Health & physical ed.
Sleep and Productivity: Analyze a Week of Sleep
Students analyze a sample week of sleep data, test their knowledge of sleep facts, sort evening habits and make a personal sleep-friendly plan.
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Science
Soil Layers and Soil Texture: What’s Under Our Feet
Students learn the layers of a soil profile, match each layer to its description, and analyze sample soil texture data to decide which soil drains fastest and holds the most water.
Career & technical ed.
Soil pH Data: Averages, Crop Match and Fixes
Students analyze made-up soil pH test results from six field plots, find averages, match plots to crop pH ranges and decide whether lime or sulfur is needed.
Technology & computer science
Spreadsheet Logic on Paper: Cells, Formulas and Ranges
Students read a printed spreadsheet, evaluate formulas by hand, write their own formulas, and design a small tracker on paper.
Science
Stream Health Detective: Analyzing Water Quality Data
Students read about stream health indicators and analyze a sample five-site data table to rank sites, calculate averages and propose causes of poor water quality.
Career & technical ed.
Strengths and Interests Map: People, Things, Ideas, Data
Students rate eight everyday activities, tally their scores into four work-style groups, and reflect on what the results do and do not mean.
Technology & computer science
Teaching a Computer with Examples: A Paper Nearest-Neighbor Classifier
Students act as a simple machine-learning program that labels messages by comparing them with labeled examples, then discuss what can go wrong.
Science
The Cell Cycle: Stages of Mitosis and Onion Root Counts
Students match descriptions to the stages of the cell cycle, then use made-up onion root tip cell counts to calculate how long a cell spends in each stage.
Science
The Water Cycle: Follow the Water
Students read about the stages of the water cycle, complete vocabulary blanks, do simple percent calculations about where Earth’s water is and trace a raindrop’s path.
Science
Weather vs. Climate: Compare Two Cities with Data
Students sort statements into weather or climate, calculate averages and ranges for two cities, and explain why a coastal city has a milder climate.
Social studies
Westward Expansion: From Louisiana to California
Students read about westward expansion from 1803 to 1849, fill in key terms, and use trail data to solve wagon-train math problems.