Lesson Plan

Grades 6-8

Every Picture Tells a Story

50 minutes

SUBJECTS: Math

TOPICS: Economics, Doubling Time, Education, Fertility/Mortality, Migration, Land Use, Public Health, Urbanization, Wealth & Poverty, Water Use

Resource Overview

Students graph data on international demographics, environmental trends and indicators of human well-being using box plots, stem-and-leaf plots, scatterplots, histograms, and other methods.

Students create a box plot of arable land per capita for 15 countries in a math-science integration lesson

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