They say you can interpret statistics to say what you want them to. Teach your classes to recognize valid experimental results! Pupils analyze experiments and identify flaws in design or statistics. 

Concepts

controlled experiments, experimental design, conclusions, lab reports, data analysis, statistics

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Ask learners to find experimental results on a topic of interest

Classroom Considerations

• Requires laptops with Internet access for researching articles
• Builds directly from the previous lessons in a 30-part series
• The final lesson in the 30-part series

Pros

• Provides a detailed teaching guide to use throughout the lesson
• Includes opening and closing exercises complete with answer keys

Cons

• None

Common Core

HSS-IC.B.6 MP3