2.8 Drawing Conclusions
“Drawing Conclusions” (Lesson MS.AST.2.8) is a middle school agricultural literacy lesson focused on the final two steps of the scientific method—analyzing data and forming conclusions. Students evaluate experimental results, answer lab-report questions using National Agricultural Statistics Service farm data, and create their own data charts to draw and present conclusions. The lesson connects data analysis to critical thinking in science and everyday life.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- As a result of this unit the students will… Discuss agricultural research.
- Evaluate the results of an experiment.
- Form conclusions based on collected data.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 45 minutes
- Grade level
- Middle School
- Materials
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- Overhead projector/transparencies
- Poster Board
- Markers
- MS.AST.2.8.TM.A – one per teacher
- MS.AST.2.8.TM.B – one per teacher
- MS.AST.2.8.TM.C in color – one per teacher
- MS.AST.2.8.AS.A – one per student
- MS.AST.2.8.AS.A-KEY – one per teacher
- MS.AST.2.8.ASSESS.A – one per student
- Precepts
- J. Mental Health; J1. Think critically
- Key Terms
- Data; Conclusion
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- CS.05.03.01.bInterpret resource data in graphic format.
- CS.11.01.01.cDemonstrate procedures and a conceptual understanding of scientific investigation.
- NL-ENG.K-12.12Applying Language Skills
- NL-ENG.K-12.4Communication Skills
- NM-DATA.6-8.3Develop and Evaluate Inferences and Predictions that Are Based on Data
- NM-NUM.6-8.1Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships among Numbers, and Number Systems
- NS.5-8.1Science as Inquiry
- NSS-G.K-12.6Uses of Geography.