Doctor Salary vs. UPS Driver

From http://www.er-doctor.com/doctor_income.html

About how much money has a full time UPS drive made 14 year after high school?

How much money would that driver have made if s/he had been working similar hours to a doctor's schedule?

How much money has a doctor made 14 years after high school?

How long does it take a doctor to catch up with a UPS driver in terms of net income?

Fetal Echocardiograms

From http://www.chop.edu/img/cardiac-center/graph-fetal-echo-volume.html

How many fetal echocardiograms were there in 2006?

In which year were there 1417 fetal echocardiograms?

What trend do you see over time?

Food Changes Since 1909

Hoven's Index for April 9, 2010

Sweeteners (sugar, molasses, honey, corn syrup, ...) per person in 1909:  83.4 lbs.

In 2008:  136.3 lbs.

Cheese per person in 1909:  5 lbs.

In 2008:  31 lbs.

Food group consumption compared to dietary recommendations, in 2008:

Grains:  130%

Meet:  120%

Vegetables:  65%

Fruit:  40%

Source:  US Dept. of Agriculture.

 

From http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/graph_of_the_day_for_april_9_2.html 

 

Represent some or all of the information above with a graph or chart.

Popularity of Meat

From http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/graph_of_the_day_for_april_9_2.html

What type of meat was most popular in 1909?

Which types of meat have risen most in popularity?

When was beef's popularity peak?

Bicycle Riders in NYC

From http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/08/why-bike-sharing-programs-are-really-good-ideas/23278/

From 1998 to 2008, what trend was there for daily ridership?

What trend was there for injuries and fatalities?

Why do you think injuries did not increase as ridership did?

HIV Testing

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/hsu/pages/309ht.html

Are men or women generally more likely to get tested for HIV?

Which age group is most likely to get tested?

Which age group is least likely to get tested?

Women and Transplants

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/hsu/pages/313ot.html

Which organ accounts for most of the transplants?

How many women received heart transplants in 2008?

How many women were waiting for lung transplants in 2009?

Females on Organ Waiting Lists by Ethnicity

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/hsu/pages/313ot.html

What percentage of women waiting for organs are Hispanic? Black? White?

Women's Alternative Medicine Choices

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/hsu/pages/302cam.html

What is the most common type of alternative medicine used by women?

What percentage of all women have tried acupuncture?

What percentage of all women have tried herbal supplements?

Women Smokers

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/hstat/sd/pages/240cs.html

Represent some or all of the data above in a graph or chart.

Women Veterans

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/popchar/pages/109wv.html

What is the most common age of female veterans?

What percentage of female veterans are 30-39 years old?

Women Household Composition

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/popchar/pages/103hc.html

What is the most common type of household for adult women?

What percentage of adult women live alone?

What percentage of adult women live with non-relatives?

Women in Health Professions

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/popchar/pages/107edhps.html

Which health profession has the greatest percentage of minority women?

Which heath profession has 12% Pacific Islander women?

Degrees Awarded to Women

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/popchar/pages/107edhps.html

Which types of degree have had the greatest amount of change in the percentage of women receiving the degrees since 1970?

What percentage of Master's degrees were awarded to women in 2005-2006?

Median Earnings by Occupational Sector and Sex

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/popchar/pages/108wlf.html

Compare this graph to the one you did yesterday. Note any similarities and differences.

Median Earnings by Occupational Sector and Sex

Median Earnings,* by Occupational Sector and Sex, 2007

Occupational Sector	Median Earnings in Dollars
	Female	Male
From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/popchar/desc/108wlfHme.html  Represent the information above in a chart or graph. *In 2007 inflation-adjusted dollars for full-time, year-round, civilian employed population 16 years and over↑ Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American FactFinder. 2007 American Community Survey. http://factfinder.census.gov, accessed 12/04/08.
Sales and Office	31,104	42,706
Service	21,601	30,069
Management, Professional, and Related	47,457	66,676
Production, Transportation, and Material Moving	24,788	35,722
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry	17,877	23,018
Construction, Extraction, and Maintenance	35,302	37,912

Workforce Representation, by Occupational Sector and Sex

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/popchar/pages/108wlf.html

Compare this graph to the one you made yesterday. What differences and similarities are there?

Workforce Representation, by Occupational Sector and Sex, 2007

Occupational Sector	Percent of Workers
	Female	Male
From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/popchar/desc/108wlfHwr.html Represent the information above with any type of chart or graph. * Military enlistment data are from the U.S. Department of Defense; all other data are from the U.S. Census Bureau. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American FactFinder. 2007 American Community Survey. http://factfinder.census.gov, accessed 12/04/08. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Manpower Data Center, Statistical Information Analysis Center. Military Personnel Statistics, Active Duty Military Personnel by Rank/ Grade. September 2008 and September 2008 (Women Only) reports. http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/MILITARY/Miltop.htm, accessed 12/5/08.
Total	46.6	53.4
Sales and Office	62.9	37.1
Service	56.4	43.6
Management, Professional, and Related	51.2	48.8
Production, Transportation, and Material Moving	22.8	77.2
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry	20.5	79.5
Military, Active Duty Personnel	14.3	85.7
Construction, Extraction, and Maintenance	3.4	96.6

Food Security Status of Women

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa09/popchar/pages/105fs.html

Which age group has the most food insecurity?

What percentage of women aged 65 and older are food secure?

Calorie Activity

From http://www.fitness-lifestyle-solution.com/calorie-chart.html

Represent some or all of the information from the table above with a chart or graph of your choice.

Calorie Expenditure

From http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/chart-busters-calorie-chart/

Which type of exercise burns the most calories?

How many calories does a 30 minute walk burn for a 132 pound woman?

Percent who are currently dieting

From http://pewresearch.org/pubs/?ChartID=106

Are men or women more likely to be on a diet?

Which age group is most likely to be dieting?

What factors do no seem to affect dieting?

Benefits of Exercise

 

 From http://pewresearch.org/pubs/?ChartID=114

Use a graph or chart to represent the information in the table above.

Percent who exercise to stay physically fit

From http://pewresearch.org/pubs/?ChartID=107

What percentage of men exercise to stay physically fit?

What percentage of women do?

How does income affect people's exercise?

What factors make people more likely to exercise?

What factors have little or no effect?

Languages in London, Canada

From http://www.welcome.london.ca/about-us/immigrant_stats/graph6.htm

Represent the information above in a graph.

Fastest Growing Occupations

From http://math.youngzones.org/bar_graph.gif

Which occupations hve been growing the most?

Which occupations have been growing the least?

By what percent did physical therapist jobs increase?

Weather in Almeria

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/city.shtml?tt=TT004260

Compare this graph to your graph from yesterday.

In your opinion, what would be the best time of year to visit Almeria?

Average Conditions

Almeria, Spain

Month	Average Sunlight (hours)	Temperature				Discomfort from heat and humidity	Relative humidity		Average Precipitation (mm)	Wet Days (+0.25 mm)
		Average		Record
		Min	Max	Min	Max		am	pm
Jan	6	8	16	2	23	-	78	70	31	6
Feb	7	9	16	0	26	-	78	70	21	4
March	7	11	18	3	27	-	78	68	21	5
April	9	13	20	5	30	-	78	67	28	5
May	10	15	22	8	35	-	77	67	18	3
June	11	18	26	13	36	Medium	77	67	4	1
July	12	21	29	15	38	Medium	77	67	0	0
Aug	11	22	29	16	37	Medium	79	68	6	1
Sept	9	20	27	10	36	Medium	79	68	16	3
Oct	7	16	23	8	32	Moderate	79	68	25	5
Nov	6	12	19	5	27	-	79	70	27	4
Dec	5	9	17	3	25	-	77	70	36	5

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/city.shtml?tt=TT004260

Using any type of graph, choose some or all of the information above and represent it.

Gender Pay Gap

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8481534.stm

In which age groups do men and women have the most similar incomes?

In which age group to men and women have the most different incomes?

Among 45-49 year olds, what is the top hourly pay each for men and for women?

Flowers

From http://www.peakdistrict-nationalpark.info/place/haymeadows/flowers.html

Which type of flower has experiences the greatest percentage loss?

Which type has experienced the lowest percentage loss?

Which type of flower is most common?

Another Supernova

From http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~clark/SNBkgd.html

Compare this supernova light curve to yesterday's. What similarities and differences do you notice?

Come up with some ideas to explain any differences?

Supernova Light Curve

From http://lcogt.net/en/education/activity/plotting-supernova-light-curves

At time 1, what was the magnitude of the supernova?

At what time is the peak of the supernova.

Magnitude is inversely related to brightness (for example magnitude 15 is brighter than magnitude 18). What is the maximum brightness of this supernova?

Ice in the Arctic

 From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7303385.stm

In February of 1985 what percentage of ice in the arctic was 6 or more years old?

In February of 2007 what percentage of ice in the arctic was 6 or more years old?

In February of 1985 what percentage of ice in the arctic was less than a year old?

In February of 2007 what percentage of ice in the arctic was less than a year old?

What do you think this change means?

Learning Retention

From http://www.outdoorclassroom.org/train.htm

What method leads to the highest learning retention?

Which method is least effective?

How much do people remember from discussion groups?

Returning to College

From http://www.aicuo.edu/Graphs%20-%20Comparison%20with%20publics.html

Are students more likely to return to an independent or public college?

In what years were there increases in student retention?

Teacher Retention

From http://www.tsbvi.edu/Outreach/course/chapter1/section3.1.html

What percentage of teachers keep teaching after 1 year? After 5?

What percentage have left after 3 years?

Bicycle Production

From http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/no-recession-for-bicycles-makers-bikes-giant.php

In what years have there been peaks in bicycle production?

In what years were the numbers of bicycles and cars produced the most similar?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

From http://blog.cellbikes.com.au/2010/02/237/

How many kg per person per km does a person in a fuel efficient car with 3 other people generate?

If a person driving alone in a large 4WD vehicle travels 10 km, how much greenhouse gas is emitted?

Organic Acreage

From http://www.qualityinfo.org/olmisj/ArticleReader?itemid=00005964

How many acres were devoted to organic crops in 2004?

In which year were there 59,207 acres devoted to organic crops?

Describe the trend of this graph.

Heartrate Graph

From http://www.teachpe.com/gcse_health/endurance.php

What is the aerobic zone for your age?

If a 30 year old wants to exercise in the aerobic zone,  how many times per minute should her heart be beating?

A 60 year old measures his heartrate and it is 150 beats per minute. Which zone is he in?

Describe the trend this graph shows.

Teeth

From http://www.rourkebabyrecord.ca/RBR_page4.html

Represent the information above on a different type of chart or graph.

Musical Instrument Frequency Ranges

From http://www.dak.com/tutorials/eq_V2/index.htm

Which instrument can play the biggest range of frequencies?

Which instrument has the smallest range?

Which instrument has the biggest range of harmonic frequencies?

Which instrument doesn't have any harmonics?