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?

Exoplanet Light Curve

From http://brucegary.net/book_EOA/WebEOA/ExoplanetObservingAmateurs.html

This graph shows the light from a star measured over time. The amount of light goes down when the planet goes in front of the star and obscures some of the light.

About how many hours did the full transit take?

How much did the brightness of the star change from the beginning of the transit to the middle?

Stimulus Job Creation By Agency

From http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/graph_of_the_day_for_march_12.html

According to this graph, which department had the most jobs saved or created?

Which had the fewest?

Peak Force Heel-strike vs Fore-foot

From http://birthdayshoes.com/results-of-daniel-lieberman-barefoot-running-research-beginning-to-emerge

Describe the differences between heel striking and forefoot striking.

Facebook and Google

From http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/03/15/facebook-unseats-google-as-most-visited-site

What percent of the market share of visits did Facebook have in March 2009?

What percent did Google have in March 2009?

By how much did Facebook's market share increase over the last year?

Carbon Footprint of Food

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8395287.stm

Which foods leave the greatest carbon footprint?

Which of the meats listed has the least impact?

Food Insecurity in America

From http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/270

Which households are most likely to be food insecure?

What difference do you see between 2007 and 2008?

Arable Land and Polulation

From http://agoodhuman.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/environment3-resource-limitations-food/

Which areas have the highest population?

Which areas have the highest amount of arable land per person?

Has arable land per person been increasing or decreasing over time? Why?

World Fertilizer Consumption

From http://agoodhuman.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/environment3-resource-limitations-food/

Which areas were using the most fertilizer in 1960?

In 1980?

In 2000?

Which areas have increased their use of fertilizer?

Have any areas decreased their use of fertilizer?

Population and Food

From http://agoodhuman.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/environment3-resource-limitations-food/

In which years has their been more food than needed?

Does this projection show that there will be enough or not enough food in 2020?

Antibiotics

View full size here http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/antibiotics-burtin.html

After World War II, antibiotics earned the moniker “wonder drugs” for quickly treating previously-incurable diseases. Data was gathered to determine which drug worked best for each bacterial infection. Comparing drug performance was an enormous aid for practitioners and scientists alike. In the fall of 1951, Will Burtin published this graph showing the effectiveness of three popular antibiotics on 16 different bacteria, measured in terms of minimum inhibitory concentration.

For which diseases was penicillin most effective?

For which diseases was neomycin most effective?

Puppet Supplies

From http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2006/grade4/math/4math.htm

Which supply do the students need the most of?

The least?

The feathers will be divided equally among 12 students. How many feathers will each student get?

Insects

From http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2006/grade4/math/4math.htm

Which insect was the most common?

The least common?

How many ladybugs were counted?

Cooking at Home

From http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/cookingtrends/cooking.html

In 1993, what percentage of families was cooking two or more hot meals at home each day?

What about in 2001?

In 2001, what percentage of families was cooking one hot meal or less per week?

What about in 1993?

Describe the trend that this graph shows.

Percentage of GDP Spent on Health Care

From http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/category/out_of_this_wor/

Which of the above countries spends the most on health care? The least?

What percentage of their GDP do Germans spend?

Breastfeeding by Ethnicity

From http://mchb.hrsa.gov/chusa08/hstat/hsi/pages/201b.html

Which group has the highest breastfeeding rate?

Which group has the lowest breastfeeding rate?

Which group has a rate of 74.0% of children ever breastfed?

Dog Breed and Life Expextancy

Life expectancy of popular dog breeds:

Afghan Hound (12.0) Airedale Terrier (11.2) Basset Hound (12.8) Beagle (13.3) Bearded Collie (12.3) Bedlington Terrier (14.3) Bernese Mountain Dog (7.0) Border Collie (13.0) Border Terrier (13.8) Boxer (10.4) Bull Terrier (12.9) Bulldog (6.7) Bullmastiff (8.6) Cairn Terrier (13.2) Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (10.7) Chihuahua (13.0) Chow Chow (13.5) Cocker Spaniel (12.5) Corgi (11.3) Dachshund (12.2) Dalmatian (13.0) Doberman Pinscher (9.8) English Cocker Spaniel (11.8) English Setter (11.2) English Springer Spaniel (13.0) English Toy Spaniel (10.1) Flat-Coated Retriever (9.5) German Shepherd (10.3) German Shorthaired Pointer (12.3) Golden Retriever (12.0) Gordon Setter (11.3) Great Dane (8.4)

Greyhound (13.2) Irish Red and White Setter (12.9) Irish Setter (11.8) Irish Wolfhound (6.2) Jack Russell Terrier (13.6) Labrador Retriever (12.6) Lurcher (12.6) Miniature Dachshund (14.4) Miniature Poodle (14.8) Norfolk Terrier (10.0) Old English Sheepdog (11.8) Pekingese (13.3) Random-bred / Mongrel (13.2) Rhodesian Ridgeback (9.1) Rottweiler (9.8) Rough Collie (12.2) Samoyed (11.0) Scottish Deerhound (9.5) Scottish Terrier (12.0) Shetland Sheepdog (13.3) Shih Tzu (13.4) Staffordshire Bull Terrier (10.0) Standard Poodle (12.0) Tibetan Terrier (14.3) Toy Poodle (14.4) Viszla (12.5) Weimaraner (10.0) Welsh Springer Spaniel (11.5) West Highland White Terrier (12.8) Whippet (14.3) Wire Fox Terrier (13.0) Yorkshire Terrier (12.8)

From http://www.pets.ca/pettips/tips-46.htm

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

Brain Weight

From http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/dev.html

Do males of females have heavier brains?

What happens to brain weight as children grow up?

What happens to brain weight as adults age?

Why does the second graph show a downward trend, when the first graph shows that brain weight goes up during childhood?

Stages of Brain Development in an Infant

From http://parentingbabytosleep.blogspot.com/2008/12/babies-cry-it-out-over-use-of.html

At what age do peer social skills begin to develop?

Whuch developments begin before birth?

Which developments take the longest time?