Scoop up a not-so-scary data lesson for Halloween

A Ready-to-Teach Halloween graphing activity

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Halloween can be a tough day to keep kids focused on your class. We hope this quick activity can make things just a bit easier for your lesson plan this Thursday. This is not a deep dive into a complex dataset, but rather just a bit of nerdy Halloween fun that would make a perfect warm up activity or bell ringer to start your class with anytime this week. The dataset itself comes from the National Retail Association's annual survey.

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Here's the activity:

1) Start by asking your students to guess how many adults will dress in costume this year across the US (its roughly 118,000,000!).

2) Then have students make guesses about the 10 most popular costumes for adults.

3) Pull up the dataset on DataClassroom and have students decide which of their assumptions about popular halloween costumes for adults were supported by data and which were not.


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*DataClassroom Founder, Aaron Reedy, may or may not be one of the 0.96 million US adults dressed as Spider-Man on Thursday night.

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