Today, I'm taking a break from blogging about college teaching and sharing a mini-lesson I created for elementary school-aged students. I am sharing my activity here because I bet I'm not the only college instructor who has been asked to do community outreach with kids, be it at local STEM festivals, children's museums, or elementary school career exploration days. Feel free to take this idea and run with it. I taught this lesson as part of the Wonder Time series at my local children's museum,  Erie Children's Museum  in Erie, PA. My friend, Claire, is a former stats student and former STEM teacher at my kids' school. She is the current education director at the museum. PS: I love my small town life, and the museum is just a few blocks from my workplace.  A description of the Wonder Time series  My question was, "How do number experts predict the future?" As I put together my lesson, I was inspired by all the different ways instructors are already usin...