Learning goals: Teacher Facing Compare and contrast (orally) a distribution of sample means and the distribution of the population. Generalize that an estimate for the center of a population distribution is more likely to be accurate when it is based on a larger random sample. Interpret (orally and in writing) a dot plot that displays the means of multiple samples from the same population. Full lesson plan (warm-up, activities, synthesis, cool-down prompt) from 7.8 Probability and Sampling, Grade 7.