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Ice Model

by

Tim McMahon

Introduction

This week the students will be putting everything they learned the past two weeks together.

The Task

By the end of the week the students will know:

How to gather current data from the Mawson Weather Station.
How to use this data to compute the mean, median, and mode.
How to use the above data to create circle, bar, and line graphs.

Resources

The main resources you will use for this task is the information you received from Mawson Weather Station, your math skills, if you would like to see an example click here for bar graph, or click here for line graph, calculators, and applicable worksheets. For more information on graphs click here.

The Process

To accomplish this task you will need to complete the following:

Split students into groups of four.
Allow the students equal time at the computer in order to gather their data of the Mawson information and conversions.
Give the students the opportunity to show off what they have learned in group presentations.
Give the students full artistic mobility to show what they can do!

Learning Advice

Do not hold the students back and let them create.

Evaluation

They will be graded on the accuracy of their measures of central tendency, the accuracy of the graphs and why they chose each graph, and the overall presentation. They will also be graded on their group participation.

Conclusion

By the end of this week, the students should be comfortable with everything learned in the unit and have something they could put into their portfolios.

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