Activity #1
| Materials Needed: Tracking sheet (one per student with extras for each group) Stop watches Construction paper Markers or colored pencils Overhead transparencies Overhead Markers Overhead Projector |
Time Needed: Assignment (step one) given one full day before Steps 2-3. One full class period spent on steps 2-3. |
Step 1 - Bell ringer: List all of the ways you transport yourself from one place to another in a usual day. Have students share their results.
Step 2 - Provide Students with a tracking sheet and stop watch to track their movement and time spent in transit.
Directions: For one whole day calculate all of your transportation methods. Remember we move not just by car. Use the provided stopwatch to calculate the time and method used to move yourself from one place to another.
| Leaving From (Home) | Arriving At (School) | Method (Walk, run, skip) | Time (Min:Seconds) |
Step 3 - Group students in collaborative structures of about five to six students per group. Have students compare methods of transportation. Provide one blank tracking sheet like the one above. Have students use it to create a group data sheet, including everyone's data.
Step 4 - Provide each group with a large piece of construction paper for each student, rulers, and markers or colored pencils. Tell students that they will now illustrate their group's data in another way. Assign each group member a different type of data interpretation, (bar, line, circle graphs, plot and wisker boxes, etc.). While groups are working on their assignments, circle for questions but also gather each group's data to create a classroom wide interpretation of the methods of transportation.
Step 5 - After calculating the entire class' usage of transit, provide each group with the new data set and assign them one method to interpret on an overhead transparency. Then allow each group ample time to Explain their method of data interpretation.
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