REMOTE LEARNING SCIENTIFIC METHOD : DATA ANALYSIS

I recommend that you also pair this with my Experimental Design and Data Tables lesson, which could be done before this. Once you complete these two lessons, students will be able to design an experiment, graph it as well as analyze the data. This lesson, as always, can be done synchronously or asynchronously. I do recommend that there is some discussion at some point as a whole class or in small groups to address any misconceptions or issues.

These are formatted as student digital interactive notebook pages, where students can fill in their responses directly. This would also be perfect to have in your pocket as an emergency sub lesson plan. Students could complete this at any point throughout the year.

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Here is the breakdown for the lesson:

Title Slide

Slide 1-2: Analyzing Data:
Students are given example data tables and are asked questions about the tables.

Slide 3: Interpreting Data- Pointers
Students are given a bullet pointed list of where to look on a graph to figure out its meaning

Slide 4-9: Practice Interpreting Data
Students are given different types of graphs and have to answer questions based on the graph. Bar chars, line graphs and pie charts are included. This also includes an activity where students are given 4 graph and they must drag the correct “story” that fits each graph.

Slides 10-15: Making Data Meaningful
Mean, median, mode, range and outliers are covered. Students are given examples and required to complete easy example calculations.

Slide 16: Put it all together
Students are given 3 data sets and must calculate all the statistical measures previously covered.

Slide 17-19: Let’s Practice- Science News for students
Students are given a link to a real-life data set with pie chart. Students are then asked some questions about the graph and then must relate those analyses to its real-world meaning.