Class Challenge: Who are we?

As a class, you are going to write a survey to gather information about your fellow students. You will then give that survey to your family group in order to collect information about who you are as a freshman class. After compiling the data, your group will explore different representations of the data and create a bulletin board display of your findings.

Day 1:

_____ Identify topics that will help you learn who your classmates are.

_____ Write one survey question per pair that will help you to gather information about your topic.

Day 2:

_____ Compile the survey questions to create the final survey.

_____ Discuss how you will find out information from the people in your family group.

_____ Brainstorm different ways of displaying data

Homework: Interpreting data from a graph.

Day 3:

_____ Compile the data from your family groups

_____ Divide up the questions to make displays

Homework: Making a graph from a data set

Day 4:

_____ Choose the best way to display your data

_____ Create a poster that will display your survey question and the data graphically.

Day 5:

_____ Create a bulletin board to display your findings.

Day 6:

_____ Debrief the process and the product