Outline

Project Outline

Fairfield Middle School is considering opening a snack store to run before and after school. The school needs help to determine the type of soft drinks, chips, candy, and cookies to sale to the students and staff.
 * How you will introduce your problem
 * The problem will be presented the student in a video commercial via youtube.com- it will present the following scenario-


 * Possible activities students need to complete to be able to do their project
 * Student will first create a wikispace page to brainstorm and layout their strategy for solving the problem.
 * The students will create a spreadsheet via Google docs. to collaborate on data collection.
 * The students will survey at least 50 students and teachers using a Google survey or a similar website for collecting data.

Lesson Plan A
 * Possible projects to demonstrate the collaborative group’s final product
 * The students will present their by creating a PowerPoint or video to display their results.
 * The students must present the measure of central tendency for their data collection and include visual display by creating a bar graph, histogram, and circle graph.
 * 1) Introduces the lesson on Statistics
 * 2) Describes the role of a statistician
 * 3) Reviews vocabulary for the unit
 * 4) Problem/project explained in brief
 * 5) Groups/teams revealed
 * 6) Student's homework assignment is to collect data which needs to be completed before they are able to work on lesson C

Lesson Plan B
 * 1) Students get a better understanding on Central tendency and finding when to use each measure
 * 2) students learn more about the calculations of Mean, Median, and Mode.

Lesson Plan C
 * 1) Students begin to work as a team on their projects
 * 2) Teacher shows the student how to use the formulas on a spreadsheet
 * 3) Final project is due at the end of class
 * 4) Peer Review