Statistics Rocks: Day 2

I. Do Now

Students will work in pairs to review key words from the previous day.

II. Review of Material

Teachers should decide how to assess students on learning of key words. Possible ideas for this include:

1) Mini-quiz of definitions

2) Mini-quiz of how to find mean, median, mode and range of real-world data

III. Nutrition and Health

Teacher may want to show the next 10-15 minutes of "Super Size Me" Video to show how healthy the main character is before he starts his fast food challenge.

If time allows, students can respond to a writing prompt with these suggested prompts:

- How does eating affect your health?

- What do you think will happen after a month of eating fast food?

- What are some unhealthy food choices on a fast food menu?

- Are there healthy food choices at fast food restaurants?

IV. Project Work Begins

Teachers should explain to students how to choose a fast food restaurant and a category of the menu (i.e. tacos, side dishes, drinks). Teacher can use Taco Bell as an example to show students different categories, for example, tacos: Taco Bell Example Teacher may also want to take time to review project requirements to make sure that all students understand task.

Then students in pair or small groups to begin work on Nutrition Project. They should determine the following for their category:

- list of total items in category with calories

- mean

- median

- mode

- range

V. Review

Teacher should circulate throughout class to make sure that students' work is accurate and to answer questions. At end of the class, students should hand in their work for teacher to check.

A brief review may be done at the end and could include,

1) Asking a student to review key words

2) Ask students to list 3 things they learned in class today