Statistics Rocks: Day 6 to Presentation

Project Development

Once students have completed the following tasks, students can begin to create their PowerPoint presentations or poster presentations.

For their fast-food restaurant, students must have:

Calculated mean, median, mode and range of calories for their category of food.

Created the most unhealthy meal (with calories and total calories) at their restaurant.

Created scatter plot comparing Fat (x) and Calories (y)*.

Described the correlation and trend of data.

List of web sources utilized.

Teachers may want to have students create scatter plot on graph paper and scan or perhaps even ask students to write in Excel and graph for display in a PowerPoint.

Presentation

Teachers should evaluate students on the PowerPoint or poster project utilizing the rubric provided. This presentation can be done using differentiated methods.

1) Scenario 1: Students present to whole-class one at a time. Students who are watching take notes and ask questions to presenters.

2) Scenario 2: Posters are posted throughout the room, and a walk-around model is utilized. Students should take notes on each students' poster and report back as a whole class on findings.