Tasks

Students will be asked to do the following: Heterogenous groupings will benefit students with special needs. Students with special needs will benefit from the group interaction and the guided practice with modeling. The teacher will ask the special education social studies teacher for possible question topics that correlate with recent or concurrent units of study. ELL students will also benefit from the group interaction, guided practice, and modeling. They will be paired with another student when taking onlline surveys by classmates to aid comprehension. GATE students will add additional information to their PowerPoint slide to defend their graph choice.
 * 1) Bring to class a survey/poll question that includes a graph
 * 2) Create various graphs from existing workbooks to learn about the various types of graphs that are available and see how certain graphs work best for certain data groups.
 * 3) Take an online survey created by the teacher. The results of the survey will be put into a table in Excel and then graphed.
 * 4) Create an online survey on a self-selected question about a historical or current events topic.
 * 5) Create a paper collection sheet in Excel for responses from friends and family members without online access.
 * 6) Give their opinion on classmates's survey and collect responses to their own survey through encouraging family and friends to take their online survey or by collecting their response on their paper collection sheet. They need to collect at least 50 responses.
 * 7) Take the results from their survey and create an Excel worksheet with a table and graph.
 * 8) Working in a group, students will take their worksheet and put it into a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation will also include the steps in the process and what they learned by participating in the assignment.

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