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Shodor Interactivate: Misleading Graphs Lesson PlanShodor Interactivate: Misleading Graphs Lesson Plan
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Shodor Education Foundation
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4th - 8th
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Math
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1500L
Lesson Plan

Shodor Interactivate: Misleading Graphs

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This instructional activity will challenge students to think creatively by having them design and build water balloon catchers from random scrap materials, while requiring them to take into consideration a multitude of variables including cost, maintenance, total capacity, etc. After completing their water balloon catchers, students will collect data based on the performance of all catchers designed by the class. Students will then construct at least two bar graphs to be used in a commercial advocating the purchase of their group's catcher.

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Concepts

data collection, mean, median, mode, probability

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boxplot, pie graph, shodor: misleading graphs, bar graph, histogram, line graph, water balloon catchers

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
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