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| DATA ANALYZERS is a hands-on interdisciplinary
project designed to help students realize the relationship between the
topics they study and the practical application of those concepts.
Students from Monument Mountain and Rockport High School will collaborate
to design and implement a research project requiring the application of
mathematical, scientific, statistical, verbal, written, and technological
skills. Through a group project activity, the Rockport student's
will conduct transect studies. They have two meter square wooden
frames that they will literally plop into an area and study the wildlife
within them, then multiply by land area to estimate representative populations
once a month and correlate the rise and fall in population, while correlated
with the temperature changes or with the amount of vegetation. They
will document the gathering procedures with a digita camcorder and digital
camera. This recorded documentation will decribe the procedures they
used to gather the data as well as teach the Monument students about transect
studies and periwinkles, wildlife they are probably not too familiar with.
The Monument students will teach the Rockport students how to determine
the appropriate statistical procedure to use with the data they collected.
Some of the pictures, videos and narratives will be used to design a Web
Page that the two schools will mutually create. A future use of this
web page will be the ability of other schools around the country/world
to link to this page and propose projects that will be mutually developed
by both schools.
Both schools have started communicating with one another through a class that has been set up by both Miss Christman and Mrs Locke at Blackboard.com,. The course ID is PandSII. Check it out. |
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