Authentic+Instruction

﻿Licensure Area: Special and Middle Grades Education
Title and Audience: Graphing and Interpreting Data--Grade 6 Science

Objective: SPI0607.Inq.3. Interpret and translate data in a table, graph, or diagram

Materials: Computer with internet access, Powerpoint, and Excel (one computer per group)

Description: 1. Students will work in groups of three or four to do research on a species extinction using [|IUCN Red List] and find graphs including data on the findings of scientific experiments or observational studies. 2. Students will create a short Powerpoint presentation explaining the relationships that they discovered in their research. They will determine how one aspect of an experiment affected another. 3. Students will perform their own observational study regarding the population of a certain animal and record data on their results in a table. 4. The table they make will be put into Excel and then make into a graph. 5. Students will present their graph to the class and explain their findings.

Scaffolds: The teacher will help students narrow down their research to credible sites. The teacher will assist in the use of Excel to make graphs. The teacher will encourage students to pick a topic that they're interested in. The teacher will take students outside during a class period to record the population of animals on school grounds.

Technology to Support Authentic Instruction: <span style="color: #0600ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will use [|www.iucnredlist.org] to research their animal of choice. <span style="color: #0600ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will use [|www.google.com] to find example graphs to analyze. <span style="color: #0600ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will use Powerpoint to present their research to the class <span style="color: #0600ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will use Excel to present the results from their own experiments to the class.