Final Project Handout
Step 1: With your partner decide on a health topic you want to investigate. Be specific.
Step 2: Use the internet to research five specific facts related to your health topic.
Step 3: With your partner create a frequency table to collect data from peers on your health topic.
Step 4: Collect data from a random sample of students.
Step 5: Create 2 appropriate graphs to display your data.
Step 6: Compare and contrast the data you collected versus the research.
Step 7: Written responses:
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A. Why is a graph important to depict data?
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B. Which of the two graphs you created best displays the data you collected?
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C. What conclusions can you make about the data you collected?
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D. What predictions can you make about the data you collected? For example, if 100 people were surveyed how would the information change or stay the same?
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E. What advice would you give the students based on the data you collected?
Step 8: Present information to class.
