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Depicting and Analyzing Data: Enriching Science and Math Curricula through Graphical Displays and Mapping

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.06.01

Unit Guide

Using Graphical Displays to Depict Health Trends of America’s Youth

Marisa Ann Asarisi

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Teacher Resources

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;107/2/423

Teachers can use this site to extract data on television and kids and the effects of media on students.

http://aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/children_and_watching_tv

The effect of television on kids.

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

Demographic data and country ranking of US data.

http://children.webmd.com/news/20040702/video-games-tv-double-childhood-obesity-risk

Video games effect on obesity.

http://www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/adfactsheets/whatsup_nutrition.htm

Adolescent and nutritional information. Some food statistics from Washington state.

http://www.fitness.gov/home_resources.htm

President’s Council on physical fitness and sports.

http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/health01/papers/hc01_p01a/hc01_p01a8.jpg.

Individual state smoking data.

http://www.incompetech.com/graphpaper/lite/

This site allows you to print graph paper to specific size specifications. A great idea for differentiating instruction.

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=12&DocID=34

A teacher created adolescent sleep lesson plan.

Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information . 2nd. Cheshire: Graphics Press LLC, 2001.

A text on the history of graphing.

Student and Teacher Resources

Houghton Mifflin Science. Discovery Works . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.

A science text book used by New Haven Public Schools that can reinforce the concepts being taught in this unit.

www.kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition

A list of student and teacher friendly and interesting articles on weight, nutrition, and health.

http://www.mcwdn.org/Graphs/TabGraphMain.html

Students can quiz themselves on reading different types of graphs.

http://www.mypyramid.gov/pyramid/index

Government website for students or adults on the food guide pyramid.

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

A student friendly government site that is great for students to develop computerized graphs.

http://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/res/res-homepage.htm

NSF sponsored graphic resource site describes types of graphs and when to use them. Also provides a flow chart to determine exactly the correct graph.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/20080223_REVENUE_GRAPHIC.html

An interactive and interesting movie graph that students can view a more complex graphs.

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

A student friendly site to graph data.

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/

Students can use their own data or view graphs already made to easily create online graphs.

http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/power/ch9/using/using.htm

This site shows students and teachers different types of graphs and how they are used. The site uses statistics that students would enjoy and understand and shows graphs that are not well done.

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/bargraph/

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/BarGraphSorter/

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/BoxPlot/

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/BoxPlotTwo/

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/CircleGraph/

http:// www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Histogram/

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/MultiBarGraph/

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/PieChart/

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ScatterPlot/

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/StemAndLeafPlotter/

Graphing programs and activities to create and view graphs.

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/site/c.huIXKjM0IxF/b.2417141/k.C60C/Welcome.htm

A website for students and teachers about sleep habits and information on improved sleep.

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