Eat for a Lifetime: January 2014

Friday, January 31, 2014

Please Take These Surveys and Contribute to Science

Friday, January 24, 2014

Create Your Own Infographic

Now, you will be creating your own infographic using data you get from a survey. Follow the steps below:

1) Decide what you want to get data on. It should be useful, interesting information, not trivia. Here are some ideas:

School uniforms
Homework
Trash at school
Immigration
Drugs
Dating
Sports
Internet Use
Facebook Use
Bullying
Smartphones at School

2) Open Google Drive, and create a Google Form by pushing the "Create" button and then choosing "Form"

3) To learn how to use Google Form, look up a video on YouTube by searching "Google Form Tutorial YouTube".

4) The form should start by asking for the person's first name and then last name.

5) Now start asking pertinent questions about your topic. These will most likely be multiple choice. Many of the questions will be "Rank Order Scaling". See this website for more information on survey questions:

http://www.questionpro.com/a/showArticle.do?articleID=survey-questions

6) When you are done with your survey, you need to send the link to me in an email so I can put it on this blog. OR... If you have a blog, you can put it on your own blog and send me the blog's name or link.

7) After everyone has had a chance to respond, Google will put the responses into graphs for you. You will then take those graphs and put them into a Google Presentation. If you have the time, I want you to search online for other graph-making apps to use to make beautiful infographics. See informationisbeautiful.com to see all the beautiful and different ways you can present data.

8) Again, you will present your Slide Show to a group of five students.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Mid-Year Review Quiz

Click the link below to take the quiz.

https://docs.google.com/a/smbsd.net/forms/d/15LLujIMccI48BJhHReuz0q2jbT3dMaiM-QDyXkqnZ4s/viewform

Graphs and Charts Are Awesome!

This is a pie chart.

Graphs and charts are becoming increasingly common ways to present information about the world. They are a very powerful way to present data because they are visual, and we humans love things to be visual. It is crucial that you be able to understand all the different types of graphs and charts, and to be able to understand the information that they present.

With this project, you will examine a graph, understand it thoroughly, and present it in a Google Presentation.

Here are the steps you must follow:
1) Get a number from Mr. Kringel.
2) Right click the following link and choose "Open link in a new tab": http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/15/40-charts-that-explain-the-world/
3) Find the graph that is with your number. Figure out what the graph is all about. Look up any words you don't know. Make sure you understand it thoroughly. Also, make sure you understand why the information is important and relative to your life and the world we live in. Get help from me or a neighbor if you have no clue.
4) Open a new tab, then open Google Drive, and create a new Google Presentation.
5) Copy your graph onto the second slide in your presentation.
6) On the first slide, give your presentation a title and a subtitle.
7) On the successive slides, use arrows to point out the different areas of data or labels. Please use a different slide for each arrow! In other word, copy the graph onto many slides, and only use one arrow/explanation for each slide. Here's an example: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EPozrNa2PLrwXhf56VDmL3VbDreNWoi6TmEXkNKkxAQ/edit?usp=sharing
8) Copy the questions below onto your presentation, one per slide. Answer them completely and thoughtfully.

What does this graph tell us about the world?
Why is this graph important?
List at least three other implications of your chart.

For #3 above, "implications" are conclusions, facts, or information created by using information already at hand. So, you must make three conclusions about the world that are not stated explicitly on the graph.

9) Presentation

You will have about three minutes to present your chart/slide show to a group of five, who will stand around your computer.
You will want to make sure they understand your chart and the implications of its information.
You must start your presentation by showing your original, unaltered chart and giving your group about a minute to quietly see if they can figure it out.
Then you will ask the group some basic, kindergarten questions to see if they even know what the chart is about.
Then you will present the chart slide by slide.
Most important final step: Teach and discuss the implications of the data!