Ms. T also led a Slow Reveal Graph activity. She showed us a graph and asked, “what do you notice?” and “what do you wonder?” We had some great ideas that we shared.
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We have been learning about…and fascinated by… simple machines. To share our learning, we will be creating Rube Goldberg machines that include three simple machines. We’ve designed blueprints, have begun construction and will be recording revisions made along the way. It’s been a great opportunity to use our Creative & Critical thinking! We enjoy hands-on learning so we are loving the activity. What is data? How do we collect data? Two questions we didn’t know the answer to until this week. It turns out data is everywhere! In fact, we’ve been collecting data while recording observations during our recent Science experiments and tallying students on Walk to School Wednesday. We just didn’t realize that that was data collection! To explore further, Ms. T led us through an activity that involved measuring and recording our pulse during different types of physical activities (sitting, walking, jumping). We then compared our data and noticed that our heart rate changed with different kinds of exercise. Ms. T also led a Slow Reveal Graph activity. She showed us a graph and asked, “what do you notice?” and “what do you wonder?” We had some great ideas that we shared.
More parts of the graph were gradually revealed… and we discussed the new information and how our thinking had changed. We asked lots of great questions as we tried to make sense of the data on the graphs. (To learn more see Brian’s post) Our next activity involved similar questions – what do you notice? and what do you wonder? – as we examined a scatter plot graph. We noticed that the horizontal and vertical parts of the graph (the axes) were labelled and that there was a title. We used that information when creating our own scatter plot graphs. We’ve loved learning about data collection and are looking forward to learning more in the next few weeks!
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