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Chapter 9-Interpreting Graphs
Most of my resources come from the text. Pick and choose the Investigations and Think and Discuss activities that you feel will be relevant for your class/students. 9.1 Graphing Change over time -Notebook Doc-must use Smartboard Software. -Use the Graph paper below or use your own for students [|Free Graph paper]

Use the current Election as your final assessment for this part of the unit. Have the students create surveys for the 6th, 7th and 8th grades. Place the Candidates names on the survey. This survey should go home to parents asking the parents to anonymously select the candidate choice. Once all the surveys come back have the class broken up into Four different groups-Democrat, Republican, Independent and Undecided. The data will be used to create a chart and a graph. Each group will create a poster with information on voting and the parties they were given. Applications to Use:
 * Project 1:**
 * Mac: Keynote, Pages, Garageband, Imovie, Powerpoint**
 * PC: Powerpoint, Word, Microsoft Publisher, Excel**

Clear the classroom. Select a student as the recorder, select another student as the counter/timer. Using a timer, time the length it takes each student to walk across the classroom or how many steps it takes to walk across the classroom. Together place the date in an excel spread sheet. Save it. You can do a couple of things with the data, you can use the data to plot or you can create a graph. Let the student decide. But they should keep in mind that they not only have to do the graph, but they are to creat a chart, everything should be labeled and they should give a written response of what they see and how it help them to see the story behind the graph.


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