Sixth Grade Spirit Week

Sixth Grade Spirit Week

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by

DuAnne Cook

Mary Ann Eager

John Niblack

Patt Spangler

Introduction / Task / Resources / Process / Evaluation / Conclusion

Introduction

You are a member of the Student Council and are to develop daily themes for your school’s Spirit Week.

The Task

*Make up a questionaire for the student body.

*Create a frequency table based on student responses.

*Create a survey based on the most popular student responses.

*Survey students.

*Make a bar, line, and pie graph of statistical data.

*Publish and share results with the student body.

Resources

Utilize E-Mail and phone conversations

Visit other school websites and ask for ideas they used.

*www. glynn. K12. ga. us/ pwilliam

*www. gti. net/tigers/Spirit Week. htm.]

*www. msad71. net/khs/spirit/schedule. htm

Process

Follow these steps to accomplish the task:

*You will first be assigned to a team of students.

*Brainstorm with your team and identify themes for each day of the week.

*Use listed resources and visit other school websites to obtain theme ideas.

*Develope a daily theme questionaire for the student body.

*Tabulate responses.

*Create a frequency table based on the responses.

*Create a survey which asks students to rank their choices.

*Survey the students.

*Make a bar, line, and pie graph of statistical data.

*Share results with and announce daily themes to the student body.

*Make a slide presentation of your project and present as a power point

presentation.

Evaluation

*Individual Process - see rubric

*Project Evaluation - slide presentation

Conclusion

Students will have gone through the steps of problem based learning to create a power point slide presentation. This project will demonstrate students’ abilities to create a frequency table, survey, questionaire, and bar, pie, and line graphs of statistical data. Through computer driven research, students will have developed skills to extend their thinking across the curriculum and into other content areas.