Class: Eighth Grade Mathematics
Unit: Probability and Statistics
Time: 1 Period (68 Minutes)Lesson: Click here to access the lesson plan and the supporting documents.
After completing this lesson, students will be able to determine the mean, median, and mode for a data. They will also be able to draw conclusions about a data set and recognize patterns in data set. In addition, students will have to make and test hypotheses in this activity, which reinforces what they learn in eighth grade science. As a result, this lesson is interdisciplinary in nature. If other teachers decide to use this lesson then they should consider reaching out to the eighth grade science teachers in their respective schools. It is possible that an interdisciplinary assignment could be developed as an extension to this activity.
The best part about this activity is that it is fun. Students tend to enjoy making predictions and testing them to see if they were right, and this is at the heart of this activity. Thus, when implementing this lesson teachers should find it relatively easy to get students engaged in the learning experience.
Also, this lesson is designed for a sixty-eight minute period. However, it could easily be broken up into two shorter lessons. One lesson could focus on the Grab Bag Activity and the other lesson could focus on the Grab Bag Extension Activity.
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