Project-Based Instruction

Project Calendar
Week 1

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Introduce the project: Measures of center: Mean Measures of center: Measures of center: Review and assessment
Median Mode on measures of center
Play Anchor Video, assign What skews mean, how to
groups, facilitate calculate, trimmed data What skews median, how What skews mode, how
discussion about the to calculate, trimmed data to calculate, trimmed data
video.

Notes

Week 2

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Measures of spread: Measures of spread: Outliers Sample Surveys, Review and assessment
Range Standard Deviation Observational Studies, on Measures of spread,
How they skew data, how
and Experiments outliers, and normal
Measures of spread: How to calculate, what it to identify
distribution
Interquartile Range means, how to interpret
Normal Distribution
Box and Whisker Plots
What is it, when is it
How to calculate, what it appropriate to use, what
means, how to interpret is it used for

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Week 3

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Give students data from Work day Work day Work day Work day, students
the news story (anchor should be wrapping up
video story). Allow them statistics on the news
to begin working with story this day.
specific data.

Notes

Week 4

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Give students New York Work day Finish all parts of the Presentation Day Presentation Day
Times. Have them search project.
for an article that uses
statistics. Begin a
reflection on an possible
biases in their article.

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