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Lesson Author
First and Last Name:	Ila and aifaa
School Name:	IPTI
School City:	JOHOR BAHRU
School State:	JOHOR

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Lesson Overview
Lesson Plan Title:
Curriculum-Framing Questions
	Essential Question	What are the importance of statistics in daily life?
	Unit Questions	How do u collect data? How do you analyze? How do you present the data?
	Content Questions	How do you group the data? Calculate the mean, mode and median. Determine the outliners if any Draw the tables pictograms bar charts, line graphs, pie charts if necessary.
Lesson Summary
¨ Statistics play quite a big role in our daily life. For this project, we would like to explain some of the importance of statistics. We choose to determine the frequency of people visiting plaza angsana, Johor Bahru through the main entrance each day. Firstly, we divide the students into 3 groups. Each group will have 8 students, 2 students for an hour. The first group will count the visitors in the morning stating from 10 am until 2pm, the second group will start at 2pm until 6 pm and the last group will count from 6pm until 10 pm. We would like to determine which time interval has the most visitors. We will collect the data for the whole week. After collecting the data, the student need to calculate the mean, median and mode. The students need to determine outliers if any and present it in a suitable graphs and charts. After finishing this project, the student will know which time has the crowdest visitors and they can avoid going to Plaza Angsana during that time.

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Student Objectives and Learning Outcomes:

Students Students collect data from three different time intervals so as to: · Compare the frequency of visitors at different time interval · Analyze the collected data · Interpret the collected data Lesson Outcomes Include: the students get the first hand experience using statistic method the students will learn how to analyze data teach the students how to think creatively and critically the students will learn how to translate the data into suitable graphs/charts. Student PowerPoint presentation objectives Ø They identify which time period has the most visitors. Ø Students observe and collect data on the frequency of visitors coming in. Ø Students analyze data and synthesize it with other information. Ø They conduct a comparative analysis of findings from the three different time period. Ø Students analyze causes of crowdedness. Student publication objectives. Ø Students discover the history of the different places they surveyed. Ø Students compare the history of the three places. Student Website objectives ¨ Students discuss about the findings of their collaborative study. ¨ Students propose a plan of action for reducing the crowdedness during certain period of time. ¨ Students learn about the crowdedness issue in plaza Angsana.

Skills developed: Ø Students develop the skill of observation. Ø Students develop the skill of leadership & organizing. Ø Students develop the skill of collecting, analyzing & presenting data. Ø Students acquire the skill of developing and presenting a slide show. Ø Students develop creative & artistic skills. Ø Students learn to collaborate and work in teams in class as well as on the Internet.

Procedures:

Plan outline: The Christ church school is situated at the bank of the river Cooum. The river Cooum has lost its original image and is no more a place for the nature lovers. Students from Class VII decide to work on the issue and propose plan of action. Students are divided into 3 groups and guided to make a comparative study of the properties and features of 2 rivers across the 2 Indian states: River Cooum in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and river Periyar in Cochin, Ernakulam, Kerala. Collaboration with students of the Choice High School of Ernakulam, Kerala is made for this project. Students of both schools exchange information and notes regarding the issue of river pollution and its impact through email and a planned interactive activity. A field trip is arranged to the location of the Rivers Cooum and Periyar. Students collect water samples and hand over to the Water analysis Dept. to conduct its analysis - in terms of temperature, dissolved oxygen and bacterial growth. Causes of water pollution in river Cooum are analyzed. Effects of water pollution are discussed -The impact on human health is seen in high incidence of Diseases, typhoid, cholera, and jaundice. An interview is arranged with a doctor for the same. Findings are discussed and presented in a multimedia project A newsletter is created to trace the history of river Cooum and compare it with its present condition. Students understand that this present condition has been brought about by man’s negligence and discuss through a website a plan of action including control measures and steps to be taken in the city to prevent further water pollution; the role of WAMP (Citizens' Waterways Monitoring Programme), STEP (Student Exnora programme) and government initiatives to clean the city waterways are also highlighted. Activities in Phase 1: Ø Arrange for collaboration with Choice school Ø Collection of water samples – of river Cooum Ø Handing it over for testing Ø Collecting the results Ø Conducting research on River Cooum and understand its original form Activities in Phase 2: Ø Obtain collaborated results of river Periyar Ø Compare the data of both rivers. Ø Analyze the data Ø Put forth a plan of action for cleaning of the Cooum river. Ø Conduct an awarness program for the school and public Ø Contact EXNORA for colloboration Ø Conduct signature hunt for the treatment of River Cooum. The learnings from the above activities will be pooled together to formulate strategies and recommendations that would be submitted to the water pollution department for immediate action. The culminating activities will include: Ø Presenting and analysis of the data Ø Recommendations and a plan of action for a cleaner River Cooum by means of a multimedia presentation, newsletter and website. Plan Details: The subject teacher will discuss the project with the Principal and with his permission, start the collaboration with Choice school, Cochin. A telephonic confirmation will be first made between both principals. This will be followed by exchange of plan outline of field visit to the rivers, collection of water sample, testing and recording findings between the subject teachers of both classes. This will be done through email. A standard plan of field visit will be finalized and agreed upon. Criteria for testing and measurement of pollutants such as temperature, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Plant Life, Animal Life (micro and macro organisms) will be standardized between both classes. Templates on the above will be created and finalized. A new email account and work-group will be created for purpose of chats, discussion and message boards. Introduction of topic is made with the essential question. The teacher explains the assignments in detail and shares the evaluation rubrics of the different assignments with the students. This helps the students to understand what is expected of them and the students are shown how to use it to guide their work.. Parent permission slips are sent out and parents are signed up for chaperoning the students. For the fieldwork the students are divided into three groups and guidelines for all activities given: details of field visit, worksheets for recording data, and rubrics for evaluation are distributed. Timelines are explained. Students start online collaboration with students of Choice School, Cochin as per guidelines. They will send their tabulated data as per the templates pre-planned and send by email to the Choice school, Cochin. Students of Choice school will also send in their findings in the template format to the Chennai students. Students can create workgroups and discuss their findings through the chat rooms of the workgroup. Students then meet a Doctor and interview him regarding health hazards caused as a result of water pollution. Groups also start to collect resource materials from the net. Students then begin working on their PowerPoint presentation. The groups then present their PowerPoint presentation to the remaining classmates. This is followed by a discussion and peer evaluation. The students are provided time for hand on practice with the Publisher Application and this is followed by the preparation of the Newsletter and Web Site. Students submit action plan to the class teacher for approval. The newsletter prepared is circulated in the school and the project website is uploaded and the link is circulated to different classes so as to enable other students to access the website. The project ends with the teacher evaluating the different assignments based on the rubrics and feedback is given to the students.

Approximately 10-15 weeks

Prerequisite Skills:

Subject knowledge: concept of Pollution Skills needed: -observation -leadership -language skill-conversing -teamwork -effective communication for collaboration -analysis and synthesis -use of computers-power point presentation-browsing the internet-email collaboration-creativity.

Materials and Resources

Technology – Hardware: (Click boxes of all equipment needed)
Camera Computer(s) Digital Camera Tape Recorder Internet Connection	Video Camera Printer Projection System Scanner Television	VCR Other: Other: Other:
Technology – Software: (Click boxes of all software needed.)
Database/Spreadsheet Desktop Publishing E-mail Software Encyclopedia on CD-ROM	Image Processing Internet Web Browser Multimedia	Web Page Development Word Processing Other:

Printed Materials:		Statistics textbook from library.
Supplies:		Guidelines to the students-safety equipment like bright clothing, pen, paper, calculator, computer and transport to plaza Angsana.
Resources:		From the webs
Others:		Trip to plaza Angsana Visit to the library. Guest speaker – Representative from plaza Angsana.
Accommodations to support different levels of learners in your classroom
	Resource Student:	Students will undertake the task of creating at least 2 slides, and 1 page each for the newsletter and website. The appointed leaders in the group will supervise them in this task. Collection of information from internet. Guiding the presentation after analysis of the data. Guiding students in all groups. Undertaking a special assignment on road safety.
Student Assessment:		Group Internet activity: assessment as per scoring rubric Group activity for students: assessment as per scoring rubric Assignment for students: assessment as per scoring rubric Evaluation for students’ presentation, newsletter and website as per rubrics
Key Word Search:		Plaza Angsana, crowdedness, shopping.