The Great Graph Project

DUE: February 11, 2011

You are going to choose a topic that interests you, collect data, and present your information on a graph. You might conduct a survey or record scientific evidence. For your final project, you will create a poster (or mini poster) that includes your graph and interpretations of your data (see below).

1. What is your topic? _______________________________________________________

2. How will you gather you data? (You will turn in a neat copy of your data, but this does not have to be presented on your final project.)

_________________________________________________________________________

3. What type of graph will best display your data?

_________________________________________________________________________

For your final project, you will create a graph of your data. Be sure to follow correct graphing procedures (title, labels, appropriate scale and intervals, etc.) and make your graph legible. Write a summary sentence of your data and any trends you found. For example, if your graph is a survey of favorite music, your summary sentence might be, “Most students in our class prefer country music.”

Also include the range of your data, the mean (average), the median, and the mode labeled on your final project. Remember to turn in a neat copy of the data you collected.

If you’d like to make a graph on a computer and print it out, search for instructions to use Excel to make a graph, or consider using the following website to make your graph:

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx