Thursday, May 24, 2018

Period 6 Surveys

Skewes- Residential Choices

Wilt/Avendano/Barerra- Stress

Clementson/Quezadas- School Start Time

Sedgwick/Antonio/Giebink- Financial Education

Harden/Lesic- Athletics

Cuevas/Burns-Lewis- Mental Health

Gardner/Smith- Early Hours

Pimentel/Nieto- Phones/Video Games

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Period 3 Surveys

Freeman- Social Media

Smith- Drug Use

Cannon/Vales- Stress

Santos/Myers- Couples Age

Morwood/Bauer- Stress

Eisenmann/Fritzges- Drugs and Academics 

Klinger/Collins- Lack of Education

Ebbah/Musial- Alcohol/Drug Addiction

Badet/Teixeira- Under Age Drinking

Eagle/Haynes- Phone Addiction

Carey/Dukes- Screen Time

Sables- Sleep

Manning/Melendez- Stress

Allen/Adams- School Shooting

Faulstich- Stress

Balalio/Kupiec- Social Media

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Part 2 and 3 of Final Project

Creating a Google Form for your survey:
- Go to google.drive (make sure you are signed into your school account)
- At the top left of the screen click "New", scroll down to "More"
-Select "Google Forms" (with Purple Square)


Part II




Part III 

Choose a format to present the problem, evidence, causes, effects, and your solutions

  • Letter of Proposal for more funding
              example Letter of Proposal (sample Letter & Rubric included)

  • Feature article
                sample feature article on anorexia
                   
  • Brochure (with the following elements  in the chart Below)
                         example brochure & educational quiz (cyberbullying)
  • Infographic (digital poster)  (with the following elements  in the chart Below)
                      example infographic healthy eating
                    
                       Design your own infographic at canva.com

  • Powerpoint   (with the following elements  in the chart Below)

                           example educational powerpoint (teen temptation)


  • Video  (with the following elements  in the chart Below)

Your project should include

Problem / Issue of Concern
  • Question you are exploring
  • & Definition and / or  description of the problem
  • Who is affected (statistics)
  • reasons for choosing (why is this important to investigate)
Evidence & Research
  • Extent of problem To what extent is this an issue? (statistics)
  • Reasons / causes / influences to this problem (data and research )
  • Effects: short & long term effects on students (physical, mental, psychological, effect on community, other…)
Conclusions…
  • Next Steps …. Creative Message:Why is this information important to know? What specific steps do we need to take? Recommendations?
  • Why? What is at Risk if we don’t take these steps?
Visuals
(graphs, pictures, pie charts,statistics in large font)
Personal Reflection (on back)
  • What did you research answer? What questions are left? What would you do differently?
Works Cited list
see example
Final Examples of projects



Thursday, May 17, 2018

Final Project Outline

Whole Project Outline assignment linked here

Final Project: Design Your own Research Project (include proposal, survey, analysis of data results, informative educational piece)
Part I  

1. Choose problem  / issue of concern Sample Issues that might be worth exploring

Project Submission Form - Do NOT submit form, write down answers on a separate document and share with me  zmith@sandi.net

2. Creating Your own survey




Share with me your survey link -Due Sunday the 20th


3. EVALUATEYOUR OWN SURVEY (Monday the 21st for Period 3 and Tuesday the 22nd for Period 6) 

4. Take each others surveys on Wednesday for 3rd Period and Thursday for 6th Period. Send them to me at the beginning of the block schedule period and I will link them to the blog. We will help each other gather data.

Monday, May 14, 2018

Survey


School Survey

This survey will be used for your end of the unit project.

Quantitative vs Qualitative Data

2.  Quantitative Data vs. Qualitative Data (pre - project)
Find a team of 2
Academic Honesty Qualitative Data 
2. Collaboratively write about the data with your team Writing about Data



Quantitative data is information about quantities; that is, information that can be measured and written down with numbers. Some examples of quantitative data are your height, your shoe size, and the length of your fingernails.


Qualitative data / research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, including in the social sciences and natural sciences, and market research, business, and  non-profits.

There are a variety of methods of data collection in qualitative research, including observations, textual or visual analysis (eg from books or videos) and interviews (individual or group). However, the most common methods used, particularly in healthcare research, are interviews and focus groups.

(Google)

Examine the Data




  1. Writing about Data: Examining our own data and writing about it academically
  • Find a team of 2 - 3 & Divide the following Data Analysis Questions
  • Examine the following data on Academic Honesty Data with your team
  • Answer the questions on one document that is shared with one person on your team.