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====   ==== =PROJECT : SCATTERPLOTS = =DONNA HENSLEY = = = = = = =  **Topic of your Unit:** **__Scatterplots__ ** = = =The project idea-real world connections, authenticity  –__Students must be able to distinguish between categories and determine if a relationship exists, and if so, what kind .__   = =Concerns, questions, desired feedback: = =<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: red; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">**Visual Ranking-** =
 * Summary of ideas for overall project:** ** __Students will determine the correlation between data. Students will research and display data in Microsoft Excel as a scatterplot.__ **
 * <span style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Subject and grade level: **<span style="COLOR: #171111; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"> __**  Algebra 1, 8th grade  **__
 * <span style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Curriculum Framing Questions: **
 * **<span style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Essential ****<span style="COLOR: #1f1919; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">– ****  Is there a connection?  **
 * **<span style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Unit ****<span style="COLOR: #1f1919; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"> –  ****  How do you determine the line of best-fit?  ****  How do you create linear models?  **
 * **<span style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Content ****<span style="COLOR: #1f1919; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt"> – ****  How do you graph data in a spreadsheet?  **
 * **Students will define the relationship of items between linear and non-linear on the [|Visual Ranking]site.**
 * **This will be in the introduction of the lesson.**


 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: red; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Seeing Reason **
 * **Students will brainstorm data and determine if there is a correlation. Students will use the [|Seeing Reason Tool] to come up with ideas of positive, negative, and no correlation types.**
 * **List concerns you have using Seeing Reason in your unit.**

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 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: red; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Showing Evidence **
 * **Students choose between various topics of interest, and research data. Data will be displayed in Microsoft Excel as a scatterplot and uploaded to Donna Hensley's wikispace.**
 * **List concerns you have using Showing Evidence in your unit.**