Students will use the process skill of collecting and interpreting data. By the end of eighth grade, students will develop the abilities needed to do scientific inquiry. Students use their own observations to collect data on how much time they spend indoors and outdoors every day for 7 days.
Students record their data on a chart and then organize it in graph form.
Students then interpret their data to answer questions about how much time they spend indoors and outdoors, and to recognize any patterns in their behavior.