In the process, they can create simple polygon representations of birds, airplanes, and other things that fly, while learning how to identify the properties of the polygons that represent them. This lesson won a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching. This webquest, created at Louisiana State University, asks students to collect data on the Titanic passengers and crew from a database, then use spreadsheets and graphs for analysis of the data. There are also links to other Titanic resources. This quest works best if students are already familiar with spreadsheets.
Students can create their own theories about which years seem most common, and why.
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