Students can use traditional art media or a program like Kid Pix to create electronic art work and perhaps a slideshow mural. Also encourage students to add poems, rhymes, and short legends they have written to the mural. Depending on the amount of computers and time available, have students work independently or in groups. Graphing the Data After three months, using a graphing program like The Graph Club, show students how to graph the tooth data and insert it into a letter. Have each student or group of students choose a data set to graph, compose a letter to their keypals explaining the data, and insert the graph they have made.
Students can also print their out their graphs and present the information to their classmates.
As a class, have students put the data from all the schools into graphs using a software program such as The Graph Club or an integrated software package. Below are examples of a bar graph and a line graph that students compiled the tooth data from schools worldwide. Call out a month and have students identify the number of lost teeth for that month. Give one student a calculator to add up all the teeth lost for a given month. Build a graph with the help of the class.