This template allows classes to create a quick classroom graph based on responses from students in the class. Students connect to Jamboard to add their name to the graph.

In this example, students are asked think about how much sleep they get on a typical night. Other questions could include:

• How many caffeinated drinks do you have have on a typical day?
• How many sodas do you drink on a typical day?
• How many children do you have?
• How long do you plan to study before taking the high school equivalency exam?
• How many languages do you speak?
• How far do you travel to get to work? To school?

After adding their information, students are asked:

• Does everyone know what each of these diseases are? (You might want to share Spanish or French translations of the names.)
• What do you know about each of these diseases? Do you know anyone who has had polio? How about rubella? Etc.
• What do you notice when you look at this graph?
• What questions do you have?
• What do you think this graph would have looked like 50 years ago? 
• What do you think this graph would look like 50 years from now?

You might also modify the template to capture other kinds of information:

• Students could capture the pros and cons of an issue, Puerto Rico or DC statehood, for example?
• Change the categories to strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree and give students a statement to consider, possible related to a topic you will introduce in that class (description of this kind of activity):
  • Humans have existed for about 3,000 years (from a prediction guide activity)
  • Community college should be free
  • COVID vaccination should be required for students in public school
  • (Some other statement that will invite some difference of opinion to draw people into conversation)

The Jamboard link above connects to a view-only file. You can copy the file to your own Drive before modifying and sharing with your students.

If you create a Jamboard that you would like to share with other teachers, please let us know.

For study materials related to data and statistics, see Being Counted: Probability & Statistics.