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.
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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?
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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.