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High Quality Lesson Design
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Intro to Design
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The DTI Model
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Asking Questions & Defining the Problem
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Data in Engineering
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Data in the DTI
Choosing Graph Types
Graphing the Data
Analyzing Data
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What
Why
How
Opener (105)
High Quality Lesson Design
>
Intro to Design
Design Challenges
The DTI Model
Engineering Design
Questioning Stategies
Asking Questions & Defining the Problem
Closer (105)
Opener (106)
Data in Engineering
>
Data in the DTI
Choosing Graph Types
Graphing the Data
Analyzing Data
Closer (106)
Graphing the Data
Connections
Now that you have an idea of how students might represent their data, let’s explore some tools students might use to help with representing data.
Directions
Share how students have represented data in your class.
What might be the advantages of representing data using paper and pencil?
What might be some advantages to using tech tools?
Look at the following tools.
Choose one to look closer at and investigate in detail.
Google Sheets / Google Forms (
Tutorial
)
Google Data Studio
(
tutorials available on the page
)
TuvaLabs
(
limited database upload
)
Create a Graph
(
step-by-step tutorial for creating a graph
)
Adobe Create a Graph
(
limited on chart type
)
Graph Maker
(includes
a walk-through process to decide which type of graph you should create based on what you are representing
)
Prepare a short presentation on your tool, including a graph you create.
Share the tool and graph.
Reflect/Put Into Practice
What are some examples of graphs students might see in your content area?
How might you help students understand the appropriate graph for the data they have?