Big, Big Data

Lesson Overview and Teacher Lesson Plan

Essential Question:

How do companies collect and use data about you?

Students will be able to:

Explain why information about them and their behaviors is valuable to companies.
Analyze how certain types of data are used by companies.
Learn three strategies to limit individual data collection by companies.

Estimated time: 45 min

Lesson Snapshot:

Warm Up: People Products (10 min)
Create: ThreadMeister (25 min)
Wrap Up: Setting a Limit (10 min)

What you need:

blank paper

Quick Links to Lesson Resources:

Student Handout: ThreadMeister - Student Version

Lesson Quiz - Student Version - Teacher Version

Take-home resources:

Family activity

Family engagement resources

Standards Alignment:

Common Core ELA:

L.7.1, L.7.2, L.7.3, L.7.4, L.7.6, SL.7.1, SL.7.1a, SL.7.1b, SL.7.1c, SL.7.1d, SL.7.2, SL.7.3, SL.7.4, SL.7.6, W.7.4, W.7.10

ISTE:

2a, 2b, 2d, 4a, 4b, 4c

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