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Lesson overview
Lesson overview
Watch the video for an introduction to the lesson.
Activity 1 - Draw your own selfie
Activity 1 - Draw your own selfie
During this lesson, we are going to look at different ways you can visually represent data to tell a story.
Task 1
Task 1
You are going to design your own selfie as a way of representing your personal data.
Get a blank piece of white paper, 20 by 20cm square and some coloured pens and or pencils.
Follow the instructions in the embedded Google Slide.
Note: This activity was adapted from How to draw your own selfie — using your personal data by James Freitas on the Ideas.TED.com website.
Task 2 - Reflection Questions
Task 2 - Reflection Questions
Answer the following questions in your exercise book or folder:
If you gave this selfie to another friend not in your class, would they be able to understand it? What else would they need to interpret your picture?
How long did it take you to create this selfie? Would taking this amount of time be reasonable every time you wanted to produce a graph?
Activity 2 - Data postcard
Activity 2 - Data postcard
Dear Data was a year-long project by Giorgia Lupi and Stafanie Posavec, award winning information designers, who drew different data information about themselves on postcard size cards and posted them to each other.
Task 1 - Learn more about the Dear Data project
Task 1 - Learn more about the Dear Data project
Watch the Big Bang Data: Dear Data video.
Visit the Dear Data Project Blog website to read an explanation of the project, see some examples of data postcards and some more videos.
Big Bang Data: Dear Data
Duration: 3:18
Task 2 - Creating your own data postcard
Task 2 - Creating your own data postcard
Now it’s your turn to create a data postcard. It’s best if you do this over a few days so you can collect enough data.
Choose the type of data you want to collect and represent. Some ideas of the types of data you could collect for your postcard include:
How many times you check your phone and for what reason. Example: checked the time, checked a text message, checked Instagram, etc
What you do with your day and how much time you spend on different activities.
The different types of appliances, technology, and machines you use throughout your day. Example: electric toothbrush, electric razor, kettle, sandwich press, toaster, microwave, television, etc.
Create your postcard.
The usual size of a postcard is 148mm by 105mm (A6 size) and is thicker than normal paper.
You can make your own postcard by grabbing an old cereal box, cutting it to size and then gluing paper on both sides.
Since your audience is only receiving the postcard, you need to include a legend that explains your symbols and colours. A legend lets the reader interpret your data.
Put your legend on the side of the postcard where the address goes.
Then draw your graph on the other side where there is more room.
Complete your postcard.
Share your data postcard with another person. You could take a photo of it and share it this way, or you might want to post it!
Activities too easy?
Activities too easy?
Note: The same two extension activities are shared across Lessons 1, 2 and 3 as they are both significant pieces of work.
Complete an activity on creating different types of graphs using the Creating different types of graphs activity Google Doc.
Click on the link to open the file in a new tab.
Click on the Use template button to create a copy for you to use.
Access the Stage 5 Mathematics – Week C unit on Single variable data analysis. This unit covers the concepts of: mean, median, mode and range, quartiles and interquartile range, box plots and standard deviation.
Handing in your work
Handing in your work
Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!
Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:
Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).
Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.
Make sure you keep any hand written work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.
Student reflection
Student reflection
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