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Science Lesson Plan – Korea
Maria Montalvo
Objective: After completing this activity, students will be able to compare, graph, and analyze data from the United States and Korea.
Students will:
Collect daily temperatures
Average daily temperatures
Share average temperature data with Korean students
Obtain daily average temperatures from Korean Students
Make line graphs to compare daily temperatures in Korea and Macomb during 5 days
Analyze data
Draw conclusions from data
Introduction
Explain to students that we will collect data about our heights and weather. We will then send this data to a school in Korea. Korean students will also be collecting data about their heights and daily weather temperatures. We will then graph these data, analyze, and compare the results.
Show a map of the world and have students locate Korea. Show students a larger map of Korea, and locate Seoul (Gwanju), Korea is located. Ask students to share anything they know about Korea.
Using information students know about Korea, and information gained by looking at the map, ask students to form a hypothesis about the temperatures at this time of the year in Seoul (Gwanju), Korea. Ask, “Do you think temperatures are similar, warmer, or cooler than our temperatures at this time of year?”
Tell students that we will take the temperature at the beginning of their class period each day. Students in Korea will do the same. After two weeks of data collection, we will send our data to the science teacher in Korea, and the Korean science teacher will send her students’ data to us.
Show students examples of bar graphs and line graphs. Ask students, “Which type of graph would best show the results of our daily temperatures?” (Line graph)
Show students an example of a multiple line graph. Tell students, “Using both sets of data, we will make and analyze line graphs to compare daily temperatures in Seoul (Gwanju), Korea and Macomb, Illinois” (see student instructions).
Name _______________
Class period _____ Date _____
How’s the Weather in Your
Part of the World?
Purpose:
To collect, graph, and compare average daily temperatures from Macomb,
Illinois and _______, Korea during 5 days.
Problem:
How will the average daily temperature in Macomb, Illinois compare to
the average daily temperature in __________, Korea?
Hypothesis (write your educated guess in a complete
sentence):
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Procedure:
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One thermometer per group will be placed outside during the next 5 days.
At the beginning of each period, you will each read your group’s thermometer. Write down the temperature you read and
bring it back to the classroom.
2. Average your group’s temperatures and
record in the data table 1.
3. Repeat for five days.
Data Table 1:
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Daily Temperatures during Five Days
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Collect data from all class periods. Average the temperatures for each day and record in Data Table 2.
Data Table 2:
Average Daily Temperatures in Macomb, Illinois
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Use the data to make a line graph.
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Record average daily temperatures from students in Korea and record in
Data Table 3.
Table 3: Average
Daily Temperature in ________. Korea
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On the same graph made for Macomb data, make another line graph for
Korean data. Use a different color
to draw the line.
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Make a key showing colors used for each country’s set of data.
Analysis and Conclusions: Write complete sentences to answer the
following questions.
1.
Compare the daily temperatures in Macomb, Illinois, and __________,
Korea.
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Do you think this would be true during all weeks of the year? Explain your answer.
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3.
Describe two things you could do to improve this experiment.
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