Student
Work
Schools Across Washington Project
To
see our graphs:
Click
here for Question 1 - How do the students in your class get to school?.
Click here for Question 2 - How many
boys and girls are in your class?
Click
here for Question 3 - How many pieces of equipment do you have on
your school playground?
Click
here for Question 4 - In your school, which school lunch is liked
best?
Click
here for Question 5 - In your class, how many students eat hot and
cold lunch?
Click
here for Question 6 - What is the eye color of the students in your
class?
Click
here for Question 7 - Record the number of your classmates that chose
the following as their first choice to do after school.
In September and
October 2003, Mrs. McGhee's class participated in the “Schools
Across Washington” project through the Learning Space, an organization
that promotes technology in the classroom.
Step 1. We wrote a welcome e-mail message to the other schools involved,
telling a little bit about our class and school.
Step 2. We responded to some of the messages and questions that were
sent to us by other schools. We plotted out their locations on a Washington
State map.
Step 3. We downloaded a survey from the Learning Space website and surveyed
our class on a variety of questions, then submitted the information
online to the Learning Space.
Step 4. We took data from the Learning Space website on 10 other classes,
put the information into a spreadsheet using Excel, and then graphed
the information from the spreadsheet.
Step 5. We examined the data and made observations and some conclusions.
Step 6. We e-mailed the rest of the classes with our conclusions and
whether we were more alike or different than the other participating
classrooms.
We look forward to doing more of these projects!
Our Conclusions
We concluded that we are a little more different than alike compared
to the other classes we chose for our graphs. We chose 10 other 4th
grade classes beside ourselves to compare to.
As far as getting to school, we thought we were more alike in that the
majority of our students ride the bus, and no students ride a city bus.
Also, not a lot of kids ride their bikes at other schools, and we have
no one at Hedden that does.
We found were different than other classes in number of students, as
we had more students than 7 out of the other 10 schools we compared
ourselves to. We had more boys than 9 of the 10 other classes.
As far as playground equipment, we were different from the other classes,
in that we had more tetherball poles than any other piece of playground
equipment (except for Mr. Wolfe's class, who are also from Hedden Elementary!).
We had less basketball hoops than any other school.
We had more students that liked pizza for school lunch than any of the
schools we sampled. We were more alike than different in this, because
most of the schools said they preferred pizza over tacos and hamburgers.
We had far more students eating hot lunch in our class than any other
class. Our students surmised that it was because we have good school
lunches! (Mr. Wolfe's class seems to differ on that opinion.)
We had more students with brown eyes than any other color, and the classes
we sampled were evenly divided on that. Our data is due to the fact
that we have Korean, Hispanic, and African American students in our
class. We had the most with brown eyes except for Mrs. Mullings and
Mrs. Law.
We were slightly different when it came to afterschool activities. We
had the highest number of TV watchers (tied with Mrs. Clark).
