Created by
Velerie Strayhorn
TOPIC: Social Issues Related to Technology
GRADES: 6-7 Grade
LESSON DURATION: 120 Minutes (2 days)
SOFT SKILLS: Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving
Learning Outcome:
Given a practical situation, the students will collect data on technology usage in a 24-hour period and represent the data collected in a bar graph and a circle graph in order to make observations and inferences about the data with 80% accuracy or greater.
Standards of Learning:
6.10 The student, given a practical situation, will
- a) represent data in a circle graph;
- b) make observations and inferences about data represented in a circle graph; and
- c) compare circle graphs with the same data represented in a bar graphs, pictographs, and
line plots.
Materials:
- Quiz, Interactive notebooks, Smart Board lesson, Breakout activity (locks, UV flashlight, UV
pen, etc) - Student Packet Unit 1
- Student Packet Unit 2
Activities:
Day 1:
- The teacher will begin a discussion on technology and the usage of technology. 2. How often do you think we use technology on a daily basis? 3. Who can give me an example of some of the first technology invented? How has it changed over the years? What do you think people did before there were these technologies? Additional prompts or guiding questions might be necessary. A. Prior to the technological age, how did families stay connected? How did they connect with family/friends in another city/state? What did children do to stay connected with friends?
- The students will complete the quiz, Digital Life 101 – Got Media Smarts?
- The students will trade with a partner and use the answer key to calculate each other’s score.
- The students will discuss what surprised them most and which answers were closest to or
farthest from their own experiences. - The teacher will facilitate class discussions identifying some of the surprised as well as some
of the answers which were closest to/farthest from their experiences. - Working independently, the students will complete the, Digital Life 101 – My Media Life is
Like…, to write a simile and make a drawing of the simile created. - The class will do a walk-about to review the similes created by their peers.
- The teacher will review examples of how to create and read a bar graph. The students will
write the examples in their notebook - The teacher will provide the students a copy of the My Media – My Media Log handout for
homework. The students are to keep track of their media usage for the next 24-hours.
Day 2:
- The teacher will discuss with the class their data usage as collected on their media logs.
Which media did you spend the most time using? Which media did you spend the least time
using? Why do you think you spent less time using this media? What could you have been
doing in place of spending time with this media? What would you do if these media outlets
weren’t available to you?
2. The teacher will explain and assist students in converting their minutes to hours in order to
determining how many hours they spent with media. The teacher will record the class data on
the board. - The teacher will provide the students with a copy of the My Media –My Media Bar Graph
and color pencils to create a bar graph from the data collected on their media log. The teacher
will create a class bar graph from the data recorded on the board. The class will discuss the
number of hours spent with the different types of media and the total numbers of hours spent
on media in the 24-hour period. - The class will review and discuss how their individual data compares to the class data.
- The teacher will explain and demonstrate how to use the data from the class bar graph to
create a class circle graph. - The students will put the notes for circle graphs in their interactive notebook. The teacher will
have the students to determine the percent of hours spent on each form of media and then
determine the percent of time spent on media in the 24-hour period. The teacher will have the
student to create a circle graph from the same data used for their bar graph. - How would you feel if you were to disconnect from media for an hour? A day? A week? A
month? - As a means of disconnecting, students will be divided into groups of six to complete a
Breakout Activity which will consist of graph and technology type questions.
Enrichment/Follow-up: Students will attempt to go a day without media. They will track the data in a media log indicating what they did in place of using the media and who they were able to convince to join them in abstaining.
Assignment Rubric:
- Students will independently answer 8 out of 10 questions correctly on the quiz. Students will have checked for spelling and grammar mistakes. No more than five mistakes.
- Students will complete a simile about their Media Life and create drawing to illustrate their simile.
- Students will complete the Media Log giving a description of the activity performed on the device.
- Students will create a bar graph from the data collected.
- Students will use the data collected to create a circle graph.
- Students will participate in a Breakout activity.
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