Lesson Plan: Lizards Task Levels B and C: Teacher Version with Student Version

By Kaycie Maddox and Christine Franklin

Overview of Lesson

This lesson provides a secondary data set for students to explore to develop understanding of classification, a data science concept, using accessible technology called CODAP. Students will also answer statistical questions used at each of the four phases of the framework for statistical reasoning outlined in the Guidelines for Assessment in Statistics Education (GAISE) II. The use of secondary data on the habitats of lizards combined with posing questions will strengthen the opportunity for students to think and reason statistically. For Level B, students will use box plots with one quantitative variable and two categorical variables to interpret misclassification rates to determine classification. For Level C, students will use scatterplots with two quantitative variables and two categorical variables (multivariable) to interpret linear models and determine classification.

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