October 6, 2022

Thursday October 6, 2022

Today you will have a substitute teacher teaching the class.  Please follow along with the directions.  Please start the class with the circle and explain to the teacher how it works.  Please choose one student to start the circle.  Please impress the substitute teacher with how good you are about staying off your phones.

Circle: Name one thing that older adults don't understand about teenagers these days. 

After circle get back into your groups.   In groups please review the learning targets below and make sure you understand what is assigned for homework.

Learning Targets:  I Can...

1. Recognizing problems and solutions in research(Module 4)

2. Understanding Scientific Method(Module 5)

3. Differentiate Correlation and Experimentation(Module 6)

4. Explain Research design and ethics(Module 7)

5. Use Statistical Reasoning(Module 8)

Remember for homework you need to complete Modules 6, 7 and 8 for next Wednesday.  Please break these assignments into multiple days.  It's a lot of information.

Here is the Vocabulary for Unit 1.  These should all be turned into notecards.  These will be due on the day of the quiz which a date has not been determined yet.

Once everyone is up to date you will choose one person to plug their computer in to TV and show the following video link listed below on the TV.  You might have to check settings on computer for it to show on TV.  Go to settings,  click the display icon and then check the box that allows mirroring.  I know you can do this.

 This video is old but does a good job of explain the science behind Psychology. 

Zimbardo Video

After video is over please make sure everyone has a copy of the data for the activity below.  At your table with you group look over the activity and then begin.  You can use a paper copy or use the link provided below

Link to spread sheet

Please read and understand ALL directions below before you begin.  Have one person at your group check in with group members to make sure everyone understands what you are doing.

Activity:  Schools and experts have been trying to figure out how to improve student achievement at school.  Experts study all kinds of information and now you can too. You will be determining how much attendance is related to your grades using actual data from our school. The data contains 2006 Class Rank, Grade Average, and Days Absent Senior Year.  You will be examining if there is a connection between how much a student attends and how they do in school.    Even though you will be working on this with your table group, each person at your table will be keeping their own answers and will submit what you completed to me next Wednesday.  Please make sure you are in groups of at least 3-4 people.  Move to a group if you don't have enough people.   If you can't figure out how to do a particular question please ask around the room.  If no one can figure it out move on to the next question.  You will need your textbook or internet to look up what some of the terms are.

1. Your group  will need to develop HYPOTHESIS.  Do you think there is a connection between grades and attendance?

2. OPERATIONALLY DEFINE the experiment.

3.  Why would you want this study REPLICATED? 

4.  Who is the POPULATION you are studying?

5. How will you make sure that you RANDOMLY SAMPLED the data?  Hint- you won't be looking at every single line.   

6. Create a SCATTERPLOT the the data( to do this you will need to look up how to set up a scatterplot).  

7. Determine if there is a CORRELATION. 

8. Does this mean that attendance CAUSES difference in grades?

9.  Make a determination about the connection between attendance and grades.  

THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH GREAT KIDS AND BEING KIND TO THE SUBSTITUTE.