Olympic Graphs: Medals
Partner/Group
Which countries win the most medals?
Exploration:
Take a look at the New York Times Olympic Medal map. Play the slideshow of the graph by clicking on the green arrow. Watch the names of the countries. What do you notice about the countries? about the names of the countries? Why might the names of the countries change?
Look at the medal winners from year to year. What happens when you place your mouse cursor over a country? What can do you learn from this? Did you learn anything else about which countries participated? the names of the countries?
What did you learn from the slideshow and the year-by-year study of the graph?
What kinds of things can you learn from this graph?
Investigation: -- To think and record:
Take a look at the medal map created by the New York Times. You can click the green arrow to watch the circles grow, shrink, appear, and disappear based on which countries participated and the numbers of medals won. Using math terms, write five statements that you know are true based on this map. After each statement, explain how you know the statement is true. Indicate your name(s) on your paper. Finally, explain how how this graph helped you understand about the Olympic medal winners.
The link: http://2010games.nytimes.com/medals/map.html
For credit, include:
- Five statements using math terms (numbers, vocabulary, labels) that are true.
- After each statement, write a statement on how you know it is true
- An explanation for how this graph helped you think about the Olympic medal winners.
- Edit your statements for grammatical correctness and flow of thought.
- Your code name(s)
- Be prepared to share using your statements and the map.
Write your responses in the comment box below. You may want to copy the list to make sure you have included everything; that will help you with your presentation.
I described what the students would see (changing circles), but we were so disappointed that the interactive slideshow map did not work through our filter.
ReplyDeleteWe learned to search for alternative maps by looking for the source of the original map's data. We found the International Olympic Committee site and learned to browse through the site for information we wanted.
We wanted to know how many times different countries hosted Olympics. Kimy maneuvered the computer and Quill interpreted the information. Together we learned:
The United States hosted eight Olympics.
Norway hosted two Olympics.
China hosted one Olympics.
Mexico hosted one Olympics, in 1968. Those Olympics were 2300 meters high and caused endurance sports to have lower scores and throwing and leaping sports to have higher scores. We used an online converter to discover that 2300 meters is about 7,545 feet! Way over a mile high!
Fifth Grade
Ms. Edwards
Very cool Ms. Edwards! Hey, I saw your fish pets down on the corner, ever thought about a Shamu cam? I have one on a wiki page I did for a class, it is the actual camera from Shamu's tank at Seaworld
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