Measuring Ourselves

Station 2: Measuring Ourselves-Height and Foot Size in InspireData

• Give the title of the module/station: Measurements
• Who was in your group: Robin & Caroline
• A (group) description of what the station was: This station was a way of measuring different parts of the body and inputting the data in to Inspire data to compare with graphs.
  
• A (group) description of what your group did: In the station we measured our height, wingspan, and foot length of ourselves and five other students in the class. Then we made graphs in the Inspire Data comparing the foot size to the height and the wingspan to height.
• What did you was an individual do? I helped measure the other students in the class and our groups. I also helped measure my own body parts so I was apart of the data.
  
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• This is a screen shot of the data table we used to make the graph below. We put in information that we collected from the different measurements.

Wingspan vs. Height

• This graph shows us that their is a relationship between wingspan and height. The wingspan and the height should be about the same. Also from this graph you can see that the taller the person is the longer their wingspan will be. When looking at the graph you can see if the wingspan is more to the right then the height is higher on the graph.
  

Foot Length vs. Height

• This graph shows us that there is a realtionship between foot length and height. The taller the person is the longer their foot length will be. When looking at the graph you can see this by if the foot length is farther tot he right then the height we be more towards the top.

• What did you like about this activity, if you were the student? What about if you were the teacher?: I liked that fact that I was using real data that I collected from my peers. If I were a teacher I would also like this activity because the students are working on their measurement skills. As a teacher I might have the students also create their own graphs because they have to learn those skills also.
  
• What did you not like about this activity, if you were the student? What about if you were the teacher?: If I were a student I would not like the fact that the data is not very spread or or unique to the graphs are not dramatic. If I were a teacher the only thing that I would not like is maybe this station would be interrupting the other groups when collecting data.
  
• What were the most interesting and/or surprising parts of this activity?: The most interesting parts of this activity was seeing the actual class data into a graph. It was also interesting learning how to use Inspire data.