2008-2009 Home School Program

On Tuesday September 9th we held our first home school sessions for this school year. This year we have expanded our program to include all grades. I work with the middle/high school students. This month they spent their class sessions learning about data. The lesson covered types of variables and categories of variables. We collected data that included nominal, ordinal and numeric variables. Our home school student taught me a lot about our classroom and Hands On Hall.
Some interesting facts we all learned:
270 wooden slats on the all of the window blinds in the classroom
72 tiles per section, on the Wharf Of Wonder wall
35 goggle pegs on the wall in the classroom (one is missing)
12 parents and 14 children in the Wharf Of Wonder
27 computer or TV monitors in Hands On Hall

Next months class session will take data collect a step further. Using electronic data collection equipment; studnets will take data on things that can not be seen. The end goal of this years middle/high school class is to learn about data, data collection, graphing and the connection between science and math.