Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Plotting Your World Name: Mr. Brandon Amaral

Content Area: Mathematics I Grade Level: 9-12
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
Mathematics I S-ID 1, 2, 3
1. Represent data with plots on the real number line (dot plots, histograms, and box plots).

2. Use statistics appropriate to the shape of the data distribution to compare center (median, mean) and spread (interquartile
range, standard deviation) of two or more different data sets.

3. Interpret differences in shape, center, and spread in the context of the data sets, accounting for possible effects of extreme
data points (outliers)

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

Students will be able to:
 Create plots from sets of data.
 Read and compare information from multiple plots.
 Contextually interpret differences in plots as they apply to the data represented.
Unit Summary:
Students will learn key meanings and applications of descriptive statistics, particularly in the context of dot plots, histograms, and box plots. Students will apply these
statistics in creating, reading, and interpreting plots. Students will understand which plots are most appropriate for displaying particular data sets, and use this knowledge
to plot and interpret their own unique data sets recorded from their everyday lives.
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:
Survey Webercise Poster
Graphic Organizer Essay
Quiz
Quick Write

Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities:
When presented with a set of (Assessments): Students engage in interactive lesson in the classroom by interacting with questions posed by the teacher and
data, students will be able to Accurate completion of evaluating information in the digital presentation. Students complete guided notes as they progress through the
construct an accurate box guided notes lesson, including creating plots, reading plots, and interpreting plots.
plot incorporating minimum,
maximum, median, upper
quartile, and lower quartile.
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
After generating digital box Correct completion of Students visit the provided six websites and digital tools. Using the information they find on each website,
plots representing given data Webercise activity, plus students critically respond to prompts about creating plots, reading plots, and interpreting plots.
sets, students will accurately insightful argument on the
describe 5 points presented nature of outliers.
by the plot.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
After reading through the Sufficiently supported Divide students into pairs. Student pairs will watch a summative Khan Academy video comparing and
provided digital resources, arguments on each cell of a contrasting the strengths and applications of Dot Plots, Histograms, and Box Plots. Student pairs will complete an
students will be able to 5x3 Compare/Contrast Matrix open-ended Compare/Contrast Matrix analyzing these plot types. The Matrix must include five dimensions on
compare and contrast five which the plot types are compared.
dimensions of Dot Plots,
Histograms, and Box Plots to
determine which type of plot
best explains data
characteristics, including
center and spread.
Unit Resources:
http://www.alcula.com/calculators/statistics/box-plot/
https://www.uen.org/rubric/
https://b.socrative.com/teacher/
Useful Websites:
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/summarizing-quantitative-data#box-whisker-plots
 Overview of Khan Academy’s resources related to box plots
http://www.imathas.com/stattools/boxplot.html
 Digital tool to generate box plots from scratch
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/data-distributions-a1/summarizing-spread-distributions/v/range-variance-and-standard-deviation-as-measures-of-dispersion
 Khan Academy overview on comparing and contrasting strengths of the three main plot types.