7.9 Students use statistics
to:
aa. Create and interpret
statistical tables and charts.
bb. Appropriately use measures of central tendency––mean, median, mode; understand the significance of frequency and distribution.
cc. Make conclusions and recommendations based on data analysis.

1.17aa Students represent data and results in multiple ways (e.g. numbers and statistics, charts, and tables.)
1.20 Students use graphs, charts, and other visual presentations to communicate data accurately and appropriately.
4.6bb Students demonstrate understanding of the relationship between their local environment
and community heritage as it relates to agriculture (forest management.)

1.11 c. Students support proposals as appropriate
through definitions, description, illustrations, examples from experience, and anecdotes.

2.13 Students design a product, project, or service to meet an
identified need.

3.10 Students perform effectively on teams that set and achieve goals, conduct investigations, solve problems, and create solutions (e.g., by using consensus building and cooperation to work toward group decisions.)

3.11 Students interact respect- fully with others, including those
with whom they have differences.

3.15 Students collect information about careers, and experience Careers directly or indirectly
through classroom work and community experiences.

1.14 Students critique what they have heard (e.g. oral presentation).

4.6aa. Students apply knowledge 6f local environment through actiye participation in local environmental projects.

Construct and interpret frequency tables; line plots histograms, bar graphs, and broken line graphs.

Use and find measures of central tendency in appropriate ways.

Interpret data presented in tables and statistics.

Collect and analyze data.

Organize data and present data using the best possible representation.

Understand the basic concepts of forest management and. the science of forestry.

Justify a proposal supported by data.

Create a useful and relevant product.

Perform effectively on a team. Demonstrate tactful
and responsive behavior.

Make connections between mathematics and the science of forestry through direct experience.

Complete circle sweep inventory.

Field Trip: "Adventure in the Forest,” forest observation activities.

Lesson #1:
Organizing data: frequency tables, line plots, and histograms -Parks for the people
Guest lecturer/slide presentation -"Vermont's Forests: Past, Present, and Future"

Lesson #2: Reading and constructing bar graphs
-Vermont's forested acres -Looking at forest composition - Frederick Billings purchases trees for reforestation project

Lesson #3:
Understanding measures of central tendency
-Why and how much land is donated to the Green Mt. National Forest?
-How much land do we own?
-How would this area compare to ownership in other areas in our country?

Lesson #4:
Constructing line graphs -Recreational uses of forests.
-Foresters collect data to track park visitations.
-Frederick Billings acquires land and builds his estate
- Growth of NPS

Lesson #5:
Scatter plots
-Looking for a correlation
between the dbh and saw log height of sugar maples on stand 39 (MBRNHP).

Lesson #6
Tree Sampling Simulation - how and why foresters count trees?
-Line transect
-Plot/quadrant survey -Circle sweep
-Determining best sampling method for MBRNHP inventory;

Workshop: Introducing the cruiser's stick
-Windsor County forester instructs the use of the Biltmore stick.

Field Trip/Culminating Activity I Circle Sweep Survey at MBRNHP -Stand 39 field study -Compiling data

Lesson #7:
Surveys and Samples -Designing a merchant- able trail mix

Hand-out:
1
Worksheet: 1A

Journal Entry

Worksheets: 2,3,8

Bar Graph

Worksheet: 4

Worksheets:
5,6,7

Line Graph

Group work

Hand-out:
9
Worksheet: 9A

Hand-out:
11
Worksheet:
11A

Group work:
12

Inventory
Sheets
Calculations
13, 13A, 14

Project: Hand-out
10 Worksheet: 10A
Group presentations persuasive essay

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Specified criteria

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Collection of data, class discussion

Application

Sharing data

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