1. LESSON 2: STICK FIGURES Unit 1
HAVE YOUR DATA DIARY OUT TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
HOW MANY OBSERVATIONS DID YOU MAKE?
WHERE DO YOU LEAVE THE MOST DATA TRAILS?
WHAT COULD SOMEONE POSSIBLY LEARN ABOUT YOU IF THAT PERSON HAD ALL OF THIS DATA?
WARM UP

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Students will learn how to observe, record, and organize data through a sorting activity and gallery walk in order to see how data may be organized for particular purposes.

3. STICK FIGURES ACTIVITY
Collect data on a strange group of people who appear to be completely two-dimensional
Record as much information about these people as possible
Organize your information in any way you choose
MATERIALS MANAGER:
Pick up 1 stack of cards for your team from Materials Table

4. ACTIVITY TIMELINE Individually: Come together as a team:
select 1 card from your team’s pile of 8
record all possible information in your Data Science (DS) journal
Come together as a team:
share your individual findings
Materials Manager picks up a poster paper and markers
On poster paper, organize the data into a visual
represent the data from ALL 8 cards

5. STICK FIGURES GALLERY WALK
Materials Manager:
returns markers
pick up a stack of post-its for your group
Student groups will rotate around room to view other teams’ representations
Use post-it stickies to write a comment or question
add it to the poster to provide feedback

6. STICK FIGURES DISCUSSION
Discuss in your teams - prepare to share:
Were the data organized in similar ways?
How were the data organized differently between teams?
What information was available on each card?
Which representations made it easy to see what (or who) were observed? Which made it easy to see whether different stick figures had different characteristics?
Which representation makes it easiest to see which stick figure is tallest?
If you were handed a blank stick figure and knew only the person’s name, could you fill in the rest of the information?
1 Describe some similarities between the team posters. 2 Describe some differences between the team posters.