Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!
Inference for Matched Pairs
Provided by: Skew the Script |Published on: June 22, 2023
Lesson Plans Grades 9-12, ap-college
Synopsis
- This statistics lesson plan is useful for teaching students about "cherry-picked" data, how to create a randomized chart with a matched-pairs structure, and how to calculate a one-sample t-interval.
- This lesson displays how "cherry-picked" data has been used by climate skeptics, the usefulness of a randomized chart with a matched-pairs structure, and how to analyze t-interval calculations of a data set.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Mathematics
Authors: Skew the Script
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This lesson plan has an excellent discussion question about popular media's coverage of climate change.
- This lesson plan shows the importance of statistical literacy.
- The resource includes a video with accompanying guided notes, a student handout, and a teacher's key.
Additional Prerequisites
- Teachers and students may create a free account for unlimited access to the materials.
- Students need to know what an arithmetic mean is.
Differentiation
- This lesson plan could supplement a classroom discussion on which organizations are fueling climate change denial and what their motivations are.
- This lesson plan could enhance a classroom discussion on the American government's effectiveness at arming children with statistical, scientific, and mathematic literacy.
- For the open-ended questions in this lesson plan, it may be wise to go over them as a class in order to analyze comprehension and address misconceptions.
- This lesson plan could augment a classroom discussion on the importance of scientific expertise when discussing climate change.
- The resource provides guidance on how to align the lesson with the AP Statistics course.
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