Let's brainstorm! How can we turn the school's canned food drive into PBL?

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I see some sort of statistics problem based on how many cans have been collected so far. The class could track the total each day, predict the next few days, look for trends in larger or smaller donation days, talk about the linear functions & the line of best fit…

Create a sequences lesson with stacks of cans. Since this has space issues you can create the sequence using boxes of cans with various numbers. Have the students explore how to create the rule

As some of my other high school stats colleagues suggested you could turn this into a stats unit. BUT as you are in a grade school I would bring it down to whatever level you are teaching. If it’s really young kids you could do something super visual and create “dot plots” using the actual cans or boxes. For example you could have groups of students survey each class in the school (depending on size and safety of course) about their favorite cereal. They could use the boxes either as the actual “dots” or if there were not enough they could use them to label the X axis on your dry erase/ chalkboard and then once all the data is put together students could go up either as a group or individually and graph some of the data or answer questions based on the graphs. If the kids are a bit older you could add in mean median and mode possibly range and if they are a little older you could work in quartiles. I like their enthusiasm but I’m thinking 7 or 8 year olds won’t be coming up with equations for lines of best fit…lol. What grade are you teaching so we can give better suggestions???

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