Grade 7 interdisciplinary home project

Grade 7 interdisciplinary Project: Math and Humanities

Exploring Different Types of Graphs

Objective: an investigation on a variety of aspects of life in our society and on the representation of results using graphs.
Area of Interaction: Community and Service
Work organization: Individual project
Assessment: Math and Humanities

Expected products:
1) a poster with 6 types of graphs
2) a written report
3) an Oral presentation (when you are back)

Process:

1. Comparative graphs:
- Choose two countries you would like to compare and three cultural or social issues (education, salary, health, unemployment, human rights etc).
- Find data concerning the issues you want to compare.
(Use links provided in the resource document attached, resources available at home and on the web)
- Build a chart to represent your data (see resources for examples).
- Create three separate graphs showing your findings. Choose the most appropriate graphs for each case.
- label the graphs properly.
- Justify your choice in your discussion.

2. Graph illustrating changes over time:
- For one issue in one of the countries (literacy, education, salary, unemployment etc), find how things have changed in time(for example, past 50 years ).
- Put all information in a table format.
- Produce a line graph that illustrates results of your research.
- In your discussion:
a) explain why you think your graph is suitable for this kind of information
b) What conclusions can you draw about the development of this issue? (Is it a
positive or negative tendency? What could be the reasons for this?)

3. “Did you know that…”
- Make two graphs displaying the information that impressed you the most
about a global issues of your choice as part of the IB Community Theme (for
example, Global Poverty or Education for All).
-See http://communitytheme.ibo.org/ for more information.
-Be creative and make your graphs attractive and convincing.
-Use proportions or percentages to present your data in the graph.

4. Discussion
In your discussion; -Write a discussion on advantages and disadvantages of the graphs you’ve chosen for section 1
-Explain what impressed you the most in your findings;
-What links to Areas of Interaction can you find in this project?
-What ATL skills have you develop while working on this project?

5. State your conclusion

Requirements:
Poster: A2 format, title -“Exploring Graphs” Math project
must contain 6 graph with titles, labels, and conclusions

assignment repport:
Reflections, justification, conclusions, AOI


Assessment
Criterion C (Communication in Mathematics) max. 6
Criterion D (Reflection in Mathematics) max. 6
Oral Presentation (Creating Criteria together)
Results will count for Math as well as for Humanities

Due : Monday, Nov 23

Resources:

- Poverty Facts and Stats

http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats

– The World Bank News & Broadcast:

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20040961~menuPK:34480~pagePK:36694~piPK:116742~theSitePK:4607,00.html

- Different Resources on Poverty Issue

http://www.gradebook.org/Poverty.htm


- Statistics on Poverty and Inequality

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/gates99.htm

- The World in Action

http://www.avaaz.org/en/poverty_promise_breakers/

- End Poverty 2015 Millennium Campaign

http://www.endpoverty2015.org/

- How Rich Are You?

http://www.globalrichlist.com/index.php

- Gender Inequalities in Education

http://cse.stanford.edu/classes/cs201/Projects/gender-gap-in-education/page1.htm

- Gender inequality

http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/010/gender.html

– Centre for Social Justice

http://www.socialjustice.org/index.php?page=gender-inequality


– United Nations Statistics Division

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/statistics.htm#Top

STATEMENTS TO LOOK AT:

1. Of all Americans, African-American men fear violent crime the most. African-American young men are more than five times more likely to be murdered than young white men.
http://www.citymayors.com/society/usa-youth-jail.html

2.. In Pakistan, traditional laws deny women many of the human rights given to men. A Pakistani woman can be killed if she brings shame on her family. According to Amnesty International, hundreds of these ‘honour killings’ take place in Pakistan every year.
Amnesty International Report 2008
http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan

3. Workers in Guangdong province, China earn $1 a day to break up electronic equipment known as ‘e-waste’. Much of this comes from rich countries. The work is dangerous too. Workers do not wear protective clothing, and toxic materials seep into the ground. Water from local wells is now too polluted to drink.
Global Eye: Focus on China: Spring 2004
http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_spring04/eyeon/index.html

4. There is enough food in the world to feed everybody, but about 900 million people go to bed hungry every night. Many of them are children.
Worldometer http://www.worldometers.info/

5. Some women in Eastern Europe put themselves at great risk to make a living. They are smuggled illegally (or ‘trafficked’) into Western European countries to work. According to the United Nations, ‘human traffickers’ make profits of $32 billion a year.
BBC News: “Trafficking: A very modern slavery” February 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7243612.stm

6. In 2007, world food prices rose by 40%. Rising food costs affect everybody, but some families spend up to 80% of their incomes on food. These families are struggling to survive.
BBC News: “UN warns on food price inflation” March 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7281686.stm