Format
The students will connect live with a Flight Director at CLC-Mission Control for an overview of our operations on the moon. A fire alarm will alert Mission Control that we have a fire on the moon and the students will have to use statistics to determine what materials are on fire and how to supress the fire.
Data is driven into team computers with an interface that also allows them to use a fire scene simulator.
After calculating the mean, median and mode; the students will prepare box & whisker plots to determine which simulated run matches so that they can determine the source of the fire.
Objectives
This is a very engaging, hands-on way to to cover statistics for middle school students. They will work in a fast paced enviornment and they will learn how useful statistics can be to help solve problems.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
This program has been aligned to state/national standards and you can check out the complete list on www.e-missions.net under "Standards and Objectives" on the Teacher's Toolkit.
State Standards
This program has been aligned to state/national standards and you can check out the complete list on www.e-missions.net under "Standards and Objectives" on the Teacher's Toolkit.