Grade Level and Content
Area
This WebQuest
was designed to be used with students in grades 7-8. It focuses
on skills in both Mathematics and Science, and is based on the following
standards.
Standards and Benchmarks
(Standards courtesy of www.mcrel.org)
- Mathematics Standard #6 - Understands
and applies basic and advanced concepts of statistics and data analysis.
- Level III: Benchmark 1 - Understands
basic characteristics of measures of central tendency (i.e., mean,
mode, median)
- Level III: Benchmark 4 - Reads
and interprets data in charts, tables, and plots (e.g., stem-and-leaf,
box-and-whiskers, scatter)
- Level III: Benchmark 6 - Organizes
and displays data using tables, graphs (e.g., line, circle, bar),
frequency distributions, and plots (e.g., stem-and-leaf, box-and-whiskers, scatter)
- Science Standard #3 - Understands
the composition and structure of the universe and the Earth's place
in it.
- Science Standard #4 - Understands
the principles of heredity and related concepts.
Materials
- Computer with:
- Internet Access
- Printer
- Word Processing Program
- Adobe Acrobat Reader (available
for free download here)
- Calculator
- Assessment Game
Answers
Mission: Explore
- Size in kilometers, distance from sun,
length of year in Earth days, and surface gravity compared to Earth
- All answers available here.
- Here is the
data collection sheet for students to record their answers.
Mission:
Analyze
- Determine student age in days.
- Answers will vary, but in order to
calculate, multiply the age in years by 365.
- Determine student age on other planets.
- Take answer from previous question (in
days) and divide by the Earth days required to make one planetary year
(.e.g., If my age was 13, I would be 4,745 days old. One year on
Venus has 225 Earth days, so we divide 4,745 by 225, giving us an age
of 21 yrs. on Venus).
- Determine Bobo's weight on other planets.
- Use this
website.
- You need to times Bobo's weight, which
is 100 pounds, by the surface gravity on the other planets (e.g., If
Bobo's weight is 100 lbs., so you would take that times .903, which is
the surface gravity on Venus, and that gives us an answer of 90.3 Earth
pounds on Venus).
- Here is the data collection sheet
for students to record their answers.
Voyage:
Matchmaker
- 1a. Which planet has the best ratio
of guys to girls?
- Neptune at a 1:4 (2:8) ratio for
guys:girls.
- 1b. Which planet does Bobo have the
best chance of finding a wife on?
- 2. Which planet does Bobo have the best chance of finding
friends his age (18-28)?
- 3. Which planet is the least likely to have a wife for
Bobo.
- 4. Which planet is least likely to have friends Bobo's
age?
- 5. What conclusions can you draw from the information
given here?
Voyage:
Intelligence
Voyage:
Rainbow
- Using the data Bobo
collected, determine which eye color was
most common for each race.
- Purple Guys - Purple; Neptrionians -
Brown; Lizardians - Gold
- Which race has the best
tongue rollers?
- Which race has the worst
tongue
rollers? Explain why.
- Neptrionians - Based on the sample
photograph of the Neptrionian, you can see that they do not have
tongues, therefore, they cannot roll them.
- Are people with a certain
eye color more likely to be able
to roll their tongues?
- No, but this requires students to
analyze the results of their data and draw realistic conclusions.
- The answers to the following questiosn
depends on the data collected by the student, so they will vary from
class to class.
- Which race has the best
tongue rollers (in the Solar System)?
- Which eye color is most
common (in the Solar System)?
- Here is the
data collection sheet for students to record their answers.
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