Course Description
In this lesson, students learn how to create and edit charts in Excel to answer the question, “How fast do humans run?” The lesson teaches math and data science skills by leveraging Excel’s powerful charting tool to answer a question that spans human physiology and animal biology in an engaging sequence
of activities.
About this Course
Course Outline
Student activities
- Using a bar chart, compare the running speeds of land animals
- Discuss on how human running speed changes with time
- Learn how to create Excel charts
- Use trendlines to study the progression of human running speed with age
Race against land animals and future self
Learning objectives
The lesson meets these learning objectives:
- Understand how data is visualized using charts
- Learn the key components of an Excel chart
- Analyze data to answer questions
- Make predictions by analyzing data
Skills
Students acquire the following data science skills:
- Ask questions: Identify questions answered by a given data set
- Visualize: Read and interpret data in tables and charts
- Analyze: Analyze charts and answer questions
- Review: Make predictions and check interpretations
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