Unit: Embracing Diversity

 

Topic: Language Idioms & Spreadsheets/Statistics

Unit Rationale: Students will explore language differences and the effects of these differences through the use of a spreadsheet database.

Unit Keywords: idiom, culture, Spanish idiom, spreadsheet, computer skill, questionnaire, sampling, graph, scattergram, statistic, mean, median, mode, range

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Lessons & Activities | Overview | Objectives
Evaluation | Subjects | Funding

 

Lesson 1: Ageless Idioms

Activity 1A: Ageless Idioms & Internet Idioms Activity 1B: Illustrating Ageless Idioms Activity 1C: Ageless Idioms in Spanish & Other Language Idioms

Lesson 2: Spreadsheet

Activity 2A: Exploring Spreadsheets Activity 2B: Hearing Aid Use Activity 2C: Comparing Spanish and English HHIE-S Scores

Lesson 3: Checking Test Comparability/Scattergrams

Activity 3A: Scattergrams by Hand Activity 3B: Scattergrams by Computer

Lesson 4: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range

Activity 4A: Means Activity 4B: Medians Activity 4C: Modes Activity 4D: Ranges Activity 4E: Calculating Statistics with a Computer

Lesson 5: Computer Skills

Activity 5A: Means of HHIE-S Scores Activity 5B: Means of the Age of Subjects Activity 5C: Means of Education Levels Activity 5D: Sorting by Gender

Lesson 6: Different Sized Samplings

Activity 6A: Sampling and Averages

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Overview & Resources

Unit Overview and Background Information for Teachers

 

Background Resources:
Flaherty JA, Gavaira FM, Pathak D, Mitchell T, Wintrob R, Richman JA, Birz S. Developing instruments for cross-cultural psychiatric research. J Nerv Ment Disease 1988;176:257-263.

 

Guillemin F, Bombadier C, Beaton D. Cross-cultural adaptation of health-related quality of life measures: Literature review and proposed guidelines. J Clin Epidemiol 1993; 46:1417-1432.

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Unit Objectives

Students will be able to:

• appreciate differences in language by studying idioms
• analyze and compare data from a spreadsheet
• use a scatter plot graph to check comparability of surveys
• find the mean, median, mode, and range of a given set
• construct a graph using a computer
• use the computer to manipulate data
• use the computer to sort a given set
• tally and graph scores from a random sampling

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Unit/Lesson Evaluation

Idioms Pre Test

Idioms Post Test

Idioms Pre/Post Tests Answer Key

Spreadsheet Pre Test

Spreadsheet Post Test

Spreadsheet Pre/Post Tests Answer Key

 

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Subject Areas Covered

	Lsn 1	Lsn 2	Lsn 3	Lsn 4	Lsn 5	Lsn 6
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Science		•	•	•	•	•
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English	•
Reading	•
Fine Art	•

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Funding

Positively Aging® Curriculum Program Funding 1997-2008:
National Institutes of Health
National Center for Research Resources
National Institute on Aging
Science Education Partnership Award
Grant # R25 RR 18549

 

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