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Unit:
Embracing Diversity
Topic: Language Idioms & Spreadsheets/Statistics
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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
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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
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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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