TEACHER ENRICHMENT INITIATIVES

Curriculum

Embracing Diversity

Topic: Idioms - Language and Aging

Overview:

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

Lesson 1: Ageless Idioms

Activity 1A: Ageless Idioms Extension: Idioms on the Internet

Activity 1B: Illustrating Ageless Idioms

Activity 1C: Ageless Idioms in Spanish Extension: 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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