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produced by Janelle Harper, Sharon Townsend, Pearl Woolfolk, Linda Sudduth

Web Institute for Teachers, Summer, 2000

Introduction
This curriculum is designed to help develop children's understanding of datacollection, organization, and graphing data as a means of showing their findings through the study of whales.
Aim
Students often complete graphing activities with little understanding of its purpose, where the information comes from, how to interpret it and why we make graphs. Our aim is to bridge an understanding between the purpose of collecting data and its use in graphs.

Rationale
Students must be critical thinkers with the ability to understand the purpose of research about a subject with the intent of presenting what is learned and understood. Students should research a topic with a goal in mind. Data collection and graphing will be the goal of this unit on whales.

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