8th Grade Statistics Project- Scatter Plots: Analyzing Asthma

I created this project as a fun way for my 8th grade students to apply their knowledge of scatter plots in a meaningful way. They had a lot of fun!

Students pretend to be biostatisticians investigating why asthma rates in a city are skyrocketing. Students get to uncover the environmental cause of the increased rates of asthma and investigate how different factors are associated with asthma attacks.

Students get lots of practice:

- creating scatter plots using a table of data

- selecting an appropriate scale for the axes

- labeling and titling their graphs

- describing the scatter plots including different types of associations, outliers, and clusters

- interpreting the meaning of the data scatter plots

This project includes:

- a map of Midwood overlaid with a coordinate plane

- a data sheet with information about all of the asthma patients

- a 7 page analysis packet

- an optional short google slides presentation to use to introduce the project

-an answer key

This project is a PDF to ensure correct formatting, but the instructions page contains a link to an editable google document version so you can edit it to meet your students needs.

I hope your students enjoy this project - let me know if you have any ideas for how to improve it!

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