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Food Court Project - Nov. 2003
You just got hired to design a new
food court in the mall. Your job includes the following:
1. Conduct a survey of at least 50 people to see what foods or restaurants
they prefer. It will definitely be helpful to set up a form before you
start surveying people. Each person will take your survey and sign their
name next to their choice of food. You will compile all data into a
frequency distribution and circle graph.
Due: Monday, Nov. 10
2. Research at least five
different malls around the United States and find out what they offer for food
services. You will make a frequency distribution for each mall researched.
After all research is complete, compile all data into one frequency distribution
and circle graph.
Library Day: Tues., Nov. 4. Use this website to do research:
Mall Craze
Due: Friday, Nov. 14
3. Make a poster to present data from the research and survey to a reviewing committee. The presentation must include two frequency distributions and two circle graphs. The director of design will decide if you have enough information to check out a local site.
- The frequency distributions and
circle graphs will be all completed in steps 1 and 2. All you have to do
is display the charts and graphs on a poster board.
Due: Wednesday, Nov. 19
4. Work on site at the Northshore Mall in Peabody. You will have
to collect data at the food court and mall that will help you build your own
food court. We will be on site on Friday, Nov. 21.
After the mall you will have an hour to make a presentation based on data
collected. Presentation and lab at mall will be a quiz grade.
5. Based on all of the data
you have collected over the past month, make a 3-D model of a food court.
You may use any household materials to build and decorate your project.
You may use paper, poster board, wood, or anything else you can find.
Due: Monday, Dec. 8
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LIBRARY
ASSIGNMENT - February 1, 2002
How
the books in the library are arranged and why?
Follow the
"Dewey Cartoon" link and read the comic strip by moving
the scroll bar from left to right. Answer the question on your worksheet.
Click on the footprint labeled "Dewey Questions". Answer the questions on your worksheet.
"Why
not organize websites using the dewey decimal system?"
That's the question Gail Shea Grainger
asked. Her response is the Dewey
Browse library.
Use Dewey
Browse to locate websites and answer the questions on your worksheet.
TIme permitting, return to the Dewey
Cartoon link. Scroll to the end of the comic strip and
Click on the footprint labeled "Dewey
Derby". Discover where each of the books in the stack would be located
using Dewey Decimal.
Click on the footprint labeled "Explore
More" and learn how some other special libraries are organized.
Congratulations Alyssa DiBenedetto
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3rd Place Winner in a Poetry Contest
sponsored by Teen Magazine.
Her poem"Fantasy" is being published
in a book and is posted to Poetry.com.