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===Student activities===
 
===Student activities===
Now you will create your own data sets based on things around you.  You will work in groups with your friends.  n this section we will focus on creating data sets in the class. The following activities can be take up by different sets of students.
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====Data collection and organzing====
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Now you will create your own data sets based on things around you.  You will work in groups with your friends.  In this section we will focus on creating data sets in the class. The following activities can be take up by different sets of students. For all these data sets, make pictographs when possible and also represent in a table form. 
 
#'''Data is about us''': Data is of us, around us.  To see how, collect the following information about your class:
 
#'''Data is about us''': Data is of us, around us.  To see how, collect the following information about your class:
##Make a list of the kinds of foods eaten in the class
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##Make a list of the kinds of foods eaten in the class over a week - these should be in some categories like sambar, rice, baingan etc.  And tabulate this as pictograph and with numbers.  Also list the food groups covered in the diet in each day. 
#'''Know your neighbourhood''': In groustudents could take up surveys of the school or home neighbourhood.  Some of the parameters for building the data set include the types of houses, the number of household members, the number of houses with school going students, the number of houses with students in college, the number of houses with cooking gas connection.
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##Find out the facorite movie song of all students in the class and tabulate.  Think about how you will ask the collection, how you will collect it and how you will organize it.
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##Find out the favorite subject of the class and favorite teacher in the school
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#'''Know your neighbourhood''': Go around your school or home neighbourhood for a surveyFind out the following: the types of houses, the number of household members, the number of houses with school going students, the number of houses with students in college, the number of houses with cooking gas connection.
 
#'''Profile of the newspaper'''  : Pick 3-4 newspapers from your library. Collect the following data for each newspaper.  
 
#'''Profile of the newspaper'''  : Pick 3-4 newspapers from your library. Collect the following data for each newspaper.  
 
##Date of the newspaper.
 
##Date of the newspaper.
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##Number of Letters to editor.
 
##Number of Letters to editor.
 
##Number of advertisements.
 
##Number of advertisements.
#'''What are we eating'''  This is to track the nutrition for students. Collect the various data elements around the mid-day meal in terms of the ration , fuel, grains and lentils consumed and vegetables
   
#'''Organizing our ICT resources''':  Revisit the data sets created in the school lab computers for the activity [[ICT_student_textbook/What_all_can_a_computer_do|What all can a computer do]].  Organize the resources in terms of features like size of the file, type of the file, application needed to open it and how this file could be used.
 
#'''Organizing our ICT resources''':  Revisit the data sets created in the school lab computers for the activity [[ICT_student_textbook/What_all_can_a_computer_do|What all can a computer do]].  Organize the resources in terms of features like size of the file, type of the file, application needed to open it and how this file could be used.
 
#'''Studying the flags of the world''': #With a collection of flags of various countries, try to organize them based on various parameters like colour, shapes contained, symbols contained and so on.  This data can be tabulated for analysis.
 
#'''Studying the flags of the world''': #With a collection of flags of various countries, try to organize them based on various parameters like colour, shapes contained, symbols contained and so on.  This data can be tabulated for analysis.
#Make a profile of your school based on rooms, teachers, students, number of plants, physical facilities, etc
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#Analyse kitchen ingredients as acid or base (your teacher will help you with identifying an acid or base)
#Analyse kitchen ingredients  
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#Please add activities based on class textbooks
      
=Portfolio=
 
=Portfolio=
 
#Data collected and tabulated (this can be non digital and can be digitized in subsequent activities)
 
#Data collected and tabulated (this can be non digital and can be digitized in subsequent activities)
 
#Text document with the data sets collected
 
#Text document with the data sets collected

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