Every year when teaching range, median and mode my students love to create their own survey and collect data and then calculate the range, median and mode from what they collected. I only get one week to teach statistics and I always feel rushed because the students need time to survey 25 people individually and then organize their information. In order to save time and help with organization, I decided that this year we would utilize GoogleDocs to create one large group survey so that we could send out the link to our peers and quickly get our results so we could calculate the range, median and mode of our questions. Let me just tell you... using Google Forms for surveys is incredibly easy and I use it frequently to ask my students questions, for online assessments and also to communicate with my 5th grade team.
Here's what I did for my Statistics Tech Infused Lesson:
1. Create one Gmail account (teacher only)
2. Go to GoogleDocs and select Forms
3. Select a template and title your survey
4. Have each student come up and type their questions and answer choices into the template (answer must be number questions since they are going to be calculating the range, median and mode)
5. Once everyone has entered their questions/answers publish the form, send the link to your students, post in the classroom with a QR code or put on your teacher website so students can begin answering their peers questions.
Feel free to take our survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1USogYzOj2dzgG9RJQLq5elqKVTXVTUwrYX-DG1YLXgk/viewform?usp=send_form
Here's what our class survey looks like (pretty fancy!):
6. After you select "Publish" a message box will appear asking where you would like responses to go, name your excel spreadsheet so you can quickly find it again in your Google Docs.
7. Make sure all students have completed the survey and then go back to your account and find your form and select the tab that says "View Responses"
8. A beautifully organized list of each question with responses will be displayed in a spreadsheet, print it off, cut each question and give the results to each student and have them calculate the range, median and mode for their data.
*** I also had students use Excel to create a graph of their data and display their results they calculated on a Word
Student Sample:
