Join a Sports Team!
                                                                         By:  Laurel Soto

Project at a Glance :

This project is for a class called “Statistics in Sports”, which is a math elective for 11th and 12 grade students. The class focuses on collecting, displaying and using real sports-related data to make decisions.  During this project, students will focus on a variety of statistics standards related to data collection through surveys and observational studies.  This unit is approximately 4 weeks long.
       
 
Driving Question:

How can we increase student's participation in sports at West Ottawa High School?             

Standards: 

• Identify advantages/disadvantages to collecting data through surveys, observational studies, and experiments
• Explain how confounding variables limit our ability to establish cause-and-effect relationships.
• Collect data using a survey, observational study or experiment, and use that data to make a conclusion/recommendation.

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 Team / Culture Building:

• Creative Sequence Assessment (via Google forms)​​​

• Inner Heroes
• Collaboration Tower
• Name it, Claim it
• 6 Word Memoir
• Hopes, Fears, and Norms

Entry Event:

• Goose Chase Scavenger Hunt
• Break out Boxes
• Need to Know List

Stakeholders:

• West Ottawa's athletic Director - Bill Kennedy and Assistant Athletic Director - Steve Bowyer
• High School Principal -Jason Reinecke 
• Student athletes at West Ottawa High School
• Students at West Ottawa High School
• West Ottawa community members and/or parents​ ​​​

Empathy Building:

• Stakeholder Map
• Empathy Map

Inquiry / Need to Knows:

• Create a Need to Knows list
• Develop an outline/roadmap of project
• Introduce project Rubric
• Panel interview with Stakeholders
• Outside Inspiration
• The Five Whys​

• Run the Question Formulation Technique prior to panel
• Jigsaw

Incubation:

• Anti-problem
• How would ______ solve this?
• What if _______ were ________?
• Idea Quota
• Brain Writing​

• Combin-ide-ation
• 3-12-3​

Checking in:

• Check in with teams once or twice per week
• Check in at the end of each stage
• Pluses and Deltas​

• Talking Chip
• Fishbowl
• Fireside Chat

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Solution Building:

• Ideamations​​

• Saturate and Group
• Poster Sessions
• Dot voting from posters
• $100 test
• Filtering and Objectives
  
  

Critique and Revision: 

• Elevator pitch
• Seeking Skeptics
• Critical Friends
• I Like, I Wish, What if?

Authentic Audience:

• Panel of stakeholders (principal, athletic directors, student athletes) will be invited to class to hear the pitches

Final Presentation:

• Skit, video, poster, prototype, etc...Student teams decide which method works best for their presenting their solution.
• Rubric, similar to what judges use during IChallengeU pitches​.

Click here for teacher's full plan.

​Reflection and Feedback:

• Practice pitches with other teachers/adults using the same rubric the authentic audience will use​
• Glows and Grows​

• Fireside Chat

Click here for the teacher's Journey through PBL on Padlet . . .

Meet the Educator:

Laurel Soto teaches math at West Ottawa High School.

     "Most students believe math is not useful for them in the real world.  However, statistics is one branch of math that can be applied in our lives everyday.  PBL helps students experience statistics first hand and see how important it is to collect and analyze."