Distance Learners:
Below is the lesson plan that you usually see me write on the dry erase board in class.
Please follow the lesson as it appears below. It will have you understand and interact with Data Trends.
When you reach the Red Sentence below...it will have you answer questions on a Google Doc I set up for you in your CSP class folder.

U4Ch1L2: Data Trends

Purpose: Students will learn how to find and explain trends in data.

Handout: Data Trends (open!)
 (Open and read explanation of Data, Trends and as an example…Google/Trends.)

• Explore Google/Trends (open!)
• Enter a variety of search terms that you feel people would most likely enter when using the Google Search Engine.
• Add Filters to narrow your search.
• Example1: First I entered Climate Change. Eventually I entered Paris Accords as a filter to Climate Change.
• Look for Trends and/or Spikes in the entry of those terms over time. Can you explain what is causing the spike?
• Select the "Comparison" button and enter a second topic.

Continue exploring comparisons of search trends that are interesting to you.  You might start by looking up:

• A current event / social movement / hashtag / meme
• Your favorite hobby / movie / song / book / celebrity
• Popular apps / businesses / products / websites

 Here are ​some things to look for:

• Long-term trends: Is your topic becoming more popular over time? Less?​      
• Short-term trends: Does your topic suddenly spike or dip in popularity?​           
• Patterns: Does your topic follow some predictable repeated pattern?​
• Relationships: Does one topic increase or decrease in popularity when another one does?​     

Research Project: Trends In Data
As you explore, you should eventually ​settle on one topic you find particularly interesting, to you. You will analyze the trends and present your explanation in a Google Doc titled “U4Ch1L2_DataTrends” that I left for you in your CSP Class folder in your drive.
Here is a Model I created to help you: click here.

Here are the questions you will analyze while exploring the data trends in regards to the topic you have selected:

1. Describe what topic you entered and whether you narrowed your search by using filters.​ Create a Comparison. Take a screen shot of the graphs and enter it onto the document.
2. Accurately ​ explain what the charts or other visualizations are showing.​
3. Come up with a ​possible story or explanation of why the trend you described might have happened