I've always wanted to go to Hawaii, and after completing this activity, I don't know if there's ever a bad time do do it. On the fifteenth day of each month, the daily temperature was between 60-80 degrees F - and that's including the highs and the lows! Working with Google-docs to complete the spreadsheet and graph was definitely new for me, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to add labels to the key. I'm sure it's something simple, but I certainly couldn't get it...
I can see myself using an activity like this in my classroom during our chemistry unit. Students could research the melting and freezing points for each of the various groups of elements on the Periodic Table, and could create a graph (or multiple graphs) to represent the data they've collected. Or, perhaps I could use it to record student data for analysis when we create ice cream in a bag, and the students have to monitor the temperature change over time. Whatever the reason, I think spreadsheets and graphing programs are fantastic for science students, and I would like to find more ways to incorporate it into my teaching!
Feel free to check out the link below to the spreadsheet and bar graph I completed on Honolulu, Hawaii.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Av921-Wt-YgQdGJrbnRISXZTOV9xZzVuVmhhN1NHSUE&hl=en&output=html
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