Grocery Gripes

Project Summary

Organization

• Reviewed on-line collaborative projects and information on organizing projects.

• Decided to develop my own project instead of joining an established project.

• Focused on creating a  project  involving math and social studies.

• Topic would focus on grocery prices across the United States.

• Wrote a proposal, submitted to Global Schoolhouse and was accepted.

• Started e-mailing family and friends to find participants for the project.

Refinements

• Developed a worksheet, in a Word Document, to forward to participants.

• Worksheet was a table with names of grocery items and space for prices.

• Revised Worksheet.

• E-mailed worksheets to participants, as an attachment.

Wrap-Up

• Began development of  web pages.

• Started to receive participant data and put into a spreadsheet.

• Answered questions from participants.

• Continued refining these pages and entering data.

• Found a map to use.

• Received all data from participants. 

• Started working on web pages and putting data in a useable form.

• Put data into a spreadsheet to create graph.

• Edited map to include data for Illinois and NM.

• Finished these pages.
   

What Happened?

All but one participant sent in data quickly.  I ended up with 7 children and 6 adult participants.  Ten data sheets were received from New Mexico and Illinois.  Some questions came up which I address in the next page, Changes, of the participants.  All questions were answered within 24 hours, by e-mail.  No one joined the project from my announcement which might be expected in the summer.   You will find the results on the remaining pages.  Several participants seemed interested in the projects and said they would enjoying doing more.

 Changes Proposal Worksheet Map Results

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created by Nelda Baker
Last updated 08/02/2002 04:22 PM