Day 1- Discuss project and reasons for doing the project; form groups of four; contract goes home

Day 2- Brainstorm possible survey questions; select question; assign group to make survey instrument

Days 3 & 4- Write persuasive letter to principal; prepare speech that is to be given to the classes while taking the survey; practice speech; form group hypothesis

Days 5 & 6- Participate in learning stations. Stations will be set up to teach students how to make a table and graph in Claris Works, communicate using Eudora, and how to make a simple web site using Netscape Composer.

Day 7- Conduct survey. Students will go to their assigned classes and administer survey. Once data has been collected it will be tabulated.

Days 8 & 13- Computer work days. There will be a computer available for each group to use each day. It is during this time that all work should be accomplished. In addition, a lesson will be taught on how to convert real data into percents. The majority of work is done in class, resulting in little homework. Students are encouraged during this time to work on multiplication and division at home.

Day 14 ( & 15 if needed)- Presentations; self evaluation; teacher evaluation of projects.