Choice Board
Choice Board Examples & Strategies
Use the Choice Board to allow students to display their voice and choice within their learning. The Choice Board can be used in multiple ways by the teacher to:
- Engage students who finish early
- Assess what students have learned at different points throughout the Unit
- Extend the Unit or lesson
- Allow students to display their learning in the Share section
The Choice Board is intended to provide content that can be added to the classroom’s existing Choice Board or to any bulletin board in the classroom.
The following is the Choice Board for this Unit:
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Data Journalist Write a short newspaper article or blog post explaining how Eye Sensor technology is revolutionizing bridge safety inspections. Incorporate data collected during the Lab in your supporting details. |
Lunch Preferences Study Predict which lunch meals are most popular among your classmates. Design a survey to collect data on favorite lunch items, analyze the results, and use the data to make a hypothesis about which lunch menu options will be the most popular in the coming week. Test your hypothesis by looking at actual lunch data during the week. |
Hue Value Prediction Game Choose 5-10 classroom items, and have each member of your group predict their hue value. Use the Eye Sensor to get the actual reported hue value. Record your predictions and the reported value - whoever was closer in their predictions, wins! |
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Local Bridge Inspector Research a local bridge in your city to find data about factors like climate, traffic, span, materials, and the age of the bridge. Use the data you find to determine whether the bridge meets the criteria for safe, at risk, or dangerous, and make a claim about its safety. |
Eye Sensor Pitch You need to pitch the Eye Sensor to your local bridge engineers, to convince them to use it for inspections. Make a presentation or infographic explaining how the Eye Sensor works, how it collects data, and its importance in real-world applications. |
Update for Irma Write a letter back to Mrs. Irma Bea Nebby to report on your findings. Include information about how you are investigating, the data collected, and what you have learned about the bridge in your letter. You can also tell her how this will affect your inspection of other bridges in the area. |
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Light vs. Dark Choose at least 3 classroom items (or pieces from the GO Kit) and and chart the hue value data reported by Eye Sensor in different light levels. Make the space brighter (with the eye light or a flashlight) and darker (like under a box, or in a dark corner). How does the light around the sensor affect the data? |
Bridge Swap Each person creates their own bridge crack pattern, and documents the location, size, and color of the cracks. Swap bridges with your partner, and use the Eye Sensor to collect data and see if you can correctly identify the cracks in the bridge. Document your findings, then compare them to see if your data is accurate. |
What Data Do You Need? Think about a situation or issue in your classroom or school that you could collect data about. Make a hypothesis about the issue (like 'When it's bad weather, students do worse on afternoon schoolwork'). Create a proposal that states your hypothesis and the reasoning behind it, and describes the data you would need to collect in order to support your hypothesis effectively. |