Oreo 2000
Short Description
For this data gathering/analysing project all you need is a bag of Oreos, and a little curiosity about what the most popular way to eat an Oreo really is!
Subject
- Mathematics
- Educational Technology
Technology Needed
Schools need to be able to access the internet to send results by email and to download tally sheets and also extra classroom curriculum aids. However, if necessary, tally sheets, extra helps, and results can all be sent by snail mail.
Time Commitment
- 15 minutes for initial test and data collecting.
- 1 hour for extra curriculum helps
- 8 weeks to continually track daily updates.
Registration Information
Contact Jennifer Wagner at jwagner@crossroadsschool.org or visit the web site at http://www.crossroadsschool.org/Oreo_page.htm
Registration Deadline
October 29, 2000
Full Project Description
The hypothesis was created that we feel that most students DO NOT eat the middle of an Oreo first and save the chocolate cookie outside for last BUT over 50% of students will bite an Oreo.
We are invited schools all over the United States and the world to take the Oreo Munch Challenge.
Buy a bag of Oreos. Distribute to your class and record the results of how they ate the Oreo. There are 5 divisions.
- Bite
- Nibble
- Twist/Break
- Insert
- Other
There is no limit to how far you can take this project. Several word searches and internet scavenger hunts are available at the web site to help you increase this project.
Technology skills used:
- Email - to correspond between classes
- Internet - to make games/word searches
- Web Page Design - to post daily data
- Word - to make tally sheets
- Excel - to keep a spreadsheet of participants and to create graph showing %
- Access - to make a database of participants
- PaintShopPro (or paint) - to keep state map current of all participants
Project Objectives
The project has three specific purposes:
- The main goal is to have fun with a project.
- The secondary goal is to spread this project to as many states as we can via the Internet.
- The third goal is to create a project that brings in various areas of technology so that students with different skills can use their expertise.
Assessment
The teacher can easily teach graphing with this project.
Email usage - database usage - spread sheet use - word processing, etc etc etc.
Because it is a simplistic project with immediate results - it would be easy to have a 1/2 lesson that could be
expanded as you see fit.
Sponsored by
Crossroads Christian School
Corona, California
