Picture This: Barbie Makes Her Debut
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| Audience/Grade: | 2 - High School Junior 2-11 |
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Design Engineering Management Industrial Design |
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Teaching - Lesson Plan |
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Organization:Global Grid for Learning |
| Description: | Teaching activity for ages 7-11. On this day in 1959, the first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Ask learners to organise a survey of favourite toys in their class and swap results with another class. Encourage them to use IT to present the results in different graph formats. They may need support in deciding how to group different answers together, for example whether to count all kinds of dolls in one category, or have separate categories for each individual kind of doll. They could swap results with another class or age group, or ask parents and grandparents about their favourite toys when they were children, or re-run the survey in relation to their own favourite toys when they were younger. Help them to compare and interpret the results, looking for differences and trends. What sorts of toys do older / younger learners seem to prefer? |
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| Keywords: | Barbie Mattel toy design |
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Might be a good activity for March 9th for an "OnThisDay" activity. Learner Outcomes assessment: Undertaking a survey; presenting statistics on a graph; interpreting statistics; comparing then and now |
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| Publication Date: | March 2011 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.globalgridforlearning.com/picture-this-barbie-makes-he |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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