Topography Project

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Topography Project

• Sixth Grade Science
• Waterloo Junior High School
• Karen Duvall
• November 2003

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Project Objectives

• Students will read and interpret topographic maps
  (2-D)
• Students will create terrains of sand, dirt, and
  rock.
• Students will gather data from the terrain to use
  in a visualization program called Eazy-Viz
• Students will use the visualizations (2-D and
  3-D) from Eazy-Viz to compare and analyze the
  terrains they created.

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Technology Objectives

• Students will use data from Excel in column, row
  format in Eazy-Viz.
• Students will create 3-D and 2-D visualizations
  in Easy-Viz
• Students will analyze and manipulate data from
  Easzy-Viz

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• Students seen here are creating the terrain
  trays. The trays were later covered with peg
  board and data was collected.

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• Students seen here are working on Excel in the
  classroom.

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• Students took over 3000 points of data from the
  trays. The data was copied from Excel and used
  in Eazy-Viz shown here. Our data is available
  through my website www.wcusd5.net/attend/jrhs/duva
  llk

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Student Comments It was cool Kristen It was
interesting because it was new to us, so it was
like an adventure! Sam It was fun, you got to
see it in 3-D Robert It was complicated to
figure out because there were too many steps to
go through to get to the 3-D part. The 3-D part
was helpful and easy from there. Tom
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• Students were able to accurately compare and
  analyze the computer visualizations to the
  terrains they created!
• Students comprehension of going from 2-D to 3-D
  visualizations increased.
• I found the students to be very engaged
  throughout the project, but especially when on
  Eazy-Viz.
• Students were very understanding about the
  changes we made through out the project.
• Through this project, our school as been selected
  to participate in Tech 2004. Students will be
  sharing our project with legislators at our
  capital building in April 2004!!!