In this graphing activity, students will use InspireData to analyze forest changes from 1990-2005 in 19 countries worldwide. This lesson can be used at the elementary level as a discussion tool to introduce Venn plots and stack plots, as well as a data literacy project that asks upper elementary students to answer the questions on each slide in the slide show. At the middle school and high school levels, this slide show can be used as a beginning point for a research project about country-to-country comparisons of total forest hectares, tree harvesting, reasons for the need to harvest, export value, import value for manufacturing of good, economic benefits and global ramifications for such harvesting. At the middle and high school level, this database could also be used as the beginning of a data analysis project, while students add more slides to further the investigation and comparisons between countries.
This activity was created using InspireData 1.5, which must be installed to open the file(s). Download a 30-day free trial at www.inspiration.com/freetrial or if you have InspireData 1.0, download a complementary upgrade.