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[flannery-denny]

I think the snack habits lesson is pretty close to ready and would love some feedback if you have time. No reason to look at any of the other lessons on this branch.

Feel free to just make commits to improve things.

I haven't updated the project slide template after the last reorganization but go ahead and adjust if you have ideas.

Emmanuel and I decided that filtering for individual data wasn't something the average teacher would be comfortable with but I need to add a pedagogy box letting them know they can go deeper.

[joystraub]

First, I just have to say how excited I am to see Snack Habits get such a wonderful Bootstrap makeover. It really needed it. I love the forms and the instructions. It makes it so user-friendly for the teachers. Thank you for the time put into this. I think it is a wonderful project and will certainly be more used once they see it in this form!!
I just have four comments:

• I love the Data Cycle for their question on the class data. I know they have only been taught Bar and Pie charts at this point, but much of the data is quantitative, and they have a lot of quantitative questions. They have practiced the quantitative displays in the Contracts lesson - but just creating them, not analyzing and interpreting them. Is there a way to address this? That students could have quantitative questions - but because we they have not been taught how to interpret them, we will focus this Data Cycle on categorical. However, they certainly can use the quantitative data to make displays later to use in their research question. They might want to investigate sugar content or fat content of foods, etc. and compare to our class. We want to encourage that. I guess I just want to make sure we are not limiting them to only categorical variables in this project. - Adding a note for teachers that they can go there if they want
• I could not tell from the Google Form, but was the Time validation set to military time (24 hour clock)? That really helps when calculating and creating graphs. - There doesn't appear to be a way to specify that data validation for time on this google form is in military time but I went back and looked at the file of your class' data that you shared with me and realized that your students gave snack times in hours (no minutes) so I've changed the form accordingly.
• A note is made that this is the same name as a project in the IDS material - However, it is not the same name. In the IDS material, it is called "Food Habits" - they track all food eaten all day. I modified this to just snacks to keep away from eating issues and to minimize the amount of work on students. Just wonder if that could be changed to say it is a project that has been modified from a similarly named project in the IDS material.
• In the section where suggestions are made for how teachers could get the link of the Google Form to the students, it might be good to add adding it to their LMS system like Canvas or Google Classroom. Most teachers use this and posting it there makes it easily accessible by the students. I told them to decide how they wanted to share the link in the preparation section

You mentioned a note would be added that they could produce for students a filter function example to just produce their own snack information. I think that would be good to do. Just say if you wish - here is something you could show students and let them know they would learn later - but can use now to get displays on their own if they wish to compare and contrast their data to the class and the US. That is a big deal for students. They really get into comparing themselves.

Will there be lesson slides for this?

[flannery-denny]

@retabak I'm waiting on your review. Please prioritize this before our meeting tomorrow.

@joystraub We don't offer slides for any of our Projects. How high of a priority do you see this as?

[joystraub]

Not really. If you don't for projects, then keep it that way.

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[retabak]

Meta comment: The big thing that I wanted to see more of throughout was guidance for teachers to help kids understand how everything they are doing is one piece of a bigger puzzle / project. When I got to the last section, I genuinely thought to myself, "Oh! Cool! It's a projet! They're making a presentation. I had no idea." (E.g. at the start - "hey kids, check out this slide deck you'll be completing later"; while building displays - "save these, they will go in your slide deck"; after data cycle - "hold onto this worksheet, you will refer to it when you make your slide deck").

If I were doing this project, I would want to have lots of class discussions along the way, and I think teachers would appreciate more guidance on how to make that happen. The project-lesson at the moment focuses mostly on the step-by-step mechanics; I think meaningful project implementation requires lots of conversation and critical thinking as a group.

FYI: When I opened the google form and made a copy (as instructed), this message (below) appeared. I've never seen anything like it. If it will appear for teachers (which I assume to be the case), we should let them know that it is coming and explain what it is.

[retabak]

see meta-comment in the PR!

[flannery-denny]

closing so that Rachel can open a different pull request.