USA+-+Valentine's+Day+projects

= Happy Valentine's Day =

Americans, just like many of their people in other countries celebrate Valentine's Day with just as much energy and passion as Christmas. We buy gifts, candies, flowers, and other gift to show love ones and friends how much we appreciate them. Americans purchase greeting cards, send digital greeting cards, and make hand-crafted cards, as well.

As part of ePals' holiday traditions, students created hand-crafted greeting cards for their epal friends. After creating hand-crafted cards, we treated students with small boxes of Sweetheart candies. Sweetheart candies come in seven different colors: lavender, pink, white, mint green, sea blue, orange, and yellow. Each piece of candy has a special message imprinted on its surfaces that translates into "I love you."

Before eating sweet treats students used the sweetheart candies to complete a math-integrated technology lab activity. First, they used an Excel spreadsheet template to graph the number of same colored sweetheart candies they had in their individual box of candy. Next, they entered the same information in a class graph which one student had drawn on the chalkboard. Lastly, they selected another data set from the class count - class colors, girls sets, boys sets, a single color - to create a second graph. After they had finished, they printed the results, and then they got to enjoy a yummy treat.

See their results below.
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 * Sweetheart Graphing Activity ||
 * Sweetheart Graphing Activity ||