Jurassic Park Film Franchise
This is Part 3 of a Data Collection and Analysis assignment in which you will use what you have learned so far about animation to collect and analyze data about the films in the Jurassic Park film franchise. Part 3 of this seven-part assignment will be to create a bar graph to enable you to begin analyzing the data you have collected. You will create a bar graph in Microsoft Excel to display the number of different settings for each of the films.
Common Core Educational Standards (Science and Math)
In Part 3 of this assignment, students will analyze and evaluate the data collected about each of the films in the media franchise by using appropriate graphical methods.
Now that you have collected the data as requested in Part 1 and displayed the data in a table in Part 2, you will create a graphical display of a portion of the data as Part 3 of this Holiday Special Assignment. Students in most middle school English/Language Arts classes learn that there are seven (7) elements of literature that make up a good story. They are characters, setting, point of view, conflict, plot, theme, and mood. This part of the assignment focuses on the settings of each of the film’s stories.
The following video features information about the setting of the film Jurassic World (2015), which was directed by Colin Trevorrow. Steven Spielberg was the executive producer. This film is the fourth installment overall in the Jurassic Park film series and it is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Filming lasted from April to August 2014 in Louisiana and Hawaii. The dinosaurs were created by Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic using CGI and by Legacy Effects using life-sized animatronics.
Instructions
For Part 3 of this assignment, you will make a bar graph of the information that you displayed on the table about the settings of each film. A portion of the data you collected when you read about each film on Wikipedia.org as you conducted your research is what you will display on the bar graph. In this way, you will be organizing the data so that you can analyze it.
First, watch the video below titled “Organizing the Data.”
Then, make a bar graph on the computer in Microsoft Excel. I suggest that you start by using the MS Excel file that you used to make the table in Part 2.
Open the MS Excel file for the table.
Copy the sheet in the workbook to make another sheet.
Rename the second sheet Bar Graph.
Rename the first sheet Table.
On the Bar Graph sheet, delete the columns that show the Filming Locations and the Premieres. The result will be that you will only have a table with the Settings for each of the six films.
Select the entire table to highlight it and click on “Insert.”
Click on Recommended Table and choose the bar graph/chart that is shown.
Click on “OK” at the bottom and you will be able to see the bar graph with the information from your table.
Resize and format the bar graph/chart to your liking and save it.
If you are unable to make the chart on a computer, you can create one using markers and either cardstock paper or poster board.
Be sure to keep the bar graph that you create in a safe place either saved on your computer or in your files. You will need to use this bar graph to analyze the data about these films in a future assignment.