Part 4 - Making A Bar Graph Holiday Special Assignment

Jurassic Park Film Franchise

This is Part 4 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 4 of this seven-part assignment will be to create a bar graph to enable you to begin analyzing the data you have collected. It is similar to Part 3 but the difference is that you will create a bar graph either on paper/poster board or using Microsoft Excel to display the number of filming locations in the United States for the films.

Common Core Educational Standards (Science and Math)

In Part 4 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, displayed the data in a table in Part 2, and created a bar graph to display a portion of the data in Part 3, for this part of the Holiday Special Assignment you will create another bar graph. The setting of a story is one of the elements of literature. The setting is defined as where and when the story happens. Each of the films in the Jurassic Park media franchise were filmed in places that naturally looked like tropical islands. For this bar graph, you will focus on the locations where the stories were filmed

Jurassic Park was one of the first films to extensively use computer-generated imagery (CGI) to create lifelike dinosaurs, setting new standards for visual effects in cinema. The film's iconic T-Rex scene was a combination of CGI and animatronics, showcasing how both techniques can enhance storytelling.

The video below focuses on how Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) was made. Live-action-dinosaur supervisor John Nolan and Visual Effects Supervisor David Vickery provide information about how he and his team at Industrial Light & Magic worked to animate the Giganotosaurus. A Giganotosaurus (referred to as a Giga in the video) is a dinosaur that scientists believe lived in South America in present-day Argentina, about 96 million years ago. Its name translates to "giant southern lizard." It was one of the largest known terrestrial carnivores. It is a type of therapod like the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Its size is estimated to have been from 39 to 43 feet in length, with a skull from 5 to 6 feet in length, and a weight of 4.6 to 15.2 tons. The animatronic Giga in the film was the largest practical head built for any Jurassic Park film. The practical and digital effects teams worked hand in hand to bring the large dinosaur replica to life.

Instructions

First, watch the video below titled “Using Data from Primary Sources.”

Then, create a bar graph to display the filming locations for each of the films in the film/media franchise. You should use the data you included in the table that you made in Part 2 (Filming Locations). If you choose to make the bar graph using MS Excel, refer to the instructions from Part 3 of this assignment. If you are unable to make the bar graph/chart on the computer, you can create one using markers and either cardstock paper or poster board.

There is an image package with clip art images of dinosaurs and film logos that you may copy, paste, print out, and use to decorate your tables and graphs. You can click on the HSA Image Package title to open the page.

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.