Day 6: Use Your Database
The Great Coaster Quest Challenge
- Divide into four-member Coaster
Quest Teams, and then select a Coaster database that was created
by one of your team members. This will be the database your team
will use in competition. Important: Evaluate each team member’s database carefully before you make a selection. Check
each database for accuracy, reliability, and completeness. Ask your teacher
to guide you in this evaluation. Is the information correct? Did the
student finish the database? Can you rely on it during competition? Let’s
hope so!
- Write five Coaster Challenge
Questions that can be answered by anyone in your class using any
of the student-made databases. The other Coaster Quest Teams will
try to answer your questions during competition. Craft the questions
carefully. They should challenge the other teams to use multiple
search strategies to locate, organize, analyze, and present their
answers. Record each question on an index card—one
question per card.
- Create a name for your team. Write your team name on each of the
five question cards. (index cards) Your teacher must approve the questions
before competition begins.
- The Day of the Challenge: Throw into a container
all question cards generated by the teams. Mix them up well. Each team
must gather around the team database, and then draw out five question
cards. Return any question that was written by your own team. Your
Coaster Quest Challenge is to work together as a team to correctly
answer the questions before time is called. (Your teacher will determine
the amount of time available for competition.) Record your answer and
team name directly on the question card (index
card). All question
cards will be collected for scoring when time is called.
- Using a data projector, your
teacher will display a student-made database, and together the class
will answer and score all questions. Your teacher will make the final
scoring decision – correct or incorrect. A
scorekeeper will record one point for each team’s correct answer.
The team with the most points wins the Great
Coaster Quest Challenge Award.pdf!
Now that you are able to create a database from scratch, think about
creating a personal database of information that interests you. Are you
crazy about movies? Create a database of all your favorite flicks. Do
you enjoy talking on the phone and writing letters to your friends and
family? Make a database of their phone numbers and addresses! For example,
Kyle spends his free time riding four-wheelers, so he started a collection
of information on all his favorite models. Lauren has a huge collection
of Barbie dolls from her childhood and started a database that looks
like this.
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