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=G.R.A.S.P.S= Product: 25% Intention, 20% Animation, 20% Planning/Storyboard, 15% Effort, 10% Animation Length, 10% Sound and Title/Credits. || =Understanding(s)= • Determining quantitative measures such as the mean, median, mode, interquartile range, and absolute deviation can help to describe the overall patterns of striking deviations with reference to the context in which the data was collected. • Numerical data can be displayed in various forms such as: number lines, dot plots, histograms, and box plots that each have distributions that can be described by quantitative data. •Numerical data can be summarized through reporting the number of observations, describing the context in which the data was investigated, how the data was measured, and its units of measurement.
 * Goal || Determine the best player to scout for recruitment/drafting for your professional sports team. ||
 * Role || A professional team scout for your professional sports team. ||
 * Audience || The general manager, the owner, and the head coach of you professional sports team. ||
 * Setting || You are searching for statistics to analyze that help you determine the best choice player to scout for recruitment/drafting. ||
 * Presentation || A cartoon movie animation using GoAnimate. ||
 * Standards || Presentation: 25% Comprehension, 20% Preparedness, 20% Content, 15% Collaboration with peers, 10% Time Limit, 10% Speaks Clearly.

=Introduction= You have been selected as a finalist in a series of interviews for a scouting job with your favorite professional sports team. Your professional sports team is looking for some of the best college players to recruit for their upcoming 2011/2012 season, so they are looking to see who can provide them with the player with they best game play and statistics. You are up against four of the finest scouts across the country and you need to do everything possible to make the head coach, general manager, and the owner of your professional sports team choose you as their permanent professional team scout. It is a high paying job so the competition is high, so good luck!

=Task= You and your partner are potential professional team scouts for a professional sports team of your choice. Students must look to recruit the best out of three randomly selected college players for your team to scout for recruitment/drafting. To do this, you must look at three or more different types of game statistics that you can analyze, display, and observe to help support your decision. Students must use all quantitative measures to describe the game statistics they chose, as well as use at least three types of graphs in your presentation. You must then create a cartoon animation using GoAnimate that explains to your teams general manager, owner, and head coach, why your player should be scouted for recruitment/drafting to your team. This will be followed by an explanation of how your statistical analyzation helped to make you decision, why is related to your product, and how your video explains your decision. Students must demonstrate their complete understanding of the unit. This assignment is essentially a semester project that will be graded by peers, and teacher rubrics/ checklists.

=Conclusion=

Congratulations! You got the Job! Using your statistical knowledge of quantitative measures, graphical displays, and analyzation you have showed your favorite professional sports team head coach, general manager, and owner that you are capable of scouting the best college players to recruit for their team. This now concludes your expedition towards becoming a high paid professional sports team scout for your favorite professional sports team. Through this webquest you have applied your statistical knowledge of quantitative measures, graphical displays, and analyzing data. You have seen how the different aspects of statistics such as: mean, median, mode, IQR, range, dot plots, histograms, and box plots can be used to prove a point and back up your arguments in sports and in several other job fields. With any luck, you now understand the valuable use of statistics in making arguments, presenting ideas, and marketing and will be able to apply this in your own life situations.