The human eye can easily distinguish green leaves from yellow and brown ones. But breaking these colors down to their RGB values can help students see how changing pigments reflect the life of plants. Discover how Kamonrat taught this lesson through photography and pie charts.
Kamonrat first asked students to photograph a green leaf, a yellow leaf, and a brown leaf. Learn how to photograph everyday objects in Chapter 1 of the Everyone Can Create Photo guide.
Then she instructed them to use Markup to determine the breakdown of red, green, and blue of each leaf’s color.
Next, she showed them how to create pie charts of these values in Numbers.
Finally, students organized these graphs into an infographic in Pages and explained how different pigments reflected the life of these plants. Learn how to create infographics in Chapter 8 of the Everyone Can Create Drawing guide.
As we transform a student’s data transformation skills and help them present their understanding, they are, in fact, making connections with Mathematics to communicate Science effectively. This is critical to build the foundation of a future scientist.