Alpharetta High School was selected as 1 of 10 schools, and
the only high school, in the state of Georgia to be a “Georgia Grown Test
Kitchen”. The Georgia Grown Test Kitchen
is a program in which the School Nutrition Program and the Department of Agriculture
work together to create healthy recipes using “Georgia Grown” ingredients and
then taste test these recipes with students throughout the 2014-2015 School
Year.
On Thursday, October 23rd, Lori Hetherington’s second period
AP Statistics participated in a test kitchen survey, testing a new recipe for
applesauce. How’s that for real-world application?
“Our current unit is Sampling and Experimentation”, explains
Ms. Hetherington. “The students have
learned about different types of sampling procedures as well as the right and
wrong ways to sample from a population.”
Ms. Hetherington’s students are currently working in groups to develop a
survey on a topic of their choice. They
must write the survey, choose their sample, give the survey and analyze the
results. Through their participation in
this real life survey, the students can see the importance of proper data
collection and analysis and how this information impacts everyday life. In this case, what they may be seeing in the
school cafeteria in the near future.
