Cookie Tower

This activity is a great way to learn data-collection skills in a fun way.

Materials:

  • Small cookies

  • Paper

  • Pen

  • Computer


Procedure:

  1. Stack the cookies in a tower as high as possible and record how many cookies were stacked once the tower falls.

  2. Repeat step 1 multiple times until there are many data points.

  3. Find the mean, median, and mode of the data.

  4. Use the computers to create a graph of the data.

  5. Compare the data and graph between the groups.