Are you getting enough Zzz?
Compare the number of hours students who own cell phone sleep to the number of hours students who don’t own cell phones sleep and also with the number of hours students who sent more than 50 text messages slept.
A nationwide online survey for Year 5 - 13 students which provides real, relevant data and classroom activities to enhance statistical enquiry across the curriculum.
Level 4-5-6
Achievement Objectives
- Level 4
- S4-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
- B gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category, measurement, and time-series data to detect patterns, variations, relationships, and trends
- D communicating findings, using appropriate displays
- S4-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
- Level 5
- S5-1 Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
- A determining appropriate variables and measures
- D using multiple displays, and re-categorising data to find patterns, variations, relationships, and trends in multivariate data sets
- E comparing sample distributions visually, using measures of centre, spread, and proportion
- S5-1 Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
- Level 6
- S6-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
- E justifying findings, using displays and measures
- S6-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
Key Ideas
Average, Box plots, Distributions, Dot plots, Spread, Statistical questionsKey Competencies
- Thinking
- Analysing
- Exploring and using patterns and relationships in data
- Make predictions
- Using language, symbols and texts
- Interpret statistical information
- Interpret visual representations eg graphs/diagrams
- Using ICT as appropriate
Resources
- Student worksheet
- Teacher instructions
- “Conclusion” definition from “Tell it like it is!” activity
