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Posing summary investigative questions

Prior to partaking in this activity students should have been involved in the CensusAtSchool survey.

Information about the CensusAtSchool survey can be found at: http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/

Information relating to determining appropriate variables and data collection methods, and gathering data can be found in the making measures document which is located at: http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/2009/information-packs/

In this activity students are reintroduced to the 2009 CensusAtSchool survey by way of data cards.  (This could be adapted to meet any of the previous CensusAtSchool surveys.) Students will be involved in posing investigative questions, making displays using their data cards and giving descriptions of their display.  This is followed up with a reflection on the process leading to identifying what are key aspects of a good investigative question.

Level 4

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

Key Ideas

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Key Competencies

  • Managing self
  • Relating to others
    • Communicate thinking
    • Share ideas
    • Work in groups
  • Thinking
    • Engage in sense making
    • Investigating
    • Seek patterns and generalisations
  • Using language, symbols and texts
    • Interpret visual representations eg graphs/diagrams

Resources

Author

Pip

Last revised

(September 2010)

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