Getting Started With Surveys
In this worksheet, students get the chance to try and use a few different sample surveys to practise asking questions and recording data. They then take the data they have recorded and move it to the computer to make tables and data in your favourite spreadsheet program. This is excellent practise and the perfect scaffolding for the later assessment.
This worksheet is part of a larger unit designed for Year 4 that helps students develop their statistical investigation skills by walking them through the necessary stages to plan, conduct and analyse a statistical investigation and then communicate their findings.
Learning goals
- We are learning to conduct investigations to collect data through surveys and to record, display and interpret the data to answer questions.
- We are learning to select and trial methods for data collection, including survey questions and recording sheets.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
This can be turned into a pairs or group activity if you are going to survey other classrooms to aid students who might struggle to complete it on their own, and to minimise the disruption of other classrooms.
Extensions
Have students present their findings and the graphs they made either as a class or in small groups.