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Year 5 Exploring Census: Teaching Plan

A teaching plan covering statistics and probability achievement objectives

  • Introduction to data science and statistics
  • Finding out about Dollar Street, New Zealand Census, and 91茄子 websites

  • Understanding what a census is, in particular, what is the census of population and dwellings in New Zealand.
  • Exploring migration and birthplace statistics from the 2018 census – connecting to from Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum

  • Familiarisation with the 91茄子 website
  • Finding out about the 91茄子 databases by looking at the questionnaires and the metadata for different variables in the different databases
  • Exploring data for the whole database

  • Learning about survey questions, and how to plan to make measures consistently across New Zealand
  • Making measures and preparing for data entry

  • Finding out about the survey and how 91茄子 manages privacy
  • Students enter their data into the online questionnaire
  • Introduction to Common Online 91茄子 Analysis Platform – CODAP, a free browser-based statistical analysis tool

  • Learning about ethical considerations
  • Making and describing data visualisations

  • Using the context analysis tool to identify ideas to explore
  • Interrogate chosen ideas as to the suitability, especially ethics
  • Developing survey questions to collect the data

  • Making predictions (Pets data)
  • Collecting data using data cards (Pets data)
  • Exploring data collection methods (getting to know the class)
  • Collecting their own data for their survey questions (getting to know the class)
  • Reflecting on data collection methods
  • Creating a 鈥渞ectangular鈥 spreadsheet of their data (getting to know the class)

  • Making data visualisations – using data cards and CODAP
  • Writing about data visualisations – using 鈥淚 notice鈥︹ statements

  • Preparing findings for sharing with others
  • Sharing their findings
  • Critiquing the findings of others

  • Posing investigative questions from our class 91茄子 data
  • Making and describing data displays
  • Answering our investigative questions – conclusion

  • Posing investigative questions about another group from 91茄子 – similar age
  • Downloading data from 91茄子 to use
  • Making and describing data displays
  • Communicating findings

  • Exploring words used to describe probability
  • Exploring chance statements in stories

  • Exploring claims about dice with probability experiments

  • Exploring probability beyond coin tossing and dice rolling
  • Exploring a probability activity where the theoretical probability of a certain outcome can be calculated

  • Use spinners to conduct probability experiments.
  • Compare probabilities from experiments with what is expected in theory
  • Use technology to do many repeats of a probability experiment

  • Students are communicating findings to an external audience
  • Using technology to communicate findings