Kia ora koutou,
Year 9 summary investigations teaching sequence
Pip has worked with several Auckland high schools to develop a teaching sequence for summary investigations in Year 9. The sequence focuses on students collecting data about themselves. Links are made to the draft curriculum statement (March 2025) and will be updated when the new curriculum is released. A couple of the lessons (indicated by DRAFT) are not fully complete with vocabulary etc, but have sufficient information for teachers to use.
The lessons are based on students undertaking a statistical enquiry to find out about the class or year level. Lessons 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, and 11 broadly follow a statistical enquiry using the PPDAC cycle, which is noted in each lesson. Lessons 3, 4, 7, and 8 are concept development lessons, timed to allow for data collection and data entry across a year-level cohort.
This sequence might be a nice end-of-year unit, or, when planning for 2026, as a good start-of-the-year unit as we get to know our students.
Take part in CensusAtSchool this term!
The survey is open all year, and students love discovering what their classmates think. We’d love to have your students take part this term.
- Take part: https://new.censusatschool.org.nz/take-part/
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Teacher resources
Any questions? Just email us at hello@censusatschool.org.nz.
Upcoming dates
September 15: Last day to submit a response regarding the proposed changes to NCEA. See education.govt.nz/consultation-ncea for more information.
December 5: Statistics Teachers’ Day at the University of Auckland
Ngā mihi,
Rachel, Anne & Pip
CensusAtSchool New Zealand
