Year 5 Exploring Our World: Teaching Plan new
A teaching plan covering statistics and probability learning outcomes
Activity 1: Introduction to data science, statistics & Dollar Street
Lesson 1: Introduction to data science and statistics
- Introduction to data science and statistics
- Finding out about Dollar Street, New Zealand Census, and CensusAtSchool websites
Lesson 2: Introducing the Dollar Street website to the class
- Introduction to Dollar Street
- Finding out about the $ values
- Finding out what variables Dollar Street collects
- Learning about attributing photographs from the internet
Activity 2: Dollar Street Investigation
Lesson 1 – Identifying our investigative focus
- Make a connection to the Social Studies big idea of people seeing the world differently depending on their values, traditions, and experiences. Diversity: looking between and within cultures.
- Students are introduced to the PPDAC statistical enquiry cycle for data investigations.
- Students decide on an investigative purpose to gather data from Dollar Street – what will they detect?
- Students make a conjecture about what they expect to find.
Lesson 2 – Planning to collect data from Dollar Street
- Students identify the variables that they want to collect for their investigative focus.
- This will include defining the variables and possible outcomes to consider.
- Students develop data collection questions.
- Students test out their data collection ideas to see that they will work. They update data collection tools.
- Students design a way to record the data they will collect.
Lesson 3 – Collecting data from Dollar Street
- Students are collecting data from photographs on Dollar Street.
- Students are recording data in an electronic spreadsheet..
- Students are checking data for errors.
Lesson 4 – Analysing our data from Dollar Street
- Students import their data into CODAP and create data visualisations for their data.
- Students make summary statements about the data, connecting it to the group that was investigated.
Lesson 5 – Communicating findings about Dollar Street
- Students are learning to choose the best descriptive statements to answer the investigative question.
- Students prepare their own evidence of undertaking a statistical enquiry to share with others.
- Students can reflect on their findings relative to initial conjectures they have made.
Activity 3: Using CODAP
- Students learn how to use CODAP
- Exploring datasets using CODAP
- Saving and sharing CODAP documents
Activity 4: Probability activities
- pose investigative questions for a chance-based situation with equally likely outcomes, listing all possible outcomes for the situation
- plan, conduct, and record data for a probability experiment
- create and describe data visualisations for the distribution of observed outcomes from a probability experiment, using them to answer the investigative question
- compare my findings with those of others when undertaking probability experiments
- agree or disagree with others’ conclusions about chance-based investigations, with justification
