Workshop – Working with CensusAtSchool data – Years 7 & 8 new
This is a workshop plan. It is designed for someone to use to lead PLD within a school setting, e.g., for a staff or syndicate meeting. The workshop is aimed at teachers of year 7 & 8 students.
This workshop has a focus on getting ready to do the CensusAtSchool questionnaire with students, and then working with the class and school data provided. Workshop participants get to engage in the PPDAC cycle as they explore teaching the statistics strand of the NZC.
This activity explores the following key ideas:
- Preparing to Take Part in the current CensusAtSchool survey
- Working with secondary data – data cards
- Interrogating the variables available to use
- Posing investigative questions
- Making data visualisations using data cards and CODAP (Common Online Data Analysis Platform)
- Describing data visualisations
- Answering investigative questions
Resources
- Workshop plan – including workshop material masters
- Workshop Google Slide presentation
- Links needed in the workshop
- Sharing links
- CODAP Year 7&8 data cards both sets of variables plus
CensusAtSchool materials
Related teaching and learning activities
- Take part in CensusAtSchool New Zealand
- Year 7-8 data cards
- Exploring Our Class Data: Years 7-8 – CensusAtSchool New Zealand
- Posing summary investigative questions – CensusAtSchool New Zealand
- Using data cards – CensusAtSchool New Zealand
- Y8 Fabulous Feet – PPDAC cycle – CensusAtSchool New Zealand
- Describing distributions – CensusAtSchool New Zealand
Related information for teachers
- Interrogating secondary data – CensusAtSchool New Zealand
- Distribution description frameworks
- Survey questions activity
- Investigative questions – Pip’s PhD
Tāhūrangi materials
Related teaching and learning activities
