Year 5 Exploring Census: Teaching Plan
A teaching plan covering statistics and probability achievement objectives
Session 1: Introduction to data science and statistics
- Introduction to data science and statistics
- Finding out about Dollar Street, New Zealand Census, and CensusAtSchool websites
Session 2: What is a census?
- 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 Whakapapa me te whanaungatanga | Culture and identity from Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum
Session 3: Introduction to CensusAtSchool
- Familiarisation with the CensusAtSchool website
- Finding out about the CensusAtSchool databases by looking at the questionnaires and the metadata for different variables in the different databases
- Exploring data for the whole database
Session 4: Making measures
- Learning about survey questions, and how to plan to make measures consistently across New Zealand
- Making measures and preparing for data entry
Session 5: Doing the CensusAtSchool survey
- Finding out about the survey and how CensusAtSchool manages privacy
- Students enter their data into the online questionnaire
- Introduction to Common Online Data Analysis Platform – CODAP, a free browser-based statistical analysis tool
Session 6: Getting to know the class
- Learning about ethical considerations
- Making and describing data visualisations
Session 7: Creating survey questions
- 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
Session 8: Data collection methods
- 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 “rectangular” spreadsheet of their data (getting to know the class)
Session 9: Exploring the class data using CODAP
- Making data visualisations – using data cards and CODAP
- Writing about data visualisations – using “I notice…” statements
Session 10: Sharing findings and critiquing findings of others
- Preparing findings for sharing with others
- Sharing their findings
- Critiquing the findings of others
Session 11: CensusAtSchool class data
- Posing investigative questions from our class CensusAtSchool data
- Making and describing data displays
- Answering our investigative questions – conclusion
Session 12: How do we compare with other students of a similar age?
- Posing investigative questions about another group from CensusAtSchool – similar age
- Downloading data from CensusAtSchool to use
- Making and describing data displays
- Communicating findings
Session 13: Introduction to probability
- Exploring words used to describe probability
- Exploring chance statements in stories
Session 14: Dice misconceptions
- Exploring claims about dice with probability experiments
Sessions 15-16: Biased bingo
- Exploring probability beyond coin tossing and dice rolling
- Exploring a probability activity where the theoretical probability of a certain outcome can be calculated
Session 17: Fair spinners
- 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
Session 18: Blog post for an external audience
- Students are communicating findings to an external audience
- Using technology to communicate findings
