Year 5 Exploring Census: Teaching Plan
- By Pip Arnold
- Updated 23 June, 2024
- Added 22 June, 2022
A teaching plan covering statistics and probability achievement objectives
- Introduction to data science and statistics
- Finding out about Dollar Street, New Zealand Census, and CensusAtSchool 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 Whakapapa me te whanaungatanga | Culture and identity from Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum
- 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
- 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 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
- 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 “rectangular” spreadsheet of their data (getting to know the class)
- Making data visualisations – using data cards and CODAP
- Writing about data visualisations – using “I notice…” statements
- Preparing findings for sharing with others
- Sharing their findings
- Critiquing the findings of others
- Posing investigative questions from our class CensusAtSchool data
- Making and describing data displays
- Answering our investigative questions – conclusion
- Posing investigative questions about another group from CensusAtSchool – similar age
- Downloading data from CensusAtSchool 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
