Year 6 If the World were 100 People: Teaching Plan
- By Pip Arnold
- Updated 8 July, 2024
- Added 6 July, 2022
A teaching plan covering statistics and probability achievement objectives
- Introduction to if the world were 100 people concept
- Understanding about percentages
- Explore making data visualisations using a 100 people chart for given percentages
- 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
- Deciding the region of New Zealand to explore
- Deciding on topics of interest
- Sourcing secondary data (existing information) to use to create a “If _____ were 100 people” presentation
- Exploring and interrogating data visualisations
- Deciding on visualisations to use for their “If ______ were 100 people” presentation
- Creating visualisations to use in the “If ________ were 100 people” presentation
- Use a variety of data visualisations
- Making summary statements about the data
- Starting to use technology and statistical software to create their data visualisations
- Students make their videos, check them, and share them with their teacher
- Students prepare their own evidence of undertaking a statistical enquiry to share with others
- Introduction to time series graphs
- Exploring Gapminder trends graphs
- Reading and describing time series graphs
- Exploring Figure.NZ graphs
- Attributing the charts used
- Writing descriptions of time series graphs including seasonal variation
- Introduction to Common Online Data Analysis Platform – CODAP, a free browser-based statistical analysis tool
- Using CODAP to explore time series datasets
- Record results of a simple probability experiment
- Interpret results and decide if a game is fair
- Record results of a probability experiment on a tally chart
- Discuss experimental and theoretical probabilities
- Use technology to do a large number of trials
Additional probability activities could include:
- The rest of the I’m Spinning (NZ Maths) lessons
- Determine an experimental estimate of the probability of simple events using frequency tables.
- Determine the theoretical probability of simple events using percentages, fractions, and decimals.
- Systematically find all possible outcomes of an event using tree diagrams and organised lists.
- What’s in the bag? (NZ Maths)
- Make predictions based on data collected.
- Identify all possible outcomes of an event.
- Assign probabilities to simple events using fractions (1/2, 1/6, etc).
- Long Running (NZ Maths)
- Take samples and use them to make predictions.
- Compare theoretical and experimental probabilities.
