
Data Resource for Primary Teachers
In preparation for the lesson, students will need to bring along an image of their pet. Those who do not own a pet, they can bring along an image of a pet they might like to own.
- Pose the question to students: ‘What is the most common pet for students in the class?’
- Invite students to respond to the following questions:
- ‘How can we find out which animal is the most common pet for students in the class?’
- ‘What do we need to do to find the answer?’
- Encourage students to consider effective methods of collecting and usefully recording information by asking the following:
- ‘Who needs to be asked?’
- ‘What do we need to ask them?’
- ‘How would we remember the information that we gather?’
- ‘How should we collect the information so that we can remember it?’
- Divide the class into small groups and provide time for each group to plan a method for collecting and recording the information.
- Re-group and invite each group to share its ideas. Display the suggestions and name them Methods for Collecting Data.
- Pose the question to students: ‘What is data?’
- Use the ‘What is Data‘ PowerPoint provided to explain the term ‘data’:
- Data can be numbers, images, text, sound.
- When data is turned into information it can be used to make decisions.
- Text and number data can be collected.
- Data can be organised (put into groups) to make it meaningful.
- Refer to the students’ ideas about collecting and recording data for their investigation about pets.
- Discuss each group’s method of collecting data
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