This week we watched a short 'Sid the Science Kid' clip about data handling and the use of charts to record information.
This week we kept a chart of how many boys and how many girls came to school each day. We used our chart to find out if there were more girls or more boys and how many more there were. We used the numbers on the side axis to find out how many of each came every day.
To continue our thinking about how we can use charts, we weighed a selection of classroom objects. We made sure we chose only one kind of counter to balance it against while using the scales. We collected our information (data) on the chart.
For even more extension we counted the number of letters in our names. We used the opportunity to practice writing our names using the correct letter formation on paper, then wrote each letter on a cube. Finally, we put all the cubes together and to compare our names against others in the cube chart.
Over the next few weeks, we will take time to learn and grow our understanding about how collecting data might help us in every day life.
For even more extension we counted the number of letters in our names. We used the opportunity to practice writing our names using the correct letter formation on paper, then wrote each letter on a cube. Finally, we put all the cubes together and to compare our names against others in the cube chart.
Over the next few weeks, we will take time to learn and grow our understanding about how collecting data might help us in every day life.
Thanks for you work on these posts Elaine, it is great to see what the children get up to! I particularly liked reading this post (and the following post on Nanobugs) not just as a parent but as a as a secondary science teacher. I am curious about how some of the scientific concepts are taught in the primary school and this seems like such a great hands-on way to explore some of these ideas.
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