OER4Schools/Collecting and interpreting information: Difference between revisions

{{activity|stgw| on collecting data for analysis.|5 }}  After the discussion, assess if the resources that you have prepared so far would be adequate for the students to embark on the data collection process (whether is it in the form of experiment or enquiring through the Internet/asking people). If not, make some changes or consider creating additional worksheets or perhaps a spreadsheet for the students. If you would like your students to make a prediction and/or form a hypothesis, make this clear on your worksheet.  You should make sure that you have included an ICT element in each of your enquiry ideas.

As an aside:  Once your students are used to working in the spirit of enquiry you can pose short enquiry problems to be solved for homework or at various stages of a lesson.  For example, the teacher in the above clip might have asked the students to work out a solution to the problem of the measuring tape not starting at the floor with the proviso that the solution should not include measuring Martha again or moving the measuring tape.  The answer of course is to measure the gap between the tape and the floor and add this to Martha's incorrect height measurement.  By giving the students a few minutes to discuss the problem in groups of thee or four, they may have come up with this (or perhaps another even better) solution - students can sometimes surprise us with their ingenuity.  Once the size of the gap has been worked out, this result can be added to all other measurements carried out using that tape - the students will see this as a worthwhile exercise because it means that they don't have to measure everyone who used that tape again!