Sampling techniques

Teaching approach. This lesson offers students an opportunity to use their existing knowledge to analyse a ‘real scientific publication’ and its language^(ta) and link this to scientific method^(ta).

• They use study skills^(topic) to skim read, make sense of complex language, and use visualisation^(ta) to select relevant information
• They engage in collaborative^(tool) group work^(ta) using reasoning^(ta) and skills in peer assessment^(ta)
• They engage in dialogue^(ta) and questioning^(ta) to explore ideas together
• They also think about how to present information using ICT⁽ⁱ⁾ tools)
  

Resource details
Title	Sampling techniques
Topic	[[Topics/Study skills|Study skills]],  [[Topics/Sampling|Sampling]]
Teaching approach	[[Teaching Approaches/Assessment|Assessment]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Dialogue|Dialogue]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Questioning|Questioning]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Language|Language]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Group work|Group work]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Visualisation|Visualisation]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Reasoning|Reasoning]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Scientific method|Scientific method]]
Learning Objectives	By the end of this series of lessons students should be able to: • Describe each of the sampling techniques used to assess the population size of more than one organism. • Explain the advantages of a special sampling technique when compared with other methods. • Communicate the results and conclusion of the supplied scientific articles describing sampling population size.
Format / structure	This lesson idea includes 16 files: • 4 files for the less able students (B2, O2, W2, Z2 & Z4) - Word • 4 scientific articles (B3, O3, W3 & Z3)- Word • 1 tags slide show and 1 poster - PowerPoint
Subject	[[Resources/Biology|Biology]],  [[Resources/Science|Science]]
Age of students / grade	[[Resources/KS5|KS5]],  [[Resources/Secondary|Secondary]],  [[Resources/KS4|KS4]]
Additional Resources/material needed	Scientific articles: • B3 Butterfly sampling article.doc • O3 Oak sampling article.doc • W3 Whale sampling article.doc For the less able students: • B2 Butterfly differentiated materials.doc • O2 Oak Tree Differentiated materials.doc • W4 Whale sampling differentiated article.doc • Z4 Zebra sampling differentiated materials.doc
Files and resources to view and download	This lesson idea offers the opportunity to learn about sampling and there are a number of questions to be answered. The following documents are provided: • B1 Butterfly sampling questions.doc (the leading questions for students to answer) • Information poster A3.ppt (a slide of the information poster) • O1 Oak sampling questions.doc (the leading questions for students to answer) • Tags.ppt (a slide of the required tags for each sampling technique) • W1 Whale sampling questions.doc (the leading questions for students to answer) • Z1 Zebra sampling questions.doc (the leading questions for students to answer) • Z3 Zebra sampling article.doc (the scientific article)