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]] Property "Teaching approach" (as page type) with input value "The pedagogical purpose of this lesson for the learners is: </br>A. An opportunity for them to analyse a ‘real scientific publication’. The selected articles are very demanding. There is no need to fully understand them" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category:The pedagogical purpose of this lesson for the learners is: A. An opportunity for them to analyse a ‘real scientific publication’. The selected articles are very demanding. There is no need to fully understand them]]Property "Teaching approach" (as page type) with input value "But it offers the students an opportunity to learn how to skim such materials and pick up the relevant information. </br>B. As a result of the teamwork this lesson should enable students to be critical of their colleagues work and enable them to improve their own and others’ information.. See below for the full pedagogic rationale.</br>C. The summary stage should enable students to produce and present the results of their investigation." contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Category:but it offers the students an opportunity to learn how to skim such materials and pick up the relevant information. B. As a result of the teamwork this lesson should enable students to be critical of their colleagues work and enable them to improve their own and others’ information. . See below for the full pedagogic rationale. C. The summary stage should enable students to produce and present the results of their investigation.]]
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 Question worksheets, below (B1, O1, W1 & Z1) - Word • 1 tags slide and 1 poster, below - PowerPoint • 5 files for the less able students, above (B2, O2, W2, Z2 & Z4) - Word • 4 scientific articles, above (B3, O3, W3 & Z3) - Word/PDF/Links - coming soon
Subject	[[Resources/Biology|Biology]],  [[Resources/Science|Science]]
Age of students / grade	[[Resources/KS5|KS5]],  [[Resources/Secondary|Secondary]],  [[Resources/KS4|KS4]]
Additional Resources/material needed	For the less able students: • B2 Butterfly differentiated materials.doc • O2 Oak Tree Differentiated materials.doc • W2 Whale differentiated materials.doc • Z2 Zebra differentiated materials.doc Scientific articles: • B3 Butterfly sampling article.doc • O3 Oak sampling article.doc • W3 Whale sampling article.doc • Z3 Zebra sampling article.doc Scientific articles for the less able students: • O4 Oak scientific differentiation article • W4 Whale sampling differentiated article.doc • Z4 Zebra sampling differentiated materials.doc
Files and resources to view and download	• B1 Butterfly Question worksheet.doc • O1 Oak Question worksheet.doc • W1 Whale Question worksheet.doc • Z1 Zebra Question worksheet.doc • Information poster A3.ppt (a slide of the information poster) • Tags.ppt (a slide of the required tags for each sampling technique)