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 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 B3 Butterfly sampling article.doc (the scientific article) Information poster A3.ppt (a slide of the information poster) O1 Oak sampling questions.doc (the leading questions for students to answer) O3 Oak sampling article.doc (the scientific article) Tags.ppt (a slide of the required tags for each sampling technique) W1 Whale sampling questions.doc (the leading questions for students to answer) W3 Whale sampling article.doc (the scientific article) Z1 Zebra sampling questions.doc (the leading questions for students to answer) Z3 Zebra sampling article.doc (the scientific article)
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: B2 Butterfly differentiated materials.doc, O2 Oak Tree Differentiated materials.doc Materials for the less able students W4 Whale sampling differentiated article.doc and Z4 Zebra sampling differentiated materials.doc