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Investigation: Reaction Time
John Curtain Collage of the Arts | 8 |
This activity including Rubric was developed by maths teacher, Donna Buckley from John Curtin College of the Arts in WA.
Use CensusAtSchool data to investigate reaction times and whether certain factors could affect reaction times.
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Eye Colour
Regency
Park Primary School | 5-6 |
Use CensusAtSchool data to discover if your school class is similar to others by comparing students’ eye colours.
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Taking Real
Data Further Mathematically
Presbyterian Ladies College
| 11-12 |
This activity was developed by maths teacher, Andrew Stewart from Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne.
The activity and accompanying Excel spreadsheet are designed for year 11-12 students to analyse categorical CensusAtSchool data.
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| In Pursuit of Beauty
| 10-12 |
Use CensusAtSchool data and ClassPad calculators to investigate gender and physical characteristics variables of students.
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CensusAtSchool Data from Albany and Perth
Albany Senior High School
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Jan Forte developed an extensive list of questions for her students to answer using data about students from Albany and Perth. This activity gives students the chance to investigate and discuss issues about data quality and sampling.
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A Picture Tells
A Thousand Words
Canterbury Girls Secondary College
| 8 |
Use CensusAtSchool data about students’ use of technology at home to format spreadsheets and display data.
Use CensusAtSchool data to learn some of the built in functions of Excel such as minimum, maximum and median.
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Probability
Scotch College
| 9 |
Students generate a dataset from the CensusAtSchool Random Sampler containing 50 male and female samples. Using the data contained in their samples, students find percentages, predict probabilities and compound events.
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Using CensusAtSchool as a Business
Education Resource
| 5-10 |
This article appeared in Compak Issue 2 in 2009. As well as providing an overview of CensusAtSchool, this article has three activities covering topics such as: sources of income; marketing surveys; and income and gender.
This activity covers: Economics, Civics and Citizenship and Commerce.
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| How Much Can You Earn?
| Middle Years |
Use ABS data to explore average employee earnings for men and women in particular industries.
This activity covers: Economics, ICT, Financial Literacy and Mathematics.
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| The Very Challenging Trivia Quiz on Australia
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Use ABS data to answer questions about Australia, its population and characteristics.
This activity covers: Literacy / Numeracy, ESL and Civics and Citizenship and is suitable for all year levels as well as Adult Education.
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| Migration and Estimated Resident Population | Middle Years |
Use ABS Social Datasets to explore changes in migration patterns and estimated resident population.
This activity covers: SOSE, Geography and Literacy/ Numeracy.
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Australia's Top 50 Countries of Birth, Estimated Resident Population, Median Age and Sex Ratio
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Middle Years
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Uses a new ABS Social Dataset to explore countries with the highest number of people residing in Australia, and the differences between these countries in terms of ERP, Age and Sex Ratio.
This activity covers: Humanities subjects.
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| Case Studies |
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Mathew Flinders Girls Secondary College |
Students completed the CensusAtSchool ‘Who Am I’ activity as the mathematics component of their introductory unit for Year 9. Working in pairs, students compared their classmates’ physical characteristics with a random sample of Year 9 students taken from the CensusAtSchool database. Students then measured the central tendency of their datasets by calculating mean, median and mode.
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Anglesea Primary School |
Anglesea Primary School integrated CensusAtSchool data with a major project focused on Inquiry-based learning. The project was given to grade 5 and 6 students who had an hour a day to work on their chosen Inquiry Topic. At the end of term students gave a class presentation of their findings to their parents and peers.
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Amaroo School |
Margaret Wong, Head of Mathematics, developed a three part CensusAtSchool assignment for her Year 8 and 9 classes. First, students selected a CensusAtSchool sample and summarised the data using tables and graphs. Then students surveyed their classmates and compared the results with a CensusAtSchool sample. Finally, students presented their findings and explained how the data could be used to promote a product or service.
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Carlton South Public School |
Ronelle Hewes introduced her Year 5 and 6 students to CensusAtSchool data by getting them to pose a question relating to data contained in CensusAtSchool Questionnaires. Once students had developed their question, they identified the data necessary for answering their question and generated an appropriate data set in the Random Sampler. Students then analysed the data using percentages or averages, created a table and a graph that best illustrated their findings, and wrote a statement to help explain the data.
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