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Data Collection and Categories
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Data Collection and Categories
📊 Part 1: Understanding Data and Categories
1. What is an investigative question?
A question about your homework
A question you can answer by collecting information
A question about reading
2. Which of these are good investigative questions for our class? (Tick all that apply)
What is our class's favourite fruit?
What colour shoes are we wearing today?
How old is the teacher?
What pets do we have at home?
3. If we wanted to find out about favourite fruits, what categories could we use?
4. Circle the best investigative question:
What is the weather like?
How do students in our class get to school?
What time is lunch?
📝 Part 2: Collecting and Recording Data
5. Look at this data about favourite colours in a class:
Red: |||| (4 students)
Blue: |||| || (7 students)
Green: ||| (3 students)
Yellow: |||| | (6 students)
6. Which colour is the most popular?
The most popular colour is _______________.
7. Which colour is the least popular?
The least popular colour is _______________.
8. How many more students chose blue than green?
9. Practice making tally marks. Show 5 students choosing apples:
🔍 Part 3: Data Detective
10. Plan your own investigation! Write an investigative question about your classmates:
11. What categories will you use to collect data for your question?
12. What do you think the results might show? Make a prediction:
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