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Data Collection Planning

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Data Collection Planning

Students collecting data with clipboards and surveys

📋 Part 1: Understanding Data Collection Methods

1. Which method would be best for finding out students' favourite lunch foods?

Survey with questions

Measuring with a ruler

Counting cars in the car park

Observing the weather

2. When collecting data about how many books students read, who would be good participants? (Check all that apply)

Students in our class

Students in Year 5

Students in the whole school

Only the teacher

3. What tool would help you collect data about students' heights?

Tally chart

Measuring tape

Survey questions

Stopwatch

📝 Part 2: Planning Your Data Collection

4. Your investigative question: "What type of pets do students in our school have?"

Who will you collect data from? (Your participants)

What data will you collect? (Your variable)

How will you collect the data? (Your method)

5. What challenges might you face when collecting this data?

🤝 Part 3: Giving Feedback

6. Read another group's data collection plan. Write one positive comment about their plan:
7. Write one helpful suggestion to improve their plan:
8. After receiving feedback on your plan, what will you change or improve?

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