Project Planner Ourselves Week 3 - What We Like To Do
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  Week 3:

The purpose of this week is for each group of students to share details of their hobbies. The students write an overall account of the group’s hobbies.

The students are provided with the opportunity to discuss their television programme preferences. By conducting a survey of the television programmes they watch, the students collect, record and analyse numerical data.

The students use the data and text accounts submitted in week 2 to make comparisons of how fit and healthy they are compared with other participating students.

Curriculum focus Learning Objectives Curriculum focus Learning Objectives
Mathematics
  • To be able to collect, present and interpret data.
  • To be able to compare data in graphical form.
ICT
  • To be able to communicate and handle information.
  • To be able to present information with an awareness of audience.
  • To be able to use a variety of word-processing functions.
English
  • To be able to communicate with others.
  • To be able to organise and explain information.
  • To be able to write for a variety of audiences.
  • To be able to share written accounts.
  • To be able to read for information.
Personal, Social and Health Education
  • To be able to compare differing lifestyles.
  • To develop good relationships and respect the differences between people.
Activities
The main focus of this week is for the students to share details of their hobbies and to discuss their television programme preferences.

Step Title Notes
1 Review Time Compare previous week’s work published on the project web site.
2 Hobbies Individual text account.
3 What I Like to Watch on Television Whole class data collection.
4 Publish Our Work Upload and publish the data collection results and text overview to project web site.

Resources Vocabulary Expectations for this week
Data collection sheets
  • Hobbies Survey
  • What We Like to Watch on TV Survey

Support sheets

  • Activity writing sheets

Optional

  • Digital camera

Keywords support sheet

tally, graph, chart, list, data, total, survey, collect, criteria, label, axis, sport, swimming, football, dancing, gymnastics, baseball, basketball, ice, skating, athletics, martial, arts, fishing, sailing, television, news, ‘soaps’, cartoons, films, game shows

evaluate, compare, retrieve information, completion, publish, audience, collaborate

 Most students will be able to
  • enter data with accuracy
  • interpret data using a tally chart
  • share information about a topic of interest

Some students will be able to

  • interpret data from a variety of graphs
  • solve problems using information displayed in graph form
  • present information in a simple presentation form

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