Data collection tasks
- 1. DATA COLLECTION TASKS EDUC W200 Week 9
- 2. WHERE DOES THE INFO COME FROM? • Data usually comes from two sources: o Collecting your own original data • Surveys, questionnaires, interviews, cell phone polls, etc • Sensor-based data: heart-rate monitors, motion detectors, temperature sensors. o Finding existing data • Existing databases online • Searching websites for information and compile it • Existing books, poems, histories, newspapers, articles, etc EDUC W200 Week 9
- 3. TYPES OF DATA COLLECTION TASKS? • Surveying each other about our heights, weights, and gender, looking for trends (math/statistics) • Collecting quotes about a subject (language arts) • Taking measurements of three different plants over the course of a month (science) • Looking up the parties of presidential election winners and recording them for each election year (social studies) EDUC W200 Week 9
- 4. EXAMPLES OF DATA COLLECTION TASKS o Comparing multiple poems, and recording their meter/structure (English) • Looking for repeated rhythmic patterns o Data collection during physical exertion (Health/Physical Education) • Heart rate monitors or pedometers o Recording various regular verbs and their gerund form (Foreign language) • Looking for patterns in the form change EDUC W200 Week 9
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- #2: Katie likes this video and suggest us to play this during the break.0:00-3:00Students perform a lab to explain why density = mass/volume
- #4: Data collection tasks usually work with data from two sources:Collecting your own original dataSurveys, questionnaires, interviews, cell phone polls, etcSensor-based data: heart-rate monitors, motion detectors, temperature sensors.Finding existing dataDatabases on anything onlineAsking students to search websites for information and compile ithttp://farm5.staticflickr.com/4013/4376443940_8d505894d8_o.jpg
- #5: Surveying each other about our heights, weights, and gender, looking for trends (math/statistics)Collecting quotes about autumn (language arts)Taking measurements of three different plants over the course of a month (science)Looking up the parties of presidential election winners and recording them for each election year (social studies)
- #6: Great examples:http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/08/08/using-an-ipod-touch-in-the-primary-classroom/For instance: Students listen to various stories. There are many free story podcasts available from the iTunes store. Some good ones include Storynory and The Story Home. We often have students practice various reading strategies as they are listening such as visualizing, tuning in to interesting words (and listing), coming up with questions etc.English class example that used newspaper. This teacher used their vacation trip to collect examples and recreate several. Teachers can easily transfer this into scans of newspapers, receipts, and digital pictures as a base. I have seen this used with Perzi as students pulled out keywords. Article (with scanned examples): http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/Writings/Papers/AuthMat81.htm