Direct instruction
The learning intention of this lesson was to understand what sampling is and why it is used. I wanted their understanding of sampling to come from a tangible experience - by actually sampling something physical themselves.
This video shows the class taking samples of around 16 sweets, then combining with another student to get a sample of around 32 sweets, and then combining with a group of four to get samples of around 64 sweets. The students record their samples at each step and then compare to the whole class population.
Reflection
This lesson was a fun way to investigate sampling. I realised that my instructions about joining groups when sampling was confusing, next time I would take the sweets back at each step and then give new and bigger samples to groups of 2, then 4 and then 8. Watching this video I heard myself say “I” too many times - “I am going to do this”, “What I did”, “I am going to send an email”. I was taking too much control of the lesson and I should have given the students more voice when discussing the results and the students could have co-create the letter to the manufacturer, rather than it coming from me.
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