Promoting Health Awareness

This lesson/project idea will develop a knowledge and understanding of statistics, applying this knowledge in a real life context. Young people will work in teams (as statisticians) with the task of collecting, organising, interpreting and presenting a set of data from a questionnaire involving health and lifestyle.

Broad Outcomes of learning
• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced e.g. calculating the mean, median, mode and range. Constructing bar graphs and stem & leaf diagrams
• Enterprising skills improved by developing confidence, self awareness, positive attitude; increasing motivation to learning; taking responsibility and making decisions; consideration of others through group work and discussion; raising achievement and fostering ambition
• Developed employability skills: Communication, planning, organisation, time management, researching, co-operating, contributing, analysing, reporting, presenting, marketing, distributing etc
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making decisions about what questions to include in the questionnaire. What useful information to include in the leaflet
• Learners have developed 4 capacities of CfE
Relevance to curriculum
• Supports CfE Mathematics
• Relevance of how curriculum topic on statistics is relevant to work and life (in particular, large
corporations) and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a real situation

This lesson/project idea will develop a knowledge and understanding of statistics, applying this knowledge in a real life context. Young people will work in teams (as statisticians) with the task of collecting, organising, interpreting and presenting a set of data from a questionnaire involving health and lifestyle.

Broad Outcomes of learning

  • Subject knowledge gained and enhanced e.g. calculating the mean, median, mode and range. Constructing bar graphs and stem & leaf diagrams
  • Enterprising skills improved by developing confidence, self awareness, positive attitude; increasing motivation to learning; taking responsibility and making decisions; consideration of others through group work and discussion; raising achievement and fostering ambition
  • Developed employability skills: Communication, planning, organisation, time management, researching, co-operating, contributing, analysing, reporting, presenting, marketing, distributing etc
  • Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making decisions about what questions to include in the questionnaire. What useful information to include in the leaflet
  • Learners have developed 4 capacities of CfE

Relevance to curriculum

  • Supports CfE Mathematics
  • Relevance of how curriculum topic on statistics is relevant to work and life (in particular, large corporations) and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a real situation

 

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