Resources by ExperimentsAtSchool
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An Italian Feast
This resource for Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four students provides some statistics about the eating habits of children in Italy and asks students to compare and contrast these with their own eating habits. Through this activity, students have to interpret charts and graphs, plan how to collect data and design a...
Are You a Hare or a Tortoise? *suitable for home teaching*
This resource for Key Stage Two and Key Stage Three students involves extracting and interpreting information presented in tables, graphs and charts. Students investigate how activity and calorie intake are related and design their own calorie diary. Students develop skills in interpreting bar charts and pie charts...
Balanced Meal
This resource for Key Stage Three students provides detailed information about each food type and gives examples and daily portion allowances. The resource would link to studies about food, diet and health, and the life processes and nutritional needs of humans.
Designing Experiments
In this activity students are asked to consider how they would improve five amusing experiments by evaluating aspects of the experimental design including control of variables, sample size, bias, control groups and quality of data.
ExperimentsAtSchool allows students to collect and analyse experimental data to draw practical conclusions in subjects including science, geography and psychology. Aimed at students aged 7 to 16, the experiments help them to develop and improve their data handling and statistical skills.
Each experiment has...
How Much Have You Grown Today?
This resource uses height data from the pilot of CensusAtSchool to encourage Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four students to investigate growth. They are asked to draw conclusions using both calculations and graphs and also consider other factors affecting growth. Students develop skills in interpreting tables,...
How Old?
Using the data from CensusAtSchool 2006/2007, this data analysis resource looks at trends in life expectancy in populations. Students consider both the primary data collected from CensusAtSchool and secondary data about life expectancy and major causes of death. A plenary asks students to consider what they have...
Just What Is a Pulse Rate?
In this activity, Key Stage Three students investigate pulse rate and its relationship with activity and life style. Using real data from CensusAtSchool 2002/2003 they see how difficult it can be to measure pulse rate accurately. Students are required to interpret graphs, tables and charts.
Let's Compare Feet!
This resource contains a starter activity in which Key Stage Four which explores data analysis and what conclusions can and cannot be drawn from scatter graphs. This can be used to discuss correlation, trends, continuous and discontinuous data, extrapolation and lines of best fit.
Making a Healthy Plateful
In this activity, Key Stage Two students are given a 'draw and label' diagram about balanced diets. A pie chart is given, showing portion sizes for the different food types appropriate to a healthy diet. Students then use this data to answer questions about which foods should be eaten most or least. The resource...