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Resources
Tangible Resources
Smartphone or computer
Preparation
Prepare a short presentation or talk about what makes a good survey.
Goals, messages & concepts
Specific goals
- To collect data on snack-related habits during the day among friends and family in the community.
Specific messages
- Gathering data from a large number of people in the community makes it possible to better understand community habits and work to improve wellbeing.
Main terms
- Wellbeing
- Habits
Practices & skills
STEM practices
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Planning and carrying out investigations
Soft skills
- Teamwork and collaboration
Management skills
- Planning
- Use of resources
Course of activity
step 1
Explain the purpose of the overall project to the students and make sure they understand the purpose of this survey.
step 2
Deliver a presentation to students about what it takes to make a quality survey, highlighting the collection of meaningful data. Discuss:
- Determining the purpose of the survey
- What do we want to know from the community?
- A survey should be specific, understandable, neutral and complete
- Survey questions can be open or closed questions
- Survey questions should stand in a logical order
- Think about ethics - ensure the privacy of respondents is guaranteed.
step 3
Students will formulate questions for their survey to provide them with insights they need to compare snack habits in their community.
step 4
Divide the class into working groups to formulating questions per subject:
- What do people snack on?
- When do they tend to snack?
- Where do they do it?
- How much do they snack?
- How do they feel when they snack?
step 5
Students will digitally collect all the questions in a grid on Padlet.com (or other suitable software), and discuss the questions to determine the best ones.
step 6
Students will upload their final questions onto a Google form.
step 7
Students should send out the Google form survey by email or WhatsApp to collect data on snack-related habits of family members, other students and peers in the neighbourhood.