:School Camp Activities
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Approach:   Station Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Interpreting a table 
Resources: Activities chart
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Questions/instructions:

The children at Tahi School are at school camp. They do lots of different activities every day.
Look closely at the Activities Chart, then answer the questions.

SCHOOL CAMP ACTIVITIES CHART
Names of Groups
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Explorers
Archery F
Confidence
Course A
Water Safety B
Seashore
Study C
Tent Pitching
Crazy Campers
Yachting E
Archery F
Confidence
Course A
Water Safety B
Seashore
Study C
Adventurers
Tent Pitching
Yachting E
Archery F
Confidence
Course A
Water Safety B
Cool Kids
Seashore
Study C
Tent Pitching
Yachting E
Archery F
Confidence
Course A

 
% responses
2003 ('99)
y4
y8
1. How many different activities are there?
6
20 (23)
64 (62)
5
15 (14)
12 (13)
2. Look at the Activities Chart. The teacher has forgotten to put a letter after the words “Tent Pitching”.
What letter should she have written?
D
48 (52)
76 (75)
3. Which group does the Seashore Study first?
Cool Kids
56 (53)
84 (81)
4. Which activity is not done by the Explorers?
yachting
60 (60)
87 (89)
5. If a group started at the Tent Pitching, what activity would they do next?
yachting
75 (77)
90 (90)
Total Score:


6
10 (10)
50 (43)
4–5
28 (30)
28 (36)
2–3
37 (39)
17 (17)
0–1
25 (21)
5 (4)
Commentary:
For both year 4 and year 8 students, there was no change over four years in their ability to read a chart of activities. Forty percent more year 8 than year 4 students got all questions correct in 2003.
 
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