:Bats (Y4)
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Approach: Station Level: Year 4
Focus: Information sources and searching processes
Resources: Video recording on laptop computer, cartoon card
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Questions / instructions:

This activity uses the computer.
This activity is called Bats. We’ll start by watching a short video about Calvin. Calvin has to do a study about bats, and he asks Hobbes to help him.
Click the Bats button. The video will start.
Hand student cartoon card.
If you were Hobbes, what would you say to Calvin so that he would know how to find information about bats?
Where could Calvin go to find information about bats?
[Video shows four still cartoons in sequence, identical to the cartoon card above;
voice-over same as text shown. Click to enlarge images]
 
% responses
2005 ('01)
Y4
mentioned initial thought about what information was going to be needed or useful
2 (1)
Sources mentioned:
computer (internet, computer encyclopaedia, etc.)
48 (44)
 
encyclopaedia (book or not specified)
20 (14)
library
61 (73)
zoo, museum, information centre
22 (18)
experts (museum curator, zookeeper,biologist)
14 (13)
teacher, family, friends
33 (31)
fieldwork finding and looking at bats
35 (25)
Searching process and resources:
clear account of good searching procedures for more than one resource
2 (0)
  
clear account of good searching procedure for one resource
6 (2)
  
vague
17 (5)
  
none
75 (93)
  
Total score:
6–11
3 (1)
  

5
7 (4)
  
4
13 (10)
  
3
27 (27)
  
2
34 (34)
  
1
15 (20)
  
0
1 (4)
  

Commentary:
There is some evidence of reduced emphasis on using a library as an appropriate source of information and greater interest in fieldwork. Results were a little higher in 2005 than in 2001.
 
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