Approach:
Station |
Level:
Year 4
and year 8 |
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Focus:
Interpreting
a table
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Resources:
Activities chart
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72KB |
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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 |
|
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%
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. |