:Worm Farm
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Approach: Station Level: Year 8
Focus:Notetaking and summarising  
Resources: Two information cards about worms.
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% responses
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Article 1
Article 2
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Questions/instructions
1. Read the information which is circled on the two cards.

2. From each article, write down two useful pieces of information about worms and compost. 		 

Article 1 — 7 possible specific points
note 1:
noted 1 point from article
82
noted other valid information from article
10
note 2:
noted 1 point from article
71
noted other valid information from article
15
Article 2 — 7 possible specific points
note 1:
noted 1 point from article
85
noted other valid information from article
5
note 2:
noted 1 point from article
78
noted other valid information from article
7

3. Use your pieces of information to write one sentence which tells about worms and compost.

  
Summary sentence  
pieces of information used (notes):
3 or 4
36
2
32
1
16
used no relevant information
16
extent to which sentence captured main points of the 2 articles:



very high
14
quite high
26
moderate
29
low
31
used single sentence
 
73
Total score:
10–11
27
8–9
29
6–7
21
4–5
14
0–3
9
Commentary
Students were generally successful in noting key points from the two articles, but many struggled to capture these key issues in a single sentence summary.
 
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