Garden Grubs
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Approach: Station Level: Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Constructing a food web
Resources: Computer program on laptop computer
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Questions/instructions:  


This activity uses the computer.

Click on the button that says
Garden Grubs.
video voiceover:
Here is the start of a garden food web. In each box put an animal so the arrow points to the food that the animal eats. Use the computer mouse to drag the animals to the box you think they should go in.
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% responses
2007 ('03)
     
y4
y8
 
thrush eats snail
76 (81)
91 (96)
 
ladybird eats aphid
54 (63)
76 (82)

hedgehog eats snail and slug
60 (64)
81 (84)
 
snail eats plants
68 (69)
83 (87)

Total score:
4
46 (52)
71 (78)
3
0 (0)
0 (0)
2
29 (29)
21 (16)
1
16 (12)
5 (5)
0
9 (7)
3 (1)
Subgroup Analysis [Click on charts to enlarge] :
Year 4
Year 8
Commentary:
Students showed substantial progress between year 4 and year 8, with little change between 2003 and 2007.
At year 8 level, there were particularly large performance differences between Pakeha and Mäori students, and between Pakeha and Pasifika students.