Transition Year Courses

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What's in Transition Year Schools Activity Pack?

Theme:
Making Sense of us!

Overview
This activity demonstrates to students through hands on experience, many of the aspects of completing, analysing and reporting a survey. The survey can then act as a time capsule and this will involve future years using the data and statistics as a comparative model.

Students will learn to analyse and report on their survey. A vital aspect is that students will in turn analyse their own material and extrapolate from it wider concepts and understandings about their attitudes, habits and motivations. The questions on the survey are classified according to these three areas.

The activity should involve all transition year classes. By using it as a time capsule it is intended that this exercise will act as a snapshot of the present but in turn it will also give students a comparative portrait for the future.

Class Time
It is intended that four class periods should be spent on this subject.

• Class 1:
  Did you know? (handout 1)
  Getting started exercise
  That's easy for you to say (handout 2)
  Census Activity (part)
• Class 2:
  Census Activity (remainder)
  Discuss questionnaire content (handout 3)
  Discuss how information will be processed and collected.
  Filling out survey.
• Class 3:
  Compiling results.
• Class 4:
  Students prepare report.
  Analysis of report.

Learning Objectives

• Process of survey
• Compiling results of survey
• Report on analysis of survey of results
• Discussion and organisation of time capsule.
• Confidentiality is a primary concern here so it is intended that students will write their name on the detachable slip, which has a corresponding file number. However the actual survey will only have a file number. The idea is that should students wish to return to their file in years to come, it can be located through this simple and effective system. The detached slips and corresponding surveys should be filed in a box and kept in the room of the teacher or co-ordinator.

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