In this activity, students will design a scientific survey on climate change opinions, collect data, and write a report based on their statistical analysis.
Students will learn about different types of questions and ways to collect unbiased information.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The teacher's guide provides information on how to help students create an effective survey.
Students will gain skills in analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and writing reports.
This activity will help students to understand the important role of research, analysis, and communication.
Additional Prerequisites
The student worksheet can be printed or used digitally.
Students should have a basic understanding of climate change to be able to design the survey.
Differentiation
In social studies classes, students could discuss the results of their surveys and analyze whether the results accurately represent the community's opinions on climate change.
In statistics classes, students could present the survey results using pie charts or bar graphs.
Students could work in groups to come up with different solutions to stop climate change based on the views presented in the survey results.
The resource provides a guide for conducting a climate survey and eliciting people's perspectives on climate change. This is recommended for teaching.
Standards
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
Dimension 1: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
D1.1.6-8 Explain how a question represents key ideas in the field.
D1.5.6-8 Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.
Dimension 3: Gathering and Evaluating Sources
D3.1.6-8 Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.
D3.2.6-8 Evaluate the credibility of a source by determining its relevance and intended use.
Dimension 4: Communicating and Critiquing Conclusions
D4.2.6-8 Construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequence, examples, and details with relevant information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations.
Common Core Math Standards (CCSS.MATH)
Statistics & Probability (6-8)
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.A.1 Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the answers. For example, "How old am I?" is not a statistical question, but "How old are the students in my school?" is a statistical question because one anticipates variability in students' ages.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.SP.A.1 Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Understand that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and support valid inferences.
