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Conduct a survey to determine the most popular pets in the class, record their favorite foods, and create graphs to show the results. Optional activity includes transferring the data to pie charts.
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Section 5. Investigating What Pets Eat For Use with the KS2 Science Curriculum Topic 3A Adapted by Oral Health Promotion, Devon 2014
Most Popular Pets • Survey children in class. • Count up how many have each type of pet. • Record the totals on a table. • Use graph on next slide to show results. • You can come out of the slideshow by pressing ‘Escape’. • You may have to change some of the labels. • Double clicking the mouse on the graph accesses the data sheet. • Simply replace our data with your own. • Save to drive ‘c’, then restart the slideshow.
Save The Data • Don’t forget ! • Save the programme to drive ‘c’ • This saves the class data for later use
What Do The Most Popular Pets Eat ? • Pupils suggest which two pets shall be investigated. • This is usually the two which were most numerous in the last survey. • However the ones they ‘like the best’ can be chosen.
Most Popular Pet 1 • Ask all the owners of this pet what their pet’s favourite food is. • None owners can describe what their friend’s Grandparent’s, or Uncle’s pet eats so not to be left out. • Total up answers in a table and then add the results to the graph on the next slide. • You may have to change the labels again.
Save The Data • Don’t forget ! • Save the programme to drive ‘c’ • This saves the class data for later use
Popular Pet 2 • Now ask all the owners of the second most popular pet what their pet’s favourite food is. • None owners can describe what their friend’s Grandparent’s, or Uncle’s pet eats so not to be left out. • Total up answers in a table and then add the results to the graph on the next slide. • You may have to change the labels again.
Save The Data • Don’t forget ! • Save the programme to drive ‘c’ • This saves the class data for later use
Optional Activity • Ask the class to transfer the data to pie charts. • Draw these by hand using compass and pencil. • The school may already have available a suitable programme to draw the results of the survey.
Pie Charts Results for Dog’s favourite food in a Year 3 Test Class Tinned Food Chicken Kidneys
With thanks to • Graeme Jones, Liverpool Dental Health Promotion