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ACTION in the PYP
Inquiry questions - different levels explained
Resources, strategies and skills to help you at each stage of the Inquiry cycle.
Responsible and respectful user of online resources
Communication and Creation Tools
Creating a survey using Google forms (data collection and analysis)
ACTION in the PYP
Videos of inspiring young people who are are motivated to make a change!
Melati and Isabel Wijsen are on a mission to stop plastic bags from suffocating their beautiful island home of Bali. Their efforts -- including petitions, beach cleanups, even a hunger strike -- paid off when they convinced their governor to commit to a plastic bag-free Bali by 2018. "Don't ever let anyone tell you that you're too young or you won't understand," Isabel says to other aspiring activists. "We're not telling you it's going to be easy. We're telling you it's going to be worth it."
Solar energy/inventor:
In the Maasai community where Richard Turere lives with his family, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor shares the solar-powered solution he designed to safely scare the lions away.
(Main part of talk begins at about 4 minutes, 5 minutes the 12 year scientist tells her research story).
What do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (children included) should participate in science and, through the process of discovery, change perceptions. Also presenting is 12-year-old Amy O'Toole, who, along with 25 of her classmates, published the first peer-reviewed article by schoolchildren, about the Blackawton bees project. It starts: "Once upon a time ... "
Inquiry questions Level 1,2 and 3
Responsible and respectful user of online resources.
1. Digital citizenship: Private Polite positive/ Privé, Poli, Positif
You are responsible for: - creating a Positive Digital Footprint:update your digital citizenship presentation
- using appropriate language in emails to adults (see the example email you created in class)
- managing your on screen-time (i.e. balance screen-time)
Vous devriez: - créer une empreinte numérique positive et mettre à jour votre portfolio numérique
- utiliser un langage approprié dans les courriels
- gérer votre temps (un bon équilibre de l'écran)
Resources, strategies and skills during Exhibition to help you at each stage of the Inquiry cycle.
Stage 1 : Tuning in
Stage 2 and 3: Finding out, Sorting
Stage 4 and 5: Going further, Making Conclusions
Communication and Creation Tools:
Visual communication tools, maths tools etc.
Quiz cards/bookmarks
Design coding and design tools.
Creating a survey using Google forms (data collection and analysis)
A survey is used to collect information on a research topic.
A survey can provide data (number form) that can be presented in graphs and analysed.
In PYPX you may create a short survey to share with people in class or as agreed with your teacher.
You need good survey questions. Try starting survey questions with What, How, Who, Why, Would, When, Do
Choose the right type of survey question so that you will get good data to analyse
When you get your results take time to look at them in details. What do the results show? Did you notice something new? unexpected? trends?
Google form icon - click to create your survey.
Survey rules - set the following restrictions (in Settings):
1. Leave the collect email addresses (unchecked).(respondents do not like an email been stored in general),
2. Restrict to users in ISOG and trusted domains (check)
3. Limit to 1 response (check)
4. Leave Edit after submit and summary charts (unchecked).
Question types:
1. Multiple choice question type for only one answer (e.g. Yes/No questions)
2. Checkbox question type for more than one answer (knowledge/information questions present easily in graphs).
3. Short answer/paragraph question type for opinion questions (more detailed answers).
This is what the survey when published will look like.
This is what the survey results can look like.