Embedded Files
Copy of AOS 3 Practical Investigation Logbook.docxYOUR BIG QUESTION - CAN CHOCOLATE HELP TO REDUCE STRESS?
YOUR BIG QUESTION - CAN CHOCOLATE HELP TO REDUCE STRESS?
ACTIVITY 1
ACTIVITY 1
Students get into groups and read the three investigations.
Summarise using the template provided.
Audit the three investigations using the checklist.
TASK TEMPLATE:
Student Work Exemplar TaskRM Check listEXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT INVESTIGATION:
Research Methods Experiment Template.docxResearch Methods Experiment Template.docxResearch Methods Experiment Template.docxACTIVITY 2
ACTIVITY 2
Complete Step 1 from your Logbook
For key term and theories, look at stress and the impact of stress.
For the last question, finding past research. You will need laptops to do your research. This can be done whenever you can have access to the laptops.
Follow the template provided to help with summarising your research.
Google Scholar Research Task.docxACTIVITY 3
ACTIVITY 3
Complete Step 3, Step 4, Step 5 from your Logbook.
Population - Senior students from Sunshine College (10 -12)
Sample - Your choice but you need to make sure you have equal number of male and female participants. For total number of participants, read Activity 4
You can refer to this example if you need help.
Psychology Research Assessment 2020.docxTo help you with extraneous and confounding variables.
Extraneous Variables.docxACTIVITY 4
ACTIVITY 4
Students get into groups of 4 or 5. Each group will survey 4 male and 4 female students. 2 ( 1 male and 1 female) will get the chocolate and the other 2 will not get the chocolate.
Make sure you give them the consent form to sign first
Complete the Perceived Stress Scale
Debrief after the experiment
CONSENT FORM_.docxPerceivedStressScale.pdfACTIVITY 5
ACTIVITY 5
After your experiment, complete Step 6 and Step 7 from your Logbook.
Collect and collate your data as a class. We will have one big data pool per class.
Analyse your data using the appropriate class
Summarise your data - Find your mean and median
If you need help, refer the the examples provided.
Chocolate vs Stress.xlsxDATA.docxIf students need help with analysing and summarising data, they can watch these how to videos.
How to use Google Sheet
Video from last year
szu-xnjd-vqe (2021-04-11 at 17:02 GMT-7)ACTIVITY 6
ACTIVITY 6
Finish the last part of your Logbook - Discussion & evaluation.
Page updated
Report abuse