{"id":1415,"date":"2023-11-13T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T06:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2023-11-13T08:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T06:46:33","slug":"animal-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2023\/11\/13\/animal-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each student selects an animal and searches for information about it to compile an animal card:<\/p>\n<table width=\"385\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"385\"><strong>Which animal?<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Height:<\/td>\n<td width=\"242\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Mass:<\/td>\n<td width=\"242\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Tail length:<\/td>\n<td width=\"242\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Life span:<\/td>\n<td width=\"242\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Speed:<\/td>\n<td width=\"242\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Color:<\/td>\n<td width=\"242\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Conservation status:<\/td>\n<td width=\"242\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Examine together the different characteristics of the animals by standing in a line or in a queue in order of size according to a certain characteristic.<\/p>\n<h2>Survey questions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Height:<\/strong> Which of the animals is the tallest? Or the lowest?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lifespan:<\/strong> Which of the animals can live the longest? What is the middle value among the life expectancies (so-called median)?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speed:<\/strong> Which of the animals is the fastest? Or the slowest? What is the most common speed among animals (so-called typical value)?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status:<\/strong> What is the most common conservation status?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Extra<\/h2>\n<p>Carry out additional research based on <em>frequencies<\/em>:<br \/>\ncategorise the animals according to their lifespan into categories 1-5 years, 6-10 years, 11-15 years, etc.<br \/>\nExamine the frequencies in the different categories.<\/p>\n<h2>Suggestion<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Produce pieces of paper in different colors on which you write the central concepts, such as <em>median, type value, minimum value <\/em>and <em>maximum value. <\/em>Hand out the notes next to the various survey questions to the right people to clarify the correct answer.<\/li>\n<li>You can also take pictures of the different trails you create, so that the examples can be visually examined afterwards as well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Idea from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lumatikka.luma.fi\/sv\/\"><em>Lumatikka&#8217;s<\/em><\/a><em> material.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each student selects an animal and searches for information about it to compile an animal card: Which animal? Height: &nbsp; Mass: &nbsp; Tail length: &nbsp; Life span: &nbsp; Speed: &nbsp; Color: &nbsp; Conservation status: &nbsp; Examine together the different characteristics of the animals by standing in a line or in a queue in order of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2023\/11\/13\/animal-statistics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dAnimal Statistics\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}