Promoting health awareness

This lesson/project idea will develop a knowledge and understanding of statistics, applying this knowledge in a real life context. Young people will work in teams (as statisticians) with the task of collecting, organising, interpreting and presenting a set of data from a questionnaire involving health and lifestyle.

Broad Outcomes of learning

• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced e.g. calculating the mean, median, mode and range. Constructing bar graphs and stem & leaf diagrams
• Enterprising skills improved by developing confidence, self awareness, positive attitude; increasing motivation to learning; taking responsibility and making decisions; consideration of others through group work and discussion; raising achievement and fostering ambition
• Developed employability skills: Communication, planning, organisation, time management, researching, co-operating, contributing, analysing, reporting, presenting, marketing, distributing etc
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making decisions about what questions to include in the questionnaire. What useful information to include in the leaflet
• Learners have developed 4 capacities of CfE

Relevance to curriculum

• Supports CfE Mathematics
• Relevance of how curriculum topic on statistics is relevant to work and life (in particular, large
corporations) and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a real situation