SAMPLING TECHNIQUES - Sampling with beads - FULL LESSON including homework/AFL

This bundle is a lesson on sampling techniques including:

1.Power point lesson
2.Teacher guidance notes
3.Student workbook
4.Match up AFL sampling techniques scenarios - done as part of powerpoint or on paper/activity
5.Sort your sample palette - alternative to buying paint palettes
6.How to… work out mean, median, mode and percentages
7.Sampling techniques/research methods homework - including bar chart interpretation and percentages
8.Revision tools document which has 1 page which is to be split to create revision cards and 1 page for a spidergram revision tool which i do at the end of every lesson for a few minutes (there are 2 tools so students have choice of which to make)

These resources used together create a lesson on the different types of sampling techniques - but also involves calculating percentages as well as drawing and interpreting data from bar charts. And encourages thought around advantages and disadvantages of each technique.

The homework sheet could be done in class as an end of lesson AFL to be handed in for marking.

Its a simple lesson but effective in delivering the concept of the 5 sampling techniques, how they are used, and gets students thinking about the concept of samples and how they represent society as a whole - useful particularly when it comes to social influence later on where the studies had male participants.