Spearman's rank Correlation Coefficient - Holly Leaves

This is a whole lesson on Spearman’s rank Correlation Coefficient including a PowerPoint and accompanying worksheets and exam questions for students. The lesson looks at why it is used, how to calculate it and how to interpret the results to draw a conclusion. This lesson is ready to go, with little preparation required. It is intended that students will collect their own data using holly leaves as these are reasonably abundant – if these are not available the students could still complete it with exemplar data. The resource comes with a 32-slide presentation, a matching student worksheet and examination questions (with answers on the teacher PowerPoint) and an excel file to support.
It includes:

• lesson objectives
• Explanation of how to select and use an appropriate statistical test
• Excellent Teaching slides (with very clear steps on how to calculate and interpret the data)
• Several examples
• Key examination questions
• Excel workbook to support the teacher
• Student Handout (which follows the teacher PowerPoint)
• Worksheet - exam questions with answers
• Extension task