Lesson 6 Survey the Class, Survey the School

    • Let’s survey a large group.

Warm-up Notice and Wonder: Survey

What do you notice? What do you wonder?

bar graph titled 'Favorite Science Topic"

Activity 1 Create a Survey

Create a survey that you’ll use with a large group of students. It should include:

  • a question

  • up to 6 answer choices

Activity 2 Survey a Large Group

Your group will be surveying a lot of people. This means asking your survey question and giving the answer choices repeatedly.

To prepare for the work ahead, discuss these questions with your group:

  • How will you present the survey question and answer choices? Who will present them?

  • How will you record and organize the responses? Who will record them?

  • How will you make sure you don’t record a response from the same student multiple times?