Measuring: PEAS PART 1

Hello everyone!

📽️ In today's post, we will comment on the third video: Érase una vez... Mendel y los guisantes. This video lasts about 25 minutes. In this happens the same as the last one, we are not going to find out specific contexts talking about measurment issues, but we, as a teachers, have to think about a way to introduce the topic, and in the following lines I am going to give you some clues to do it. 

First of all, we must create a context where we explain our students that the video that we are going to see speaks about several important and transversal contents between subjects but at the end of it we will focus on one of them.

This time our friends talk about the genetic, and the Teacher will be in charge of explaining who Mendel was and what he did in relation with statistics.

In this class we will do games and activities to introduce the topic to the students. All the contents in the video are related with the history and natural science subject, so you can mix the classes so as to the students do not lose the motivation but to review and learn new contents. In addition, we will do 1 experiment, as in the previous classes.

After watching the video it is important to make an introduction in the topic, it is necessary to explain the contents that we will deal with. For that reason, we can use this web page where the statictis are explained, so we can explain in a brief introduction how we will do the exercises below.

📝 ACTIVITY 1: for the first activity that we are going to carry out, we must familiarize the students with the subject in question, that is why in the first place we can do a search in the network about who was Mendel and what relationship he has with the subject of statistics. Once we have contextualized, we can do a series of activities to know the different terms that the statistics encompass. It is important to do this type of knowledge activities so that then we can do without any difficulty the rest of the proposed activities. In this PDF you will find 23 activities to perform and here the different terms that we will use throughout the topic.

📝 ACTIVITY 2: for the second activity we will return to the video and select a fragment of about 10-20 minutes. Previously, we must select a character (such as Mendel or one of our friends), an object (such as peas), a secondary character, a place and an action. Then we will create a double entry table to record the following data; we will put the fragment of the video and ask the students to write down how many times the previously agreed elements appear. Once we have finished we will pass and study them, ending with a graph where the results are collected.

To make these graphics, I suggest you use the following web pages:
- Piktochart: allows you to create infographics from data and graphics that you can easily create.
- Google spreadsheet: allows you to make different graphs with the data obtained.

I hope you enjoyed this entry!

Marta