Super Swimmers

Our H.O.T question

Describe why the drowning rate for people in NZ is so high, survey the school to gather information about students swimming abilities to identify the patterns, create a swimming programme which will help students become more confident and capable while swimming.

 

This article is about how the super swimmers created their survey questions and gathered their data. The students in my group are Hannah-May Slater, Michelle Nielsen, Sam Lowery, Revival Fakaua, Cameron Raman, Ebony Rangi, Jeet Singh, Veronica Bojanich, Mustafa Rahimani, Tyson Waru, Jayden Nielsen, James Saufoi and myself Taylor Woodhead.

We are discussing our questions. I tell the group to think of at least 5 questions that they would like to ask another class. This is a very long process. My group would take about a whole hour to write 5 questions each. After a while we all went onto the ground and we all said and wrote our best question. We had 11 questions when everyone had their questions down.

 Now that we have our survey questions we started on our demographic information. What does demographic mean, well I’ll tell you. An example of demographic is age, ethnicity, gender, year and even favourite sport. The super swimmers demographic information was How old are you?, What is your gender?, What is your ethnicity/culture? And What is your favourite sport?.

 We have our demographic questions down so then we had to type it all up on the computer. Ebony Rangi said she would type it up so I helped her. It was pretty fun typing and playing around with the different colours and fonts. After a couple of hours we had got the survey all typed up and ready to be printed. After we checked it for mistakes we clicked print and I went to collect it from the library. When I got back I gave it to Mr Naude to get it photocopied for the next day.

 They had finally been photocopied so at about 11:30am the next day Hannah – May Slater and myself decided we were going to survey room 15. We waited until the whole class had finished the survey. The survey took about 10-15 minutes. Room 15 was very good while doing the survey.

 We have completed the survey and had to gather and record all the data. To do that we split the survey so everyone could have at least 2 surveys each and they recorded the answers to their survey question. It got very confusing because everyone just kept passing the sheets on and some of us weren’t done so it kind of frustrated me but, we finally got it done. HOORAY!!!!!!!!!

The data is collected. “What do we do now?” asks some kids. We had to draw graphs and find the trends, using the data. Finding the trends was a bit difficult but I eventually got it. Everyone had to find at least 3 trends each and do at least 3 graphs. As well as it being confusing it was fun and interesting.

I hope you now know what we did to get our survey and get the statistics. Let’s recap… I spoke about how we got our questions, getting them on the computer and printing our survey, doing our survey with room 15, collecting the data and making graphs. I would be happy to start this whole process over again.

Taylor Woodhead