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BOM
Personal Preferences/Data

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Data monitoring the weather of each month.  Information then graphed into days and types of weather

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Data monitoring the weather of each month.  Information then graphed into days and types of weather

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Pizza preferences and hunger analysis to work out how many pizza's of x times we'd need for our pizza party. 

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Pizza preferences and hunger analysis to work out how many pizza's of x times we'd need for our pizza party. 

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Students record /graph the variety of farm animals on their farms.

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Students record /graph the variety of farm animals on their farms.

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BOM
Google Earth
ABS - new website has simplified info graphics which could be used depending on the data
data.gov.au

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Students collect data of how their friends in class gets to school. They then graph their information and share.

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What do you play at lunch time?

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Linked to resources from Soundwaves site -see attached
Use Explain everything app. to create tables, graphs etc.

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Collecting data re rubbish collected in their eating area each day to decide on options for introducing a recycling program.

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BOM
Google earth
Track the weather for a month and graph information in bar graph and as a digital graph. (compare)

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Graphing to keep track of the weather and temperatures over the course of a month or term.

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Students are going to collect their own data about their own lunch box items.
Collect the names of vegetables
Collect the names of meat
Collect the names of snacks
Collect the names of fruits
Choose the items and put in the lunch box for total five items.
According to the lunch items, students are going to make charts to represent the trend.

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how students get to school and distance travelled to get to school

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how students get to school and distance travelled to get to school

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Sources for mainly Historical and pictorial data

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Sources for mainly Historical and pictorial data

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http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/  Digitised newspapers and magazines

Historical cadastral map series—Queensland( https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/historical-cadastral-map-seriesqueensland )

Historical topographic map series—Queensland( https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/historical-topographic-map-series-queensland )

Google earth

Learning Place – EdStudios

National Map (Australia) http://www.nationalmap.gov.au/

Freesound Project https://freesound.org/  sound effects database available for free download.

SLQ Photographic Database https://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/

ABC Splash         http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/home (several searchable sites for students of all ages)

National Archives  - several sites for information gathering www.naa.gov.au
* VROOM (Virtual Reading Room) http://www.vrroom.naa.gov.au/
*Discovering ANZACS https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/learn
Family History – Begin your journey – National Archives of Australia ...
www.naa.gov.au/collection/family-history/
Ancestry - Family history website
Ancestry.com.au

H.Francis

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Create a Graph (NCES KidZone) hosted by The National Center for Educational Statistics (US) 

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Create a Graph (NCES KidZone) hosted by The National Center for Educational Statistics (US) 

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This graphing tool is a useful one to use with younger students. After gathering their data they can choose which type of graph to best display their findings and then input the information.
Small or larger data sets can be used , up to 5 different graphic representations are available and there are also options for saving, printing, and downloading or emailing graphs.
https://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/

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Collect data about most prevalent rubbish areas in school. Collate data and create graph. Then think about how to reduce these areas of rubbish.

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World Map to discover where families come from within the classroom. Each child is pinned to the board. Demonstrates understanding of where most of the students come from within the class.

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Collect data on how much time the children spend looking at a screen.  Data could be gathered to see if this is healthy, who is spending time doing what.

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Collect data on how much time the children spend looking at a screen.  Data could be gathered to see if this is healthy, who is spending time doing what.

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Collect data on method of transport to school and use excel to create graphs Compare different graphs to decide which one tells the story of the data best

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Collect data " What is the most popular Car colour?" at the school gate. Compile bar graph & analyse trends.

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Using Google Earth to look at our community structures, current and past.

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Using Google Earth to find neighbours and to look at the different areas of Brisbane

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We took a virtual trip to Disney. We used an app to calculate ride waiting times, used the interactive map to plan our route, used the menus to work out what we would eat for the day and how much it would cost

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BOM to watch weather and climate changes.  Google Earth pictures to watch changes in climate (e.g. glacier changes).

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to track weather and climate

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Google Earth - finding and comparing familiar areas

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Use weather websites to track weather each day and record temp in morning and then again in the afternoon. Each day keep a record of how temp has changed during the day and whether it actually hit forecast temp.

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Use Google Earth to look at where our school is in our neighbourhood and the other geographical features that surround our school.

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Use local supermarket online catalogue to plan 2 course menu within a given budget, using mainly fresh ingredients

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Use Coles or Woolworths online to view catalogues and plan a healthy dinner menu with prices and costings.

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spreadsheet to capture data on school recycling and waste 

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spreadsheet to capture data on school recycling and waste 

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Preparing a budget sheet to create a payment plan for purchasing goods for school camp. Understanding quantities and budgeting

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Online catalogues to add up money and to determine change given with specified amounts.
We also collected data on favourite tuckshop food.

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Use Google Earth and aerial photographs of the school to observe and discuss changes that occurred since the 1990's. Consider what might happen in future years.

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Students had to use newspaper and only 30 cms of tape to create a square based pyramid someone could sit in.

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Your local area.  Street names of where your friends and you live.

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The app Science Fair that is related to Sid the Science Kid has a section in it where you use a chart to organise objects according to common elements.

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Bom weather to track weather and look at how weather changes and weather trends.

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Bom weather to track weather and look at how weather changes and weather trends.

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BOM

Used to track cyclone progress towards our town and compare with other states in Australia and across the world.

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Using google maps to locate locations on the globe and develop some perspective on distance travelled, e.g. comparing flying to Bali vs a drive from Dysart to Brisbane.

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Online catelogues - comparing prices and finging the best buys

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Google Earth for showing how large our Earth is to finding the school and their house.

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Google Maps for birds eye view in Geography. Problem- the tuckshop monitors are taking too long. Which is the quickest way to get from our classroom to the tuckshop? What if it is raining?

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Google Earth to research local area and identify features to determine Natural, Managed and Constructed places.
Use maps to explain direction using directional and positional language.

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Have a classroom with very limited technology and have given up trying to use due to unreliability. Frustrating! Feel the students are being disadvantaged.

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Amazing! Search for any topic.  We are studying Sea Turtles next term... so much fabulous data.

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BOM's online weather site to view weather patterns and forecasts for our local area compared with other geographical areas

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We used Google maps to view the school and find student adresses to calculate the distance they travel to school and who lived the cloest. We also explored other facilities in the local area.

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Students conducted survey on Under 8s day. Created graph to determine the most popular activities

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Students collect data of how many females and males live in the town, and create relevant data displays to show data collected.

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Students use Google Maps to explore different ways to get to a certain location and discuss which would be the best route based on different factors-time, safety, familiarity, transport, etc.

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Using Google Earth for geography to view seasonal changes (using satellite mode) in different
places around the world.

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Students track their individual progress of learning their 1000 sight words over the course of the year. Reflect on when they achieved significant increases and discussed why that may have occurred.

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Woolworths and Coles online catalogues - for seasonal fruits and vegies for cooking/tuckshop menu

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viewing our school on google earth and redesigning the school layout

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viewing our school on google earth and redesigning the school layout

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Students used Google-Earth to view the school community, and needed to decide what extra resources the school needed : toilets, prep playground etc.

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Google Earth - we used this to explore our school and community during our Geography units this year

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Viewed map of our school and plotted our Cross Country Course, looked at types of landscapes in our region.

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We have used Google earth to show significant places in geography and give the students a sense of connectedness with the world, global learning

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google earth in Geography to help with mapping

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Google Earth to explore local areas and the broader world.

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Google earth to explore local and other areas.

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Google Earth to view school and local beach

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Google Earth to view school and local beach

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We loved using Google Maps to explore the streets and areas around our school, we even Zoomed across the world to find other Lake Communities around the world.
Predominantly we collect data from out peers and other students in the school.
Online encyclopaedia type sites can be useful too.
We loved ABC's My Place website for collecting new information about past items, spaces and lifestyles.

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Year 4
BOM data to interpret active school travel trends

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Google maps of the street names in our local area.

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http://earth.nullschool.net
See current wind, weather and pollution conditions.

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Google Earth to look at views of our school.

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Google Earth, flood maps of the local area, 

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Google Earth, flood maps of the local area, 

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Year 2

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Google earth to examine different land forms in geography.

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Year 2 Geography uses Google Earth to look at aerial views, local, regional and national scales of places.

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Google Earth and Weatherzone.

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Google Earth - Geography birds eye views and side views of local areas, regional areas, national areas and global areas

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Google Earth to explore local places and the surrounding area. Data collected from office in regards to attendance.

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Most of our data sources aren't open data sources - lots of peer and known adult surveys and the data from these (along with traditional graphs, we've created a number of Wordles this year).
Considering that open data is data that anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it (thanks, Wikipedia), perhaps the only open data source we have used as a class this year is Google Maps (and maybe some Google searches, although we didn't focus on the fact that it is a source of data, per se).

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Utilising Google Earth Street View to explore local places and features local of places in a Geography lesson.

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Google images for topic relevant images providing immediate and varied perspectives

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Google images for topic relevant images providing immediate and varied perspectives

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Recording data for absentees. Use this information to collate and look for trends for most popular days taken off. An
d then analyse why that might be.

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Data collected by previous Year 1's re: most popular tuckshop choices.  Relate this to implications for being a healthy person.  Students in Year 2 possibly look at trends if the same kind of choices continue for another year. Ext Activity: How healthy will they be by the time they reach Year 6 if trends continue.

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Students design a sandwich and survey their peers as to whether they like the toppings.  They use tally marks to record the response and later analyse their data.

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Collecting homework data and trends over the course of the year.

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Students collect data from our weather chart and create a picture graph online to identify trends and predict future weather.

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Year 1  - Students use local weather forecasting apps on ipads and graph the weather.

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Collect data from the roll & office in regard to class attendance. Students analyse the data to identify trends (e.g. what days students are typically absent).

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weather forecasting

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Students arriving late data is collected. Awards are given out for 100% attendance. A walking bus is provided. Students choose to get the walking bus so 100% is achieved. Little people see what is happening in the upper school to achieve this.

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Collect data from home reading diaries.

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Collect Active Travel Data on students ways of getting to school.  Problem solve options for increasing activity.

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Weather forecasting- news media- T.V.,radio, newspapers

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Google Earth to study natural features of their local area.

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P/2  Students use
Monkey Survey  for various surveys to
conduct around the school to help them solve a problem such as overcrowding of
a games room at lunch time. Students look for alternatives.  

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P/2  Students use
Monkey Survey  for various surveys to
conduct around the school to help them solve a problem such as overcrowding of
a games room at lunch time. Students look for alternatives.  

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Use google maps (satellite) to discuss features of parks in your local area. Discuss improvements in design options and similarities to your school playground.

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Collect data on library borrowing over a term.  Analyse data and compare borrowing  habits with individual reading levels.  Look at trends in borrowing for boys and girls/fiction and non fiction. Analyse data and suggest solutions for improving participation in library borrowing.  Revisit in 6 months to track improvements

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Using bom website to track weather and discuss weather patterns.