Career profile: Sacha Dench, migratory animal research scientist
This career profile on Sacha Dench, a migratory animal research scientist, demonstrates the intersection of science and mathematics knowledge and skills in a real-world context. The goal is to inspire students to consider a STEM career by highlighting the scientist's background, interests, current role, and the pathways taken to enter the profession. Sacha Dench is an Australian research scientist focusing on the plight of the osprey.
A series of lessons related to Sacha's work are available to help students develop their skills and knowledge in statistics.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5 Year 6
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Statistics
- Topic
- Data representation and interpretation
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Other terms
- conservation without borders
- File type
- File size
- 0.6 MB
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Osprey altitude data
In this lesson, students acquire data related to the altitudes reached by fledgling osprey practising flight. Students represent and interpret the data, discussing and reporting on the data distribution including the range and mode.
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Osprey migration data
In this lesson, students acquire data related to the migration of the osprey. Students represent and interpret the data, discussing and reporting on the data distribution. They compare two types of charts to decide which type is best to display the dataset.
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Osprey bird dimensions
In this lesson, students investigate measurement data related to the osprey. Students represent and interpret data related to wingspan and body length. They investigate patterns in data to describe any relationships.
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Osprey position and location
In this lesson, students acquire data related to the migration of the osprey. Students describe location and position on a Cartesian plane using paired coordinates. They explore the way latitude and longitude is used to pinpoint a location on Earth.
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Osprey ranking threats
In this lesson, students acquire data related to key threats to the survival of osprey. Students work in small groups to rank a list of key threats and collate the data in a class spreadsheet. They sort the data to identify the overall class ranking of threats. Students create a pie chart of the threats commonly ranked as most important (ranked 1).
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Flight of the osprey infographic
In this lesson, students use data acquired during their learning about the osprey and information sourced online to design and create an infographic.
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