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	<title>CensusAtSchool</title>
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	<description>New Zealand Census at School</description>
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		<title>Sugar Guzzlers **NEW**</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was recently reported that an average New Zealand child guzzles almost 6Kg of sugar a year in sweetened drinks. Is this true? We can use statistics to answer all sorts of questions and to investigate lots of ideas.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/classroom-activities/sugar-guzzlers/</link>
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		<title>How high can you jump?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This resource focuses on the planning part of the enquiry cycle. The importance of this phase in relation to collecting good, reliable data from surveys and censuses cannot be overemphasized. Ways in which survey or census questions are asked have an impact on the resulting data and therefore on the subsequent analysis and conclusions that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/classroom-activities/how-high-can-you-jump-new/</link>
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		<title>Visit Statistics NZ Schools Corner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Statistics NZ have a number of curriculum based activities and information that can be used in the classroom on their Schools Corner. Please visit: http://www.statistics.govt.nz/methods_and_services/schools_corner.aspx Statistics NZ provides advice and funding to the CensusAtSchool project.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/news/statsnz-schools-corner/</link>
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		<title>Analysis tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This activity will probably take at least two periods (100 minutes approx). Students will be working with investigative questions they have posed previously (see activity on posing questions) or investigative questions they pose in this session for the given data set they are working with.  This particular activity is designed for using CensusAtSchool data.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/classroom-activities/analysis-tools/</link>
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		<title>Cleaning data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this activity students are given some background information about cleaning data and why it is important.  They then undertake to clean data they are given themselves. Helpful links: From CensusAtSchool UK http://www.censusatschool.org.uk/resources/data-handling/118-cleaning-up-your-data]]></description>
		<link>http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/classroom-activities/cleaning-data/</link>
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		<title>Using data cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This activity leads on from the posing investigative questions activity. Students will need to be familiar with the background information to the data set.  This may involve looking at the variables in the dataset, looking at how the data was collected and measured, looking at the survey question that was asked to get the data. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/classroom-activities/using-data-cards/</link>
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		<title>Posing summary investigative questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prior to partaking in this activity students should have been involved in the CensusAtSchool survey. Information about the CensusAtSchool survey can be found at: http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/ Information relating to determining appropriate variables and data collection methods, and gathering data can be found in the making measures document which is located at: http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/2009/information-packs/ In this activity students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/classroom-activities/posing-questions/</link>
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		<title>Press release: Early CensusAtSchool results reveal a weighty issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Auckland, Friday March 6, 2009: About one in five students is carting a school bag weighing 5kg or more &#8212; the same as a bag of potatoes. The insight comes from the first 1000 students to complete the online CensusAtSchool 2009, which opened on Tuesday March 3 and runs all term. The figures would seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/news/results-reveal-a-weighty-issue/</link>
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		<title>50,000 Kiwi kids take part in CensusAtSchool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Auckland, Thursday February 26: What are Kiwi kids’ favourite subjects? How much do their laden schoolbags weigh? And which super-powers, such as invisibility and telepathy, would they choose if they could? An estimated 50,000 students aged between 10 and 18 (Year 5 to Year 13) are due to start answering these questions – and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/news/50000-kiwi-kids-take-part/</link>
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		<title>Masterpiece 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a scientist and an artist. He thought that the span of someone’s arms was equal to their height. Why do you think he was interested in working out body proportions? Do you think Leonardo’s theories still work today? Was Leonardo’s theory that a person’s height is equal to their arm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.censusatschool.org.nz/classroom-activities/masterpiece-3/</link>
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