Mar 23 2010
quadrat sampling on a smartboard
A colleague came to ask for some smartboard help last week. She wanted to do an activity with a class that involved sampling with a quadrat.
It’s hardly the time of year to take 20 kids outside to our muddy football pitch to throw wooden frames around, so she was looking for a way of simulating the process on her interactive whiteboard.
She had been trying to create a table and move it around a Notebook page but the empty cells of the table were preventing her from seeing what lay in each section of her quadrat grid. I suggested that she could create the grid using a series of horizontal and vertical lines, grouping them together as a single item. She called in later that day to say it had worked and several pupils had used her virtual quadrat during the lesson.
My colleague shared the notebook file with me and I have attached it in a zip file, just click on the download link below to save a copy. I wonder if this could be used to introduce the idea of sampling in a virtual environment like Endless Ocean or African Safari?
