Grade 5 continues to explore the unit of inquiry, “Market Forces”, by developing their own business plans for a bakery.
Last week, students took advantage of the opportunities in our own community by going on a field trip to the Heidelberg Main Train Station. During this unit, Grade 5 has been exploring different ways to conduct research, such as interviews, observations and surveys.
A trip to the train station gave students the perfect opportunity to make observations of their “would-be” competition. Students took notes on products, layout and name design, as well as considered ideas they could use for their own businesses. While there, they even made plans for renting out an empty unit for setting up their own bakeries.
After reflecting on their findings, students wanted to know more about the tasty products found in the three bakeries in the train station. Building on their curiosity, Grade 5 explored how surveys can be used in meaningful ways by writing and participating in their very own food quality survey.
They started by writing a survey that could be used to compare mozzarella and tomato sandwiches from all three bakeries.
However, as they started tasting samples and completing their first survey, they quickly realized that the questions needed to be modified, in order to provide more meaningful data. Revised surveys were written for pretzel, croissant and chocolate muffin tastings.
Conducting research and collecting data never tasted so good!
FW
