Grade 11 PAT Gap year

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Grade 11PATGap year
Versions date 4 November 2009

• Word Report
• and
• PPT Summary

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Folder

• Folder saved as SurnameFirstname
• Phase 1
• Phase 2
• Phase 3

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Phase 1
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Start

• Word
• Insert
• Header Your name
• Footer - Disclaimer
• Footer - Page numbers
• Save in Phase 1 in folder
• Heading Gap year
• Write a sentence on what you must DO. Begin with
  I am going to investigate how to spend a year
  doing and then write a report on my findings to
  give to my uncle to show how I came to my final
  choice. I will also display a summary in a
  PowerPoint presentation.
• Make a list of sub headings and then questions to
  ask so that you can DO it. (20)

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Sub headings

• Decide on sub headings needed to investigate
• What do need to know to solve the problem?

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Sub topics and now Questions

• Where, Length of time, Cost - Easy to make Qs
• Value/Benefit
• Social
• Skill
• CV
• Short term
• Long term

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Questions

• Sort Qs under headings, e.g. Where, Length of
  time, Cost, Value/Benefit,
• Label Qs according to Levels
• Answers
• Say where or how you will find information to
  answer each Q type of source, e.g. Internet,
  person, magazine
• Say why the answer to each Q will help

Rubric
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Sub headings, now make questions

• Create sub headings
• Add questions under sub headings
• Do a quality check have you asked enough Qs to
  answer the problem?

Will all the questions solve the problem?
Solve?
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Type of questions
Level Type
1 Factual - what, when, where, who
2 Explore, query why, how
3 Adjust, alter, predict - what if
4 Judgement would it be better if, what would be the best way
Rubric
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Questions

• Sort Qs under headings, e.g. Where, Length of
  time, Cost, Value/Benefit,
• Label Qs according to Levels
• Answers
• Say where or how you will find information to
  answer each Q type of source, e.g. Internet,
  person, magazine
• Say why the answer to each Q will help

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Make table landscape Move (not copy) details
Q No Heading Level No Question Source Why ask Q
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Rubric
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Format table

1. Sort the work under Headings
2. Check Q numbering
3. Make columns just wide enough
4. Make rows not too deep
5. Column headings Bold and shaded, repeated
6. Keep all text the same font size, except for
   headings

Rubric
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Get ready to hand in

• Detailed description of the task or the problem
  in your own words
• Main question
• Questions in a table
• Header
• Footer
• Complete rubric for Phase 1

Rubric
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Phase 2
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Overview

1. Look at ways of spending USEFUL gap year
2. Fill ONE year
3. Money no object
4. Motivate Why? How? Where? Why?

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Decided?

• Collect information
• Save electronic information, e.g. web pages,
  videos http//keepvid.com
• in Phase 2
• of Folder
• Save magazine / brochure / survey, etc.
• in paper envelope / plastic sleeve
• Keep a Word document with list of URLs collected
  and date when found

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Collect information

• Where you will spend the year
• Length of time doing specific activities at
  certain centres
• Cost of the activities
• Value/Benefit (socially, physically, mentally)
  (why the sponsor should pay for you to go)
• Social
• Skill
• CV
• Short term
• Long term

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Survey OR Checklist

• About 5 Qs to help you decide on the value of an
  activity OR others experiences
• Know what you are talking about BEFORE you create
  survey
• Create Qs first, and only then format the page
• Use template survey OR create new document
• Test survey on 3 people change as needed
• Format neatly and logically
• Use tabs, columns and or tables
• On a FULL page or two FULL pages
• Heading
• Picture
• Please complete
• Thank you
• Indicate to whom it must be returned
• Hand out / collect data

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Word 2003 Adapt a survey template
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Word 2007 Adapt a survey template
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Example of a survey
Nice headings but this picture belongs with Gr
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Collect information

• Test survey on 3 people change as needed
• Hand out to 20 people / collect data from 20
  people

Collect
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Survey

• All information must go onto one Excel work sheet
• Keep details for each person
• Arrange it so the amounts can be added up

Analyse
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Collect information from Survey
Silly layout! Only need one column per question
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Collect information from survey
Silly layout! Only need one row per person
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Collect information from survey
Meaningless headings
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Collect information from survey
Nice headings but this picture belongs with Gr
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Best!
Nice headings
Well laid out
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Get totalsAnalyse the information
Use Countif function to total results AND other
functions to get required data
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Graphs

1. Create one graph per question in spreadsheet
2. Add a suitable picture as a background
3. Label horizontal and vertical axises
4. Copy each graph to a Word document (centre it)
5. Under each graph insert a caption (short heading
   for the graph, centre it)
6. Under each graph write/type about what is shown
   in each graph (non caption, in body text, align
   left). Use the words highest, more, most, lowest,
   less or least.

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Database

• Information must go onto one Access table
• Keep records/details for each item/person
• Arrange it so the data can be queried
• Arrange it so that calculations can be made from
  the database

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Reports and Queries

• Create reports with groupings and calculations to
  GET the information required
• Add a picture as a report header
• Create one query per each idea
• Copy each query to a spreadsheet, do calculations
  (countif, sumif, etc.), then create a graph
• Add a picture as a background to the graph
• Label horizontal and vertical axises
• Copy the graphs to the Word document
• Under each graph insert a caption
• Write/type about what is shown in each graph

Rubric
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Cross referencing / Linking

• Copy original Word document with questions
• Use ALL good questions from Phase 1
• Add hyperlinks to your data saved in Folder for
  questions

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How many questions

• Enough to show/prove to your uncle why you want
  to do for your gap year

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Trustworthiness 1/2

• Look at every source of information, e.g. web
  page, magazine article, person, etc.
• Write 1 sentence about each source (so if you
  looked at 2 web pages and did a survey, evaluate
  those 3) on
• Check elsewhere
• Focus
• Author / Authority
• Place
• Date / Currency
• Then write This source is trustworthy or not
  trustworthy because for every single source.

Believe?
Trust?
Look at next slide
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Trustworthiness 2/2
Check elsewhere Can you check what the source says anywhere else?
Focus Is the article objective or is it trying to persuade?
Author / Authority Is the author an authority in that field? Is the authors name listed elsewhere as an authority? Is the document free of grammar or spelling errors?
Place Is the source a reputable place, e.g. published book or encyclopaedia web site?
Date / Currency How recent is the information, but is the date important?
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Planning

• Decide how you are going to write your report.
  What is it meant to be about? Think! Look at
  your Phase 1 questions!
• Put down your headings / sections and subheadings
  / sub sections
• Under each heading
• write what you are going to say,
• write or show what graph you are going to use, if
  any,
• write or show what picture you are going to use,
  if any.
• Plan! Do not do the report

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Phase 2

• Hand in
• Phase 2 folder
• Paper envelope / plastic sleeve with 20
  completed/ticked surveys
• Any other evidence in printed format
• Printed document with graphs and writing about
  each graph
• Printed document on cross referencing
• Printed document on trustworthiness
• Access reports with images in the headers (for
  advanced learners)
• Planning document
• Completed rubric
• Information in Phase 2 folder
• All the information, i.e. web pages, etc.
• Spreadsheet
• Database
• Document with graphs and writing about each graph
• Document on cross referencing
• Document on trustworthiness
• Document on planning

Hand in in the order given
Clear file names
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Phase 3 - Final report

• Take planning document
• Do a Save As Final report
• Under the headings INSERT the
• information mentioned
• graphs mentioned
• pictures mentioned
• Do it as paragraphs / story (write it in such a
  way that if the headings are removed, it still
  makes sense)
• Due Thursday - No printing yet Do not worry
  about the looks yet

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Finishing off - Structure
I am going to write about Remove
Title page Name, class, game name
Headings Convert questions into Headings
Page numbers X of y
Table of contents On page on own, page numbers left of headings
References At end
Introduction Say what you are going to discuss, put this just before Planning or
Conclusion Say what you have discussed and final decision
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Finishing off - Looks
Title page Border around only this page
Images, graphs and tables Centred, in-line with text, write about each, must be part of the story - not separate, must help explain the text where it is placed
Captions Under images, graphs and tables, centred, is a short heading, no full stop, explanation in body text
Paragraph spacing 1.5
Fonts One font used
Headings Bold, larger than body text, no colons, no bullets
Body text, headings Aligned left
Columns Maybe something in columns
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Phase 3 - Report

• Hand in
• Phase 3 folder
• Printed report
• Completed rubric
• In Phase 3 folder
• Spreadsheet
• Database
• PPT
• Report

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Bibliography

• Free Internet Morabaraba Server. (n.d.)
  Retrieved 27 July 2009, from http//www.morabarab
  a.org/.
• Jukskei. (2009) Jukskei. Retrieved 27 July 2009,
  from http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukskei.
• Marabaraba. (n.d.). Retrieved 27 July 2009, from
  http//www.kr.co.za/Publishing/Marketing/Teambuild
  ing_Activities_Marabaraba.pdf.
• Mindsprts South Africa. (n.d.) Retrieved 27 July
  2009, from http//www.mindsportssa.freeservers.com
  /rules-morabaraba.htm.

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