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Introductory techniques
Encourage pupils to ask questions about a place by creating some question wheels using a template similar to the one below. Use the different question starters to generate some questions about the school grounds. Which of the questions could be investigated using a questionnaire?
Questioning techniques
One way that pupils can collect people’s opinions and thoughts about a place is through a simple questionnaire. As this might be the first time that pupils have used this technique, it is worth designing it as a class or in small groups. A questionnaire which investigates what other pupils think of the school grounds might include a range of questions such as:
| What age category do you fit into? | Under 6 | 7-8 | 9-10 | 11 | Over 11 | |||
| 1 | What score would you give the school grounds for being a good place to spend time out of 5? | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 2 | Describe the school grounds with three adjectives. | |||||||
| 3 | What do you like about the school grounds? Why? | |||||||
| 4 | What do you dislike about the school grounds? Why? | |||||||
| 5 | What do you think could be improved? | |||||||
| 6 | What area(s) of the grounds do you feel safest in and why? | |||||||
| 7 | What area(s) of the grounds do you feel least safe in and why? | |||||||
Questions
- Why are these good questions to ask to find out about our school grounds?
- Do you think any of the questions might be hard for people to answer?
- How might we record the results that we get?
- Who should we ask?
- How many people should we ask?
- Is it important to know who has said what?
- Are there any other things that we might need to think about when we are carrying out our questionnaire?
Pupils may want to carry out a short pilot of their questionnaire / recording sheet to check that they are getting useful data. They can then refine their questions / recording sheet in light of this.
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