Year 4 Statistics Investigation Lesson

Differentiated Assessment + Student Rubric + Student Reflection + Teacher Checklist

Assess with clarity and intention! This assessment allows students to demonstrate their understanding of categorical questions, data collection, data representation, and reflection. — aligned to Australian Curriculum v9.

Students work through differentiated tasks to organise data into frequency tables, pictographs, and column graphs (many-to-one correspondence). Built-in reflection prompts support metacognition and reasoning.

What’s Included

✔ Lesson presentation, including differentiated Assessment, including success criteria for the 3 levels.

✔ Printable A3 anchor chart on student-friendly reflection rubric

✔ 3-level differentiated assessment task cards: ‘Let’s Go!’, ‘Strive for Success!’, ‘Mathematician!’

✔ Scaffolded templates for frequency tables, pictographs, and column graphs

✔ Student reflection sheet: What did I do well? What can I improve? What is my learning goal?

✔ Teacher checklist for assessment and moderation

Curriculum Alignment

Aligned with the Year 4 Australian Curriculum v9 Achievement Standard:

‘Students create many-to-one data displays, assess suitability of displays, and discuss distribution and variation.’ ‘They use surveys to collect categorical data and communicate findings in context.’

Content Descriptors:

AC9M4ST01 — Acquire and represent categorical data with many-to-one displays; interpret findings;

AC9M4ST02 — Interpret and compare data displays;

AC9M4ST03 — Conduct investigations, collect data, communicate results

Cross-Curricular Connections:

HASS (AC9T1S4S03) — Identify and reflect on the role of data in decision-making

Digital Technologies (AC9TDI4K03) — Recognise data can be represented in different ways

PDF Format | Non-Editable

7 PDF Downloadable Files for the Statistics Investigation

This assessment is lesson 5 of a 5 lesson unit.