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    The document outlines a school project where students research whether young people are learning or earning through part-time jobs. They will survey peers about work habits, analyze results, and present findings to parents to argue they can balance work and study. The project involves summarizing an ABS article, designing a survey, analyzing responses, and creating a Prezi presentation with results.

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    Project Learning or Earning

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    The document outlines a school project where students research whether young people are learning or earning through part-time jobs. They will survey peers about work habits, analyze results, and present findings to parents to argue they can balance work and study. The project involves summarizing an ABS article, designing a survey, analyzing responses, and creating a Prezi presentation with results.

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    The document outlines a school project where students research whether young people are learning or earning through part-time jobs. They will survey peers about work habits, analyze results, and present findings to parents to argue they can balance work and study. The project involves summarizing an ABS article, designing a survey, analyzing responses, and creating a Prezi presentation with results.

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    Project Learning or Earning

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    The document outlines a school project where students research whether young people are learning or earning through part-time jobs. They will survey peers about work habits, analyze results, and present findings to parents to argue they can balance work and study. The project involves summarizing an ABS article, designing a survey, analyzing responses, and creating a Prezi presentation with results.

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    Project: Learning or earning?

    Scenario
    Year 9 Students at Progressive High School have
    seen the paper Are young people learning or
    earning? produced by the Australian Bureau of
    Statistics. They start the week discussing their
    thoughts and then decide to do their own research.
    Simon decides that he will use this research to
    demonstrate to his parents that life is very different
    to when they were his age and that he is capable of
    undertaking a part-time job and keeping up with
    his studies.

    Task
    For this project, you will need to read the ABS
    article, summarise it, and then design a survey to
    research the topic. Your findings will reflect the work–study balance of the students in your school and
    demographic. After completing your survey, you will produce a presentation for your parents outlining the ABS
    article and detailing your research and the conclusions you have drawn.

    Process
    Open the ProjectsPLUS application for this chapter in the Resources tab.
    Watch the introductory video lesson, and read the articles provided. Answer the questions provided in the Are
    Young People Learning or Earning file in the Media Centre. Summarise the thoughts of the article in 200 words
    or less.
    • Use the Wordle weblink in the Resources
    tab and select the create tab. Copy the
    summary of your article into the text box.
    Keep selecting the randomise button until
    you are happy with the result. Print your
    final choice. Take a screenprint of your final
    choice. Take it into Paint for use as a slide in
    your presentation. Save your Paint file.
    • Use Surveymonkey to survey 100 students
    at your school to determine who has part-time
    jobs and how long they work at these
    each week. You are able to ask only 10 questions per survey. Record your 10 questions in Word. When
    planning your survey think carefully about the types of questions you want to ask. For example, do you
    want to know why they have a part-time job?
    Your 100 students need to represent the school as a population. How will you make your sample representative
    of this? Will it be a random sample or a stratified sample? Explain. What about the gender balance? Justify
    your decision. How will you notify the chosen students that they need to do the survey? What instructions
    will you give to the students completing your survey? How long will they have to complete it? What will you
    do to ensure they have all completed it? Complete the survey table provided in the Media Centre. Type your

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    instructions to each person completing the survey. Copy this into the Survey instructions template in the Media
    Centre.
    • Analysis. Record the results from your survey in a frequency distribution table. Use the Results table
    provided in the Media Centre. Write a paragraph summarising your findings. Include mean, median, mode
    and range for each year group. What percentages of the students have part-time jobs? Is there a trend as the
    students get older (are more or less students working)? Include a statement as to why you still want to get
    a part-time job. Represent your findings in a frequency histogram and frequency polygon. Use the Excel
    template for your results and include your graphs on that sheet. If you were to do this research again, is
    there anything that you would change? Why? Are there any better resources for your research? What is the
    mean, median and mode and range of your results?
    • Open the Suburb statistics labour force by age weblink.
    Type in your postcode. Follow the prompts to download
    the labour force statistics by age, and by sex for your
    postcode, and save. If you live in an urban area repeat for
    a rural region, if you live in a rural region, repeat for an
    urban area. Save the Excel files columns for the rural and
    urban postcodes. Use Excel to create a column graph with
    a series of columns. See Sample spreadsheet file. Include
    the graph in your Prezi file with an explanation of what
    you did.
    • Download the Prezi sample and the Prezi planning
    template to help you prepare your presentation.
    Your Media Centre also includes images
    that can help to liven up your presentation. As you arrange your images on your Prezi page make them
    form a large circle so that they flow smoothly when they are linked and presented.
    • Use the Prezi template to develop your presentation. Remember that you are trying to convince your
    parents that you should be able to undertake a part-time job. Make sure you include all the results of your
    research, and that your presentation will grab their attention. To include tables in Prezi you need to take
    them into paint and save the file as a jpeg in order to upload them. Use Word to type up your dialogue to
    your parents when you present your case (200–500 words).

    Your ProjectsPLUS application is available in this topic’s Student Resources tab.

    SEARCHLIGHT ID: PRO-0086

    SUGGESTED SOFTWARE
    • ProjectsPLUS
    • Microsoft Word
    • PowerPoint, Prezi, Keynote or other presentation software
    • Microsoft Excel
    • Surveymonkey
    • Wordle

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