Project example

Mapping the sociology of the classroom

Objectives

1. To understand family background of class / students
2. To understand community
3. To trace family tree and relationships
4. To understand what jobs are there, what people do

What prior skills are assumed

1. Collecting data
2. Entering data in spreadsheets
3. Typing in text document
4. Introduction to using an audio recorder/ camera (can also be a mobile)

Resources needed -including hardware, software

1. Camera, Recorder, Mobile phone (number of devices based on number of students)
2. Computers for data entry
3. Paper, pencil, etc for data collection
4. Spreadsheet, Text editing software

Project output

Activities

1. Interviewing
2. Data collection
3. Data entry and analysis
4. Presentation
   1. Pictures and graphs
   2. Text, pictures and graphs
   3. Family trees
   4. Sociological mapping of caste, occupation
5. Secondary data
   1. For migration
   2. Occupation

Digital portfolio

Level 1

1. Tabulated and analyzed data
2. Text summary of interviews and analysis

Level 2

1. Video clips of interviews
2. Infographic with family trees
3. Concept maps exploring occupations

Implementation notes

Notes for the teacher

The school is a mini-community. High school is not always from same community and children come from many villages. We need to understand who are all in the class so we can learn and work together. Collecting this data will also help us in that. Many times, we do not always know what parents do; what are their jobs, what changes are happening in their village, etc. This will help in understanding the family profile. Tracing family tree is very fun activity. Children can understand more about what ancestor means, how lives have changed, what changes are happening now, etc.

When during the school year will it be done

1. Level 1- After completion of data processing module
2. Level 2 - After completion of graphics module
3. Level 3 - End of year

Duration and modality of the project

1. Data collection - through homework based questionnaire
2. Data entry - 1 week
3. Data analysis - 1 week

Subject anchor

The learnings can be to understand the sociology of the classroom. This can be anchored in the Social Science subject.

1. Which subject will anchor?