{"id":12816,"date":"2023-01-26T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2023-01-26T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:14:35","slug":"rspb-big-school-birdwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=12816","title":{"rendered":"RSPB Big School Birdwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our boys and girls put on their ornithologist hats on Thursday to take part in this year’s Big School Bird Watch.\u00a0 This fits with our Eco Schools action plan for biodiversity.<\/p>\n

The children got stuck into some outdoor learning combined with mathematical data handling to monitor how many different birds visited our school grounds within an hour’s timeslot.\u00a0 The children used tally charts and block recording, dependent on age, to log the birds they saw.<\/p>\n

On our return to school we calculated the average of our results and inputted them onto the RSPB website.<\/p>\n

Our most common bird visitor was the carrion crow closely followed by the blackbird and robin.<\/p>\n

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We used the RSPB website to compare different ways to present our data.\u00a0 Our P1 – 4 prefered the pictogram whilst our older pupils liked the pie chart to show fractional shares. Here are our results displayed using different chart types.<\/p>\n

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If you would like to take part in the Big Garden Watch 2023 which takes place between the\u00a0 27- 29th of January, click on the link here<\/a> to register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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