Test your problem solving skills'

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Test your problem solving skills.
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• TSUNAMI

Thailand December 2004
Objective
You will be testing your ability in a variety of
skills by looking at images of the Thai tsunami
and tsunami data.
By the end of the lesson
You will all have assessed your performance in
the tested skills and will have some appreciation
of what happened in Thailand in December 2004.
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What is behind the circle?
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• Look carefully at the next slide and decide what
  it is showing you.

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Before and after tsunami.
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How would you rate your problem solving skills?

I was able to figure out the bigger picture
quickly and I got the boat right, and I was able
to interpret the picture of before and after
tsunami correctly.
I was able to figure out the bigger picture and
I feel as though I made sensible suggestions
about the other two problems even if I didnt
necessarily get them both right.
I found solving the problems difficult and I
didnt think of answers straight away. I did have
my own ideas though, even if they were not the
correct ones.
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Test your sequencing skills.

• How good are you at putting things in their
  correct order?
• Look at the pictures and decide which comes
  first, second, third and fourth.
• You will have 2 sequences to solve.

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How would you rate your sequencing skills?

• I found both
  sequencing activities easy and I was
• able to put
  the pictures in order quickly and
• correctly.
• I found both
  activities fairly easy, although I had
• to think
  harder about the second one. I got most of
• the pictures
  correct.
• I found
  sequencing very difficult and my brain had
• to work very
  hard. I found the first activity easier.
• I got a few
  correct.

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Test your Interpretation Skills.

• You need to do the following
• Create a timeline of killer tsunamis by
  organising them into date order.
• Prioritise the tsunamis in terms of how many
  people were killed and represent the information
  in a graph, bar chart or table.
• Calculate how many people have died in total as a
  result of all the killer tsunamis.
• Find out which part of the world has experienced
  the most tsunamis.
• You have 25 mins to do this task.

• You are about to see how well you can interpret
  and organise information from a source.

You have a copy of this map with information on
about tsunamis that have occurred in our world.
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• You need to do the following
• Create a timeline of killer tsunamis by
  organising them into date order.
• Prioritise the tsunamis in terms of how many
  people were killed and represent the information
  in a graph, bar chart or table.
• Calculate how many people have died in total as a
  result of all the killer tsunamis.
• Find out which part of the world has experienced
  the most tsunamis.

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How would you rate your interpretation skills?
I found organising the data quite easy and I was
able to work well on the task with little or no
help from others. I was able to calculate the
number of people killed by tsunamis in history
and identify which part of the world has had most
of them. I was a key contributor of ideas and
responses in my group.
I found organising the data a bit challenging but
I could cope with the majority of it. I did share
ideas and confirmed my own with other people. I
had to concentrate but I felt I contributed my
fair share to the task and I did understand what
was expected of me.
I found the task quite difficult and I could only
absorb some of the information because I found it
hard to organise the data in order. I was able to
see where the most tsunamis had taken place but I
dont think I contributed too much to the group
effort due to my problem with understanding.
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Test your observation skills

• You will be given 1 minute to study the picture
  on the following slide.
• Then you will be asked 5 questions based on what
  you have seen in the picture plus 1 tricky bonus
  question.
• Will you get them all right?

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How observant are you?

• How many flags are there on the ship?
• What 3 colours is the ship painted?
• How many tyres are there in the picture?
• How many windows are there on the very top cabin
  of the ship?
• Which organisation has printed the photograph?

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BONUS QUESTION What is on the sand in the
bottom centre of the photograph?
Yellow, blue and white
A bucket
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National Geographic
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Your observation rating.

• 5BONUS
  PROFESSIONAL nothing gets past you
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  eagle eye.
• 4-5
  SEMI PRO. Your eye is on the
  ball
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  but make sure you get
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  the full picture.
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  AMATEUR. You see half of
  the
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  action but you need to
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  concentrate harder.
• 1-2
  NOVICE You have been caught
  napping.
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  Wake up to take note of what is
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  going on around you.

Add 1 point to your score if you managed to get
the bonus question correct
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How would you prioritise your use of skills
today?

• We have used a number of skills in the lesson
  today and you have rated your performance as we
  have gone along, but what do you think you have
  done best at?
• Look at the skills below and decide in what order
  you would put them in terms of your success.
• PROBLEM SOLVING
• INTERPRETATION
• TEAM WORK
• SEQUENCING
• OBSERVATION.

Which skill do you need to work on?
Which skill do you think you have done best in?