Neeble: Survey Project Articles By Team 20

ContentsIntroductionBy HenryMexican ImmigrationBy LeslyDo You Like Vegetables?By HenryBook GenresBy NatalieFavorite DogsBy EmmyTasers vs. GunsBy MadalinnyWhen You Are 25By MaryHow Many Kids Walk or Bike to School?By PeterWhat is Your Favorite Animal?By HannahHooks in the Hallway?: Questioning theClassroom Environment in Room 20By Mr. MarkWomen’s SportsBy SadieFavorite Book SeriesBy FrannyTechnologyBy Ashley

What is Your Favorite Computer Company?By SimonWhich Extinct Animal Do You Want to Bring Back?By TateNow vs. Then: What Do They Do with Their Free Time?By AbbeyDoes God Exist?By ConnorWho is Your Favorite YouTuber?By AlexSingers’ FeudBy KayleePop Music!By KellenAfter School RoutineBy PeytonWhat is Your Favorite Sport?By MikeWhich Brand is Better, Nike or Adidas?By AustinWhich Shoe Brand Do You Like Better Based on Functionality?By LawsonDoes an Animal Share a Personality with a Human?By PhilipFinding Favorite Football Teams!By Nakoa

Introduction By Henry This edition of Neeble shares the findings from surveys created by the kids inTeam 20. Kids created surveys about pop music questions, whether kids liked vegetables,favorite book genres, how people think about technology being used in daily life, whatkids do in their free time, what kids think they will be doing when they are twenty-five,and much more. The first step towards creating our surveys was thinking of a question. Kidsconferenced with one another and gave each other feedback. In Survey Monkey, wewrote an introduction to explain why we are interested in the topic we chose. Wecollected our data by taking each other’s surveys and then copying and pasting the resultsonto a Google Doc where we could code and highlight everything that was important.Once we analyzed our data, we answered five questions to help us with future steps:What did you find out by doing your survey? How do the results compare with youroriginal prediction? What surprises did you have? What problems did you have withcollecting data? If you were to do this survey again, what would you do differently? Forthe last step of survey project, we took the five questions that we answered and turnedthem into a journal article to post on our zine, Neeble!

Mexican ImmigrationBy LeslyTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction My questions were “Do you think it should be easier for people from Mexico toimmigrate to the United States?” and “Should children of illegal immigrants be grantedamnesty?” I’m interested in these questions because both sides of my family are fromMexico. I have always wondered about these kinds of things and I wanted to find outwhat other people think about this. My article will tell you about the creation of oursurveys, what people responded to my questions, my results, and our trip through thesteps in making this. The purpose of my survey was to learn people’s thoughts aboutimmigration.Procedure There were a lot of steps in the making of our surveys and articles. My first stepwas to brainstorm ten possible questions to use for my survey. Once we had them done,we chose the three that we thought could make a good survey. Next we made 30 secondpitches to go with each one explaining why it would make a good survey and why we areinterested in it. When we were done we got into small groups to conference and getfeedback. Our second step was to write an introduction. First we picked our question that wewould use for our survey and second we selected our side questions. We answered fourquestions including “Why are you interested in this question?” and “Who will benefitfrom your survey and your findings?” Our third step was to create our actual survey. Wewent to surveymonkey.com and got started on making our surveys. We gave our survey aname and created a small introduction. After that we used the builder menu to create oursurvey questions and side questions. The fourth step was to collect data from our survey. We took each other’s surveys,and even a few people outside of Team 20 took them. After two days, which was the timewe took to go through each other’s surveys, we went to surveymonkey.com and looked atour results. We looked at our results by checking our bar graphs, which you get whenpeople take your survey. We were also able to see why people chose their answer bylooking at their answers. Next we copied and pasted our results into Google Docs. Ourfifth step was to analyze data. I read my results and then read them again and made somesmall notes. Then I read them again and highlighted important words or phrases. Usingwhat we highlighted, we were able to find some themes between people’s responses. My sixth step was to reflect on these five questions, “What did you find out bydoing your survey?” “How do your results compare with your original prediction?”“What surprises did you have?” “What problems did you have with collecting data?” and“If you were to do this survey again what would you do differently?” Each answer had to

be at least a paragraph long. Our last and final step was to tell others! We wrote anarticle, which you are reading right now. We started by writing an introduction, secondthe procedure, then results, next was interpreting results, new directions and finally ourtitle. After we revised, got feedback from other kids, and conferenced with Mr. Mark, ourarticles went up in Neeble!!!Results My original question was, “Do you think it should be easier for people fromMexico to immigrate to the United States?” The majority of people said yes, 16 out of 23,which to me is not very surprising. I found a couple of different themes as I coded mydata. One theme about why it should be easier for them to immigrate to the United Stateshad to do with creating a better life and a new home. One person wrote, “I think it shouldbe easier for people from Mexico to immigrate to the United States because most peoplecould start a better life in the United States.” A second theme had to do with choice andfreedom. For example, someone wrote, “America is supposed to be the land of the free.”A third theme had to do with the closeness of the countries since their borders areconnected. Two people wrote about preserving social security as a reason why it shouldnot be easier for peoplefrom Mexico toimmigrate to the UnitedStates. One personwrote, “If people fromother countries came inwe would have problemswith security.” Anotherperson put no because“they are a differentculture.” I also had a fewpeople who didn’t answerthe question or wrote,“Because.” My second question was, “Do you think children of illegal immigrants should begranted amnesty?” The majority by far put yes, 16 out of 20. I also found a coupledifferent themes for this question including they are just children, have not done anyharm, equal rights, born, grew up, or raised in the United States and a few people who didnot answer or said, “Because.” I had two people who said they are just kids. For examplesomeone wrote, “Children are children.” Two people said they have not done any harm.For example someone wrote, “Any race, any gender, they won't do any harm to anyone.”Two people wrote about equal rights. For example, someone wrote, “I think all childrenshould be granted the same rights as an American because all children should be treatedfairly.” Lastly, I had a theme about their home being America. Someone wrote, “I thinkthey should be granted amnesty because this is where they grew up and they shouldn't bepunished for a choice they didn't make. I don't think it is fair if they should be sent away

from the communities theywere raised in.” As a reasonwhy they should not be grantedamnesty someone wrote,“Because their parents arefederally breaking the law sotheir children should not beallowed to become a citizen.” I had problems with afew people not taking mysurvey as seriously as I wouldhave liked. Some peopleskipped questions and somepeople said, “I don’t know.”Interpreting Results My prediction was that the majority of people would say yes to my questions. Itturned out to be correct. I also knew that some people were going to say no, which alsoturned out to be correct. That is just the way things are. Everyone has separate thoughtsand thinks differently from everyone else. I had predicted that a few people were going tohave one of their reasons to my first question be they could start a better life in the UnitedStates because in my knowledge that is why a lot of families come here. I was surprised that someone said no because they are a different culture. I mean Iknew people were going say no, but I think that was a bit racist. I am not trying to offendwhoever wrote that, I am just a bit shocked. Somebody said that America is supposed tobe the land of the free, and I totally agree and I am surprised someone brought it up. Iwas also surprised that someone skipped all the questions and just said, “I don’t know.” Iwish I could have known who it was so I could find out a bit more than just “I don’tknow.” If I was to do this again I would ask people to be more specific and to try not toskip questions if it could be prevented.New Directions I would like to make another survey because almost all of my responses were fromkids. If I could I would make another survey for adults or people that know more aboutthis topic. Since they would have a bit more knowledge they would probably have adifferent point of view. I would like to compare the results and see what is different andwhat is the same about the answers. It would also be interesting to ask people who havefamily in Mexico or people in Mexico for their responses. I would like to keep studyingthis topic and see what else I can learn about it. This is a very interesting topic and a verybig one as well, but I think that it is a very important topic.

Do You Like Vegetables?By HenryTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction I started out with a question: “Do you like vegetables?” I chose this question formy survey project because adults think that all kids dislike vegetables and it’s verystereotypical to think that. I want to know if that was the case. My prediction was thathalf the people who answered would answer that they dislike vegetables and the otherhalf would say that they like them. I predicted this because I thought that there would bea balance between kids who like vegetables and ones who don’t. It turned out that mostof the people that answered said that they like vegetables.Procedure We started this project by thinking of ten questions. Next we choose our bestthree. After that, we made 30-second pitches for each question to share in a kid-to-kid-to-kid-to-kid conference. Then we chose the final question and built our surveys onsurveymonkey.com. The next week we spent time answering each other’s surveys. Thenthe next day we continued to step four of the survey project procedure: analyze data. Toanalyze our data we started by copying and pasting the survey results onto a Google Doc.Then we went through a process of coding our data, reflecting on our data, andconnecting our main survey question to articles off of the web. After step four Mr. Markgave us a Google Doc that we would write our final drafts on. Finally, we posted thesearticles on our zine, Neeble!Results Through doing my survey, I found out that most kids actually like vegetables. Myfirst question was, “Do you like vegetables?” Out of 28 responses, 46 percent said, “Yes,I LOVE them!!”, 39percent said, “They’reok,” and 14 percentsaid, “They’re not sogood.” My secondquestion was, “A lot ofkids supposedly dislikebroccoli, do you?” 85percent said “Yes, I likebroccoli”, and 14percent said “No, I hatethem.” My thirdquestion was “If you

don’t like broccoli, would you like them more if they were prepared differently? If youlike them, leave this box empty.” There was a lot of negative responses like “broccoli isevil,” or unhelpful responses like “yaya” or “no.” Really weird responses. My fourthquestion was “If all vegetables were prepared differently, would you like them more?”Surprisingly, 53 percent said that they like vegetables plain, and 46 percent said that theywould like vegetables more. My fifth question was connected to the fourth; “Why?”There were a lot of responses that talked about how they just liked them plain. The otherhalf said that they would taste better, but it was a yes and no question and half said noand half said yes. I had a lot of problems with collecting my data. For instance, a lot of people saidweird things like “e2ourg” or just “because!” and it was really confusing to analyze mydata. I found the connection to literature difficult because there were few articles aboutkids and vegetables. I only found two that worked but were kind of distant, and I didn’treally get it. All and all it was a difficult process to go through the whole thing.Interpreting Results My results were inaccurate compared to my prediction. My prediction was thathalf the people who answered would answer that they dislike vegetables and the otherhalf would say that they like them. It turned out that most of the people that answeredsaid that they like vegetables. Very few said no. For the question “If all vegetables wereprepared differently, would you like them more?” the results were pretty even, but in thelong run the majority said that they like they’re vegetables plain. I looked up the topic of vegetables in school lunches on npr.org and found a storyby Patti Neighmond titled “Selling Kids On Vegetables When Rules Like ‘Clean YourPlate’ Fail.” She notes that kids often don’t follow their parents’ rules about eating theirveggies nor do they obey their parents by drinking soda and eating chips when the timeisn’t right. Interviewed in this story was Kristy King, a registered dietitian at TexasChildren's Hospital, who observes that the better option for getting kids to eat “right” iscreative negotiation, such as “Try it Tuesdays” during which parents and children try anew food together after both are involved in preparing the dish. This means that schoolsmight consider preparing their vegetables differently, having a day designated for tryingnew foods, and having kids involved in the cooking. Across the country, many students have been found to throw away the vegetablesin their school lunch. According to a Newsela article, the head of the Kansas schooldistrict’s food service, Brad Kramer, says that he wants to serve the students healthyfood, but he also knows that it does not do any good unless the they will actually eat it. Atheory I have is that this isn’t happening just in Kansas but all over the United States. Ithink it’s happening in every school to some extent. For example, at Lewis I see thatmost of the kids that I sit at a table with are more focused on talking to their friends thaneating their food, but I also see a lot of kids that are eating all of their veggies. I had very few surprises. If I had any surprises it would be that most kids wouldlike their veggies plain instead of with some sort of something on the side. Also, 24 outof 28 people said that they like broccoli. THAT was a big surprise.

New Directions I think that I could make another survey just about school lunch and vegetables togrow off of the survey I have already made. I could also make a survey about whatpeople’s favorite foods are or other questions like that. There is so much that you canlearn about with survey monkey, I think that I might want to also make a survey aboutwhat people’s favorite hobbies are.ReferencesNeighmond, P. (2013, March 4). Selling kids on vegetables when rules like “clean your plate” fail. National Public Radio. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/04/173275456/selling-kids-on-veggies- when-rules-like-clean-your-plate-failNewsela and McClatchy Washington Bureau. (2015, March 9). Schools say too much food is being wasted. Newsela. Retrieved from https://newsela.com/articles/schoollunch-standards/id/7852Book GenresBy NatalieTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction I am interested in book genres because I like reading books, and I'm interested inwhat other people like reading. I am interested in what people will choose and what theywon’t. I predict that the votes will be cut in half for the question, “What is your favoritebook genre out of the two?” which was non-fiction and fiction. I also think that there willbe a lot of books that I recognize in the question, “If you like fiction, what is yourfavorite fiction book?” The purpose of my survey is so I can read more on the genre thatgot the most responses.Procedure The first step to my survey project was brainstorming ten questions. I chose thethree that I thought were the best. Then I got in a group of four and conferenced. In 30seconds I shared my first question, why I was interested in it and why other people wouldbenefit from that question. Then I went to my next question and shared about thatquestion, and then my third question. The three people that were listening to me chosethe question that they thought was the best for a survey, and they gave me feedback. ThenI wrote an introduction and answered four questions about my final question. I wrotewhy I was interested in this topic and why other people would benefit from it. Then Icreated my survey on surveymonkey.com. I used the builder menu to make questions

and side questions. I also made an introduction for my survey that said why I wanted todo the survey and why other people would benefit from it. Then I moved on to collecting data. All of our class took each other’s surveys.Then I looked at my results at surveymonkey.com and looked at the bar graphs from thesurvey. I copied and pasted my results into my Google Docs from Survey Monkey. Ianalyzed my data by reading through my results and reading it again. I took small notesabout my results and read them again. I highlighted important words and phrases, andmy themes emerged. I reflected on the five questions. “What did you find out by doingyour survey? How do the results compare with your original prediction? What surprisesdid you have? What problems did you have with collecting data? If you were to do thissurvey again what would you do differently?” The last step was telling others. I wrote anarticle with the introduction, the procedure, the results, the interpreting results, the newdirections, and the title. All of our surveys will be published in a book called,“NEEBLE!”Results When I read my responses I found out that way more people liked fiction betterthan non-fiction. My question was, “What is your favorite genre out of the two.” (Non-fiction or fiction.) 75 percent liked fiction, and 25 percent liked non-fiction. More peoplelike fiction better because they say it is more adventurous and imaginary. Some peoplelike non-fiction better because they say can learn more about things that are actually real.People say that non-fiction can get boring after a while, but some say fiction can too.Some like to learn about things that can’t really happen. A couple of people said thatfiction is better because you can do anything. Two of the responses said that in fictionyou can make stuff up. Another person wrote that when you read fiction it almost feelslike you're the character or you’re in the book. Another question I asked was, “What is so interesting about that genre?” I got a lotof responses that fiction is adventurous and interesting. I got one response that the writerhas to be creative to write fiction. Three people said that fiction is very imaginative.There was one response that said fiction captures my mind in a different way. Two people said that anything can happen in fiction. One person said that non-fiction has morelife to it. Otherssaid that they likenon-fictionbecause they canlearn newinformation. Acouple of peoplesaid that non-fiction issomething youcan read about to

understand more information better. My third question was, “If you like multiple genres name a few.” Five people saidthat they really like historical fiction, eight people said that they liked fantasy, and threepeople said they liked mystery. I also got some responses that said they liked sci-fi,horror, myths, suspense, poetry, realistic fiction, and comics. One person said, “No,”instead of taking their time to write some other genres that they enjoy. One person putYAEH for one of their favorite book genres. I don’t know if they were trying to sayYEAH, or if there is actually a genre called YAEH. One person said what their first,second, and third favorite genres are. My fourth question was, “How old are you?” 65 percent said that they were 18and younger. 34 percent said that they were 18 and older. My fifth question was, “If youlike fiction, what is your favorite fiction book?” There were a lot of books I have neverheard of. Some of the books I knew were Island of the Blue Dolphin, and The Witches.My sixth question was, “If you like non-fiction, what is your favorite non-fiction book?”I only knew one of the books and that was Harry Potter, though I’ve never read thebooks. This is confusing because Harry Potter is fiction, not non-fiction.Interpreting Results When I first put my survey on the internet I thought a lot of people were going tolike fiction better than non-fiction. Then when I looked for my results about 30 percentmore liked fiction. When I thought that more people would like fiction, I didn’t think thatI would get that many responses. My prediction and my final results were off by a lot.What I noticed was different, was the non-fiction graph. Another surprise was when Iasked about what was interesting about that genre and a couple of people just wrote downbecause it’s interesting, and I was wondering why it was interesting. Another person saidthey like fiction because it felt like you were the character. One person said that fictionhas more life to it. Another person said, “It captures my mind in a different way.” When I asked if you like multiple genres, a lot of people said they liked historicalfiction. I was surprised when I only knew three of the books that were posted. If I wereto do this survey again I don’t think I would put the question, “What was so interestingabout that genre?” I don’t think I should put that question on there because I got a coupleof responses that said, “LOOK UP THERE,” like I had already put that question in adifferent section. Or at least I need to make that question clearer.New Directions A survey that could come off this survey could be, “What is your least favoritebook genre?” Instead of, “What is your favorite book genre?” I could ask, “Why don’tyou like that genre?” I could also ask, “If you saw an appealing book in the genre youdidn’t really like, would you change your mind about not liking that genre?” Anothersurvey that could lead off of this one could be, “What is your favorite book genre?” butinstead of having two options (nonfiction and fiction), they would write their favoritebook genre in a textbox themselves. I could ask most of the same questions, but there

would be a wider variety of genres because their writing the genre they like themselves.A survey I’m interested for next time could be about what their favorite subjects are inschool.Favorite DogsBy EmmyTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction I chose to do my survey on dogs because I really like dogs! My favorite kinds arecorgis and labs and I have always wanted to have one. I do have cats, but they are not thesame as dogs. I am super interested in dogs! I want to see what type of dogs other peoplelike, and if they like corgis or labs like me! I also wonder why people will prefer the typeof dog they pick. I predict that a lot of people will choose the dachshund because they arejust so adorable, like little furry hot dogs! I also think that the corgi will get a lot of votesbecause they are just so friendly, funny, fat sometimes, and pretty cute too! I don’t thinkthat chihuahuas will get a lot of votes though, because they bark a lot and are annoyingsometimes. The purpose of my survey is to see what type of dogs people like, why theylike them, and are they the same dogs I prefer! I wonder which dog will get the mostvotes!Procedure The first step of my survey was to brainstorm ten questions. Then I chose three ofmy best questions, and practiced a thirty second pitch for each of them. After that I metup with three other kids and conferenced. We all shared our three thirty second pitchesand gave each other feedback on which we thought was the best, or which we thoughtdidn’t make sense. Then we decided on our best question to do our survey on andanswered four questions about it: What is your final question? Why are you interested inthis question? Why should others learn about your findings? Who will benefit from yoursurvey and findings? After I answered the four questions, I began to build my surveyusing surveymonkey.com. I used the builder menu to create my survey. I had mainquestions and side questions coming off of the main ones. I also created an introductionto my survey. My survey was finished! After this we took each other’s surveys. Then we looked at our results in bargraphs! I copied and pasted my results into Google Docs. I read through my results a lot,and made small notes about what I noticed. Then I coded my data. I looked through mydata and found themes about why people chose their answer. Next I reflected on fivequestions: What did you find out by doing your survey? How do your results comparewith your original prediction? What surprises did you have? What problems did you havewith collecting your data? If you were to do this survey again what would you do

differently? My next step was to tell others! We wrote articles which had five mainsteps! The introduction, procedure, results, interpreting results, and new directions!Results Doing this survey, I found out which dog most people like, and what dog mostpeople don’t like. The labrador got 37.50%, the husky got 28.13%, the corgi got 21.88%,the chihuahua got 12.50%, andthe dachshund got 9.38%. I alsofound out why people likelabradors so much. For examplesome responses were, “I likelabradors because they arenotoriously friendly and kind!”and, “They are loyal to you andalways your companion” and“Sweet, loveable” and “I lovelabradors because they areloyal, smart, loveable, andreally beautiful.” There were somany responses on why peopleliked labs. I also found out how many people had dogs. 52.94% did and 47.06% didn’t. I alsofound out what type of dogs people have. Most people have totally different kinds, suchas dachshunds, pitbulls, labradoodles, pugs, poodles, yorkies, dalmations, and bostonterriers. I also found out if people want dogs. Most people do, and a very small percentdon’t. I can’t believe that somebody wouldn’t want to have a dog! I didn’t have manyproblems collecting my data,but on the first question“What kind of dog is yourfavorite?” somebody said theydidn’t like any of the dogs.They said that they wanted an“other” button to click and atextbox to type what theirfavorite kind of dog is, if youdidn’t like any of the dogs Iput.

Interpreting Results The results of my survey kind of compared with my original prediction because Idid think that the labrador would get a lot of votes, but not the most! I could see whypeople would pick the labrador though. They are friendly, loyal, smart, lovable, and theyare always your companion! What I was not expecting though was the dachshund to getso few votes! I thought most people would vote for them, because they are so adorable! Ialso thought the corgi would get more votes, because they are so cute too! I was also notexpecting so many people not to have dogs. I had a few surprises when going through my data. I had no idea that thedachshund would get the least amount of votes! I thought that they would get the mostvotes! I was also surprised that the corgi didn’t get more votes! I love corgis! I was alsosurprised about the number of people who don’t have dogs. It seems like everyone doesto me. I was also surprised that anybody wouldn’t want to have a dog. If I were to do my survey again I would put another choice and textbox for thequestion “What kind of dog is your favorite?”New Directions I think I could do another survey off of this one. Maybe I would do one on adifferent animal, like cats, reptiles, or fantasy creatures! I also wonder what people’s leastfavorite dogs are and why. That would be a good survey as well!Tasers vs GunsBy MadalinnyTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction Do you think that cops should have tasers instead of guns? I am interested in thisquestion because a lot of people are getting shot. The purpose of my survey was that Iwant to know how people feel about this. I think other people should learn about myfinding because I think it is a really good question to think about. I think it would benefitthe people so they won't get hurt.Procedure I began my survey by first coming up with 10 questions. I picked three that Ithought would be the best. Then I signed up for a kid-to-kid-to-kid-to-kid conference and

we only got 30 seconds to give a pitch for each of our three ideas. After we were doneconferencing, we talked about how we liked each other’s ideas and wrote which idea wethought was best. After that, we answered four questions about our chosen questions.What is your final question? Why are you interested in this question? Why should otherslearn about your findings? Who will benefit from your survey and findings? Mr. Mark showed us how to use surveymonkey.com to create our own surveys.We made introductions. When he showed us how to use the website we put in ourquestions and side questions on the page. Later in the week we answered each other’ssurvey. After we got all the results we read through and took small notes. We highlightedthe words that we thought were important. When we were done, we analyzed our dataand we saw how our results were different than we thought it would be. Finally we put itall in an article to go in Neeble!Results From doing my survey and reading different articles, I found that a lot of peopleare getting killed or hurt by guns and mostly because of racism, like in the stories from inNew York and in Ferguson, Missouri. These stories are about policemen killing peopleand there are even some people who took my survey that brought this up. Looking through my data, the first theme I found is if police used tasers instead ofguns, then maybe fewer people would be hurt or killed. For example, one person wrote,“Police officers should have tasers instead of guns so that they don't cause lasting damageto those they are pursuing.” Another person wrote that if police used tasers then maybe“less people would be getting hurt.” The second theme Ifound is that tasers couldbe a good first alternativeto guns. For example, “Insome European countries,much of the police force isnormally unarmed (nogun).” Another personwrote, “I think in somesituations tasers would bemore appropriate than guns(traffic cops, etc.)” A thirdperson wrote, “Tasersshould be the first thingthey use.” One person wrote about how there is a problem with racism in some policedepartments. They wrote, “There is a systemic culture of racism present in many policedepartments. Cops routinely abuse their authority and violate people's civil rights. Copshave killed many unarmed African-Americans and other minorities.”

The problem that I had was that some people said “I don’t know” but they did notgive a good reason like “I chose this answer because...”Interpreting Results The results were similar to my original prediction. I thought my results weregoing to be that most people picked “yes” and that no one picked “I do not know,” butthere were 16.67 percent of people that did picked “I do not know.” My sister-in-law andI were talking and we both said that all the people were going to pick “yes.” In the end,there were 20 percent that chose “no.” Out of all of that, I was right when I said thatthere were going to be more people who picked “yes.” The comments that surprised me were that there are some countries where policeofficers are not armed, like in some European countries, Costa Rica, Haiti, and Grenada,because I did not know that some countries were unarmed. One thought that stayed with me is that by killing someone who has killed or hurtsomeone else, you're not making yourself any better than them. It is still hurtingsomeone else. By anger or hurting someone, you’re not going to be the best person,you’re going to be the same as them. I think it is important for people to remember thisbecause the message of Martin Luther King, Jr., was non-violence. Basically by hurtingothers, you are hurting yourself. What I would do differently if I did this survey again would be to say that youhave to have a specific answer to the answer that you picked.New Directions My survey was answered by people from my class and by some adults and we didnot ask the police department, but I wonder what results I would get if I asked the policeabout my survey. What would they think about not having guns? Other things, if I couldask the police: How would they feel without a gun by their side? Would it feel thatdifferent? Would they feel scared or would they feel the same? If I could, I would ask thecops, “Would you be scared if someone came up to you with a gun and they said that ifyou do not listen they will take you?” What would you do?When You Are 25By MaryTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction I picked this question because I think it helps kids think more about what they'regoing to be when they are older because when you are an adult you probably neverthought about what you want to be when you're older, which could lead to problems. Youneed to make mistakes when you are younger so you don't make as many when you are

an adult. When you are an adult you have to be serious and know what you want to do. Ifyou don’t, you probably can't make a living. You can get into trouble like take moneyand soon need to pay it back. You can spend it all on things you don't need like going to aliquor store and spending it all when you could have used it for buying a car or paying forfood. All of that can happen just by not paying attention and thinking about it. You can'tstay in your parents basement forever. Soon you have to start paying rent and move out.Then when you find a job, you have to stick to it. Something is better than nothing.Therefore, the purpose of my survey was to make sure kids start thinking about what jobthey want.Procedure I began my survey project by brainstorming a list of ten questions that I mightwant for my survey. Then I picked three and made a 30 second pitch to share about eachduring a kid-to-kid-to-kid-to-kid confidence. I got feedback like, “I love that question,but you should do the other one because...” and then a reason why. Sometimes it wouldbe hard to give feedback because they would have lots of nice questions, but you couldonly pick one. I had kind of a problem. I did not know which one to pick, but sooner orlater I did. Our second step was to answer the four questions: (1) What is your finalquestion? (2) Why are you interested in this question? (3) Why should others learn aboutyour findings? (4) Who will benefit from your survey? Soon I picked which question Iwanted and it worked out. We went on surveymonkey.com to create our survey and used the builder menu tomake an introduction to our survey and added a main question and some side questions.My main question was “When you are 25 what do you predict you will be doing?” Oneside question was “Do you think your job will help you country?” We had our surveysdone, which sounds easy, but it takes longer than you think. This part I think took us likefour or five days. To make all the side questions and design how you want your surveytakes probably two days for everyone to finish together. After all that work, we took each other’s surveys. Some were fun and some wereboring, but all were interesting, and I was curious to wonder why people were interestedin their topics. We looked at our results. I think I got really good results. I got a few badones, but it was still good. We went on Survey Monkey and looked at bar graphs. Nextwe copied and pasted our data into our Google Docs. We started reading through our results. I read mine again and took small notes.Next we went through and highlighted important words and phrases to look for themes.Some of my first ones were sports related and teaching related. I coded sports yellow andteaching was green. Then we reflected on five questions which were “What did you findout doing your survey?” “How do the results compare with your original prediction?”“What surprises did you have?” “What problems did you have collecting data?” “If youwere to do this survey again, what would you do differently?” These questions took me awhile to finish because I wanted to do a paragraph for each answer. I did not get to do aparagraph for each, but I did for two and wrote twelve paragraphs altogether.

Finally we wrote the introduction, procedure, results, interpreting results and newdirections. We wrote a title. With everything together, it gets published in Neeble!!!!This part took a little while, but now people are almost finished, so we can begin a newassignment that is just as fun as this one.Results When I looked at my data I realized lots of kids like sports. My first question was,“When you are 25 what do youpredict you would be doing?” Ionly got 21 responses. Most ofmy responses were about sportsand some about teaching. Forexample, a few people said theywould be playing basketball orteaching kindergarten. Morepeople picked bigger jobs likesecretary or a marine biologistand things that you would haveto take a job interview like oneperson said, “Biologist, cause itjust seems really interesting.” Iam happy that I didn’t get somany useless ones. I only gotfour. Once I looked at this data I realized that a group of kids picked that job becausethey were good at it or really loved to do it for fun. My second question was “What madeyou pick this job? Why?” this time I only got 20. So someone skipped this one. One thingI keep getting from people is that they love doing something. For example, one personpicked veterinarian and this is what they put down for why “I picked this job because Ilove animals and I want to helpthem any way I can.” Anotherperson put they think they willbe in the WNBA and for whythey put “I have a love forbasketball.” Another one I gotwas that they were good at it ortheir parents did it too. Forexample someone put pro sportsand for why they put “I am veryathletic.” One person put asecretary because there mom didit this is what they said “It was

what my mom did and I thought it would be fun and it was.” I am happy this time I onlyhad three unhelpful ones. For my third ,when I looked through it I realized that most people plan on going toa certain college for what they want to be. My question was “Do you plan on going to acertain college for what you are going to be?” I got 60.00% on yes and 40.00% for no. Iam glad that more people said yes than no. For my next question, I did was pretty even. The question was “If you said yes tolast question are you saving up right now for that college?” For yes, I got 35.39% and Igot the same for no. For I did not put yes on the last question I got 29.41%. I amsurprised that yes and no have the same response amount. My next question was “Do you want to be what your parents are?” I got 15.00%for yes and for no I got 75.00% and for I have not decided mom or dad’s job yet I got10.00%. I thought that kids were more like their parents. This one really surprised me my question was “Do you think your job will helpyour country?” I got 9 people who think their job will help and 9 who think it will nothelp and 2 other answers that were not helpful. I would not say these are themes, but afew answers are “I do! My job helps my country every day!” and “No. but it will help thegaming community” also “maybe” “probably”. I did not like the maybe or probably. Forthis question, I thought there would be more yes than no because almost everything youdo helps you country like taking the trash out helps and recycling to it all helps. Some problems I had was all the weird answers. Like one answer I dislike a lot “Iwill be looking for a girlfriend and playing assassins creed.” That was the one I hatedmost and there was one person who did not answer most of my questions. That wasmainly my problems.Interpreting Results Well I knew that maybe there would lots of sports because almost all the boys playbasketball or some other sport. My first question was “When you are 25 what can youpredict you will be doing? Why?” most my answers were the same as I predicted andsome you just can't predict like boxing. I wonder who put that down. For my nextquestion I put down “What made you pick this job? Why?” and I got pretty good answersbut I wasn't predicting that someone would say children have so much to teach me. I didpredict that most would be because they love something or they're good at it. For myquestion I put “Do you plan on going to a certain college for what you want to be?” I gotmore yes than no by like 20. That was my guess. It makes me happy to see that. I did have lots of surprises like how little kids think their soon jobs will help theircountry, how a lot of kids picked different jobs than their parents, and how little kidshave been saving up for college. I did get pretty good answers, which makes me happy.

Next time, I know that I would be a little more specific about what I write. Forquestions, like “When you are 25 what do you predict you will be doing? Why?” somepeople put down things that were not jobs. When they got to the next question “Whatmade you pick this job? Why?” I got answers like “Job?” and “no idea” and “living.” Soinstead I would put “What job do you think you would have when you are 25?” so therewould be no more confusion.New Directions I think if I was to do another survey, I would do one asking people what they wishthey had thought about when they were kids. I think that would be a good next step forme with my survey. I want to know how many people probably messed up when theywere younger and how many people did not mess up and paid attention. If I picked amain question for a survey for adults that is close to this one it would be, “When youwere a kid what did you want to be?”How Many Kids Walk or Bike to School?By PeterTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction I walk and bike to Lewis Elementary School almost every day. This questionpopped into my mind, “How many kids walk or bike to school?” I am interested in thisquestion because I wonder if kids are getting enough exercise, if kids walk or bike toreduce pollution from cars, or if people do this to save money on gas. Therefore, thepurpose of my survey was to find out how kids get to and from school.Procedure First we started by making ten questions and picking the best. Then we made 30second pitches and shared them in a K2K2K2K Conf (A.K.A. kid to kid to kid to kidconference).We got feedback from the group. Then we went to the blog and answeredfour questions: What is your final question?, Why are you interested in this question?,Why should others learn about your findings?, and Who will benefit from your surveyand findings? Then we made surveys on surveymonkey.com using the builder menu. Then we took each other’s survey and looked at the results. We copied and pastedthe results into Google Docs. Then we read through the results and took small notes. Weread it again and highlighted important words and phrases along the way themesemerged. Next we reflected on five questions: What did you find out by doing your survey?How do the results compare with your original prediction? What was similar? What was

different? What surprises did you have? What problems did you have with collectingdata?, and If you were to do this survey again, what would you do differently? Then wewrote an article with five categories and the categories were: introduction, procedure,results, interpreting results, new directions, and a title. Last, we put it on Neeble.Results By doing my survey, I found out how kids get to Lewis. My first question was,“On average how many days a week do you walk to school?” I found that over 40 percentof kids never walk to school, and 22 percent of kids walk to school every day. Mysecond question was, “On average, how many days per week do you bike to school?”About 70 percent of kids never bike to school, and 30 percent bike to school between oneand three days a week. My third question was, “On average how many days a week doyou drive to school” I found over 21 percent of kids do not drive to school any days in aweek. My last question was “On average how many days a week do you ride on a bus toschool” and no one rides the bus at all. I did have some problems with collecting data. Some people replied withthoughtless answers that were not helpful like “I don't know” or “because I am lazy” and“because I do” and there were many more. There were also some thoughtful responseslike, “because live close and it’s nice to go for a walk” and “I use this mode because it isfun to go really fast on a bike.”Interpreting Results The results were little different than my original prediction. My prediction wasthat people walk and bike more than drive a car. But it was not true. More people drive toschool then walk or bike. In my opinion I think it is very sad. I was surprised that peopledrove more often than they walked, biked or took the bus. It was surprising because lastyear the fifth graders did a survey like this and more people walked and biked to schoolthen this year. If I did this survey again, I would make two changes. I would ask eachparticipant to take the survey with a parent or guardian and ask do you park and walk,which means do you park your car and walk and block to school.New Directions New surveys that could come off of this one could be to ask the same questions inthis survey to kids in high school and middle school. Another question I could ask is,“How long do you exercise a day five days a week?”

What is Your Favorite Animal?By HannahTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction I’ve always been an animal lover. I have 37 chickens, one dog, two cats, sevenfish, three frogs, 15 tiny snails, one bunny and I hope to get more! I am interested inknowing what peoples’ favorite animals are because it’s interesting to know how manypeople like dogs, pandas, elephants, or monkeys. My favorite animal is a panda so Iwanted to know if people liked pandas the most. Most people liked dogs. Therefore, thepurpose of my survey was to learn who likes what and how many people liked pandas,because they're my favorite animals.Procedure When I first started my survey project I was brainstorming ideas. I came up withten questions of what I should do for my survey project. I chose the three best questionsfrom the ten ideas. Then I got in a group of four and spoke in 30 second pitches for eachof my questions. My group gave me feedback and told me which question topic was thebest out of the three. Then came the second step, writing our introduction. I answeredfour questions. The four questions are, “Why are you interested in this question, Whowill benefit survey and findings, Why should others learn about your findings, and Whatis your final question.” The third step is creating our survey. First I wrote an introduction and then I wrotemy main question and side questions. Next, I used the builder menu onsurveymonkey.com. The fourth step is collecting data. First our class took each other’ssurveys and then we looked at our results. I copied and pasted my results in to GoogleDocs. Then I analyzed my data. First I read through my results. Then I read it again andtook small notes about my results. I read it again and highlighted important words andphrases. Then I reflected on five questions. These are the five questions, “What did youfind out by doing your survey, how do your results compare with your originalprediction, what surprises did you have, if you did this survey again what would you dodifferently, and what problems did you have when doing your survey.” The last step isTelling others! I wrote my article which included five main steps. The five main stepsare: introduction, procedure, results, interpreting results, and new directions. The purposeof my survey was to collect data.Results By doing my survey, I found out about people’s favorite animals. 25 people tookmy survey. I found out that 44% liked dogs, 16% elephants, 20% pandas, and 20%monkeys. Most people liked dogs. My second question was, “Why do you like thisanimal?” Three themes emerged as I look at my data for this question. one theme is that

thirteen people chose their animal because it is cute. For example, one person wrote, “Ilike this animal because they are cute and they are my favorite animal at the zoo.”Another person wrote, “Dogs are cute and friendly!” A second theme is that ten people really described why they want that animal. Forexample, one person wrote,“Dogs are cute and friendly!They are good companions.”Another person wrote, “Becausethey are nice and loyal.” For mysecond question I didn't get goodresponses, because I didn’t knowwhy they really liked it. Someexamples are, “They are cute.”Someone else wrote, “Cute.” A third theme is that fourpeople wrote that they chosetheir animal because it is a goodcompanion. For example,” Theyare so cute I've liked them since Iwas little.”Interpreting Results I thought that people would like dogs because their house pets. I was right mostpeople liked dogs. I didn’t have any surprises with my survey. If I did my survey again, Iwould add more questions, and more detail to my questions. I would add more choices onmy first question. I would also ask some of my family to take my survey so I would getmore results.New Directions If I did another survey again, I would chose a different subject and add morequestions. I would add more options and more detail. A survey that came to mind was,“Which animal do you like the least and why?” I could ask, “What is your second leastfavorite animal?” If I were to do another survey it would be, “What is your favoritecolor?”

Hooks in the Hallway?: Questioning theClassroom Environment in Room 20By Mr. MarkTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction As teacher, I recognize that the classroom environment is a vital part of teachingand learning in room 20. I strive to create an environment that is planned and intentionalso that the kind of education I want for my kids can be carried out. In February, Iattended the IntegratedEd conference and heard a principal and teacher share aboutclassroom and school environments. One takeaway that I had was to question what wasreally needed in a classroom. Curt Rees, a principal in Wisconsin, asked how peoplewant to feel in a classroom space and pointed out that classrooms are often cluttered withtoo much stuff. This idea that “less is better” stuck with me. In one example, PamelaKennedy talked about how nice it is to have kids’ coats and backpacks in the hallway,that this opens the classroom to create more space for kids, the teacher, and for teachingand learning. While creating more space in our classroom could be useful this year, itmay be more useful next year, because I may teach closer to thirty kids. Therefore, the purpose of my survey was to gain feedback from Team 20 aboutways we could improve our classroom environment. More specifically, I wanted theirdirect input in regard to moving our coat hooks to the hallway to open more space in ourroom. I wanted to learn what other ideas they have.Procedure I began my survey project by thinking about different topics that are relevant tomy role as teacher and our classroom. I wanted to frame my survey in a way that I couldlearn more about my kids and then use that data to inform teaching and learning in room20. I have always been interested in the topic of classroom environment, so I decided tohave that be the focus. We all used Survey Monkey to build our surveys online. It was new for everyone.I enjoyed how we pooled our knowledge as a team with many kids sharing what theywere learning about the nuances of the site as we went. I collected data as kids answeredmy survey. Then I analyzed my data by reading through my results, making some notesas I read through my data a second time, and highlighting important words to code mydata in an effort to have themes emerge from my results. Next, I wrote about what Ifound out, how the results compared with my prediction, the surprises and problems Ihad, as well as what I would do differently when writing a survey in the future. Finally, Iwrote this article as a way to share my findings with others in Neeble, our classroom zine.

Results Reading through and coding my data to look for themes helped me draw someconclusions about the responses I received to my survey questions. My primary questionwas, “Should we move our coat hooks from in the classroom to on the wall in thehallway?” The results to this question were very much split in half. Ten of 19 peopleresponded that they wanted the coat hooks moved to the hallway. Two themes emerged while coding my data about why kids wanted to move thecoat hooks to the hallway. The first theme is that moving the hooks would create morespace in our room. Six of 13 responses to this question connected with this theme. Forexample, one response was, “I chose yes because we could use that space for moreimportant things.” A second response was, “I think it would give us more space.” Thesecond theme is that nextyear with more kids theroom could use morespace. Three of 13responses to this questionconnected with thistheme. For example, “Ichose yes for number twobecause if there are morekids in this classroomnext year it will createmore space” and “Moreroom, more kids. Not forthese 24 kids, but for 30 itshould work.” Two themes emerged while coding my data about why kids wanted coat hooks tostay in our classroom. The first theme is that we already have plenty of space in ourclassroom. For example, kids wrote, “We have lots of space” and “I think it is too late tochange because we don't really need too much space in the class.” The second theme isthat the transition to get coats could be harder or more confusing if the hooks were in thehall. Responses include, “No because then there would be more confusion” and “Itwould be harder to make quick transition to get our coats and stuff and take us longer toget outside. Also we are loud to get coats and we would probably disrupt classes.” Therewas also a single response that it feels better with the coat hooks in the classroom. Another survey question was about what to do with the space in our room if wewere to move the coat hooks to the hallway. In the question, I wrote that I think weshould add side tables to that area of our classroom to create more spaces that kids arefree to move and sit during workshops or DEAR. Seventy-two percent of surveyresponses agree that this space should be used for side tables. I also asked the questions, “What do you appreciate about our current classroomenvironment?” and “What would you change?” Six responses wrote something about our

room feeling like home. Examples of responses that connect to this theme include, “Itfeels like my room, (except neater),” “It is cozy,” “It feels safe,” and “It just feels likehome.” Four responses wrote something about classroom lighting. For example, “Iappreciate the lamps” and “I appreciate the light system.” Four responses also mentionedthe library, the side tables, the windows, and the plants. For example, “I appreciate thatthe classroom has a big library of books” and “I like the side tables that are here.” Threeresponses didn’t answer the question, but instead wrote, “I enjoy everything in ourclassroom” and “It’s awesome.” I had some problems with collecting data. One of my survey questions is, “Whatdo you appreciate about the classroom?” Some people wrote that they appreciate theclassroom or that they like it alot, but they did not write whatit is about the classroom thatthey appreciate. It’s nice tohear that “it’s awesome,” butthat response does not answerthe question or give me a wayto think about what it is thatmakes the room awesome.Maybe some people respondedthis way because they wererushing. Maybe they didn’trealize that I really want toknow what they are thinking.I wish that they would havetaken more time to give mequality feedback so I couldknow what they were thinking. A second problem with collecting data is that I made a mistake when typingsurvey question six. I wrote, “If you chose no in question 4, how would you like to seethat space in our classroom used?” Rather than “question 4,” I should have typed“question 5.” I changed the order of my questions when revising, but did not update thenumber four to five. I only received three responses even though five people indicatedthat the space should be used for something other than side tables. I wish that I couldlearn what those two people were thinking.Interpreting Results The results to my survey were similar to my original prediction. I predicted thatsome kids would want coat hooks to remain in the classroom and that some kids wouldwant the hooks moved to the hallway. It was interesting to read the reasons behind theresponses. I could see that kids value having space for side tables, which made me thinkthat side tables are an important part of our classroom environment. Responses indicated

that having this space could be especially useful if the number of kids in room 20increases by 25 percent next year from 24 to 30. When I was hired to teach at Lewis, I remember walking into room 20 for the firsttime and thinking, “Ooh! This is a nice space!” Even with the tables and chairs in ajumble across the classroom, I could see that the size and shape of the room and wall ofwindows could communicate a welcoming environment for kids. I was eager to arrangethe classroom in a way that communicated to my kids the values that I hold for education.I value kids having the freedom to move and create their best learning environment. Thisis why I included side tables in the classroom design. I want kids to have the opportunityfor choice. They give me responsibility in exchange for this freedom. I also value learning as a social activity. I think that the design of the classroomcommunicates this philosophy. Kids have a home base at one of five tables around theroom. Each table seats four or five kids. The side tables also allow for multiple kids at atime. Tables are different than desks. The arrangement of kids sitting in a small groupfacing one another is different than sitting in individual desks in rows all facing in onedirection. The way the tables are arranged in room 20 supports my philosophy thatlearning is a social process. I think that the best learning happens when there is a buzz offocused conversation in the room. Kids use their knowledge to help each other for thirtyseconds or a minute and then get back to their own work. I designed our room aroundthis philosophy. Several responses included something about using the space where the coat hooksare currently located for more important things. What is really needed in a classroom?What can we do without? Pamela Kennedy, a third grade teacher at Lewis, and I havehad multiple conversations about classroom environment. She said that she tries to keepin the room only that which is needed. For example, she reduced the number of trashcans in the room from two to one to open up more space for kids. This seems like a smallchange, but removing one trash can does open up two square feet of space. Both of ushave joked about how we removed three file cabinets when we moved into ourclassrooms. Removing these created more space for kids. Moving the coat hooks to thehallway would change the way twenty square feet are used in our room. I had several surprises when looking at my survey data. Two kids wrote that thetransition to get coats for break could be more challenging. I agree. It is currently areally simple transition for kids to walk over, get coats, and get in line to head outside.The transition to coats in the hallway seems workable. The piece that could be mostchallenging is being respectful to other classrooms by keeping volume to a minimum inthe hallway. I certainly think we could do this. I wonder if we would line up in thehallway in front of the mural by the library, rather than returning to line up the classroom.This would save some time. If kids were already quiet to be respectful of other classeswhile in the hallway, this could just extend to lining up while in the hall. We would haveto work through this as a team. I think that I would like more feedback from kids inTeam 20 to help me think about this transition. A second surprise is the survey responses that mentioned the Chromebook cart.One person wrote in response to two questions that the Chromebooks cart is in the way

in its current location along the hallway side of our room. It was hard for me to decidewhere to put the cart. I would be open to moving it. I’m just not sure where else it couldgo. I wonder if it could go where the coat hooks are now. I would like to talk more withthe person who wrote these responses to learn more about what they are thinking. If I were to do this survey again, I would do several things differently. As teacher,I think I could have done a better job of frontloading the time in which kids took surveysto help them think about how their responses to a teammate’s survey impacts thatperson’s quality of data and ability to analyze data in a deep way. I write this becausesimilar to my desire to received more detailed responses to my questions about what kidsappreciate about the classroom, I heard from other kids that some responses to theirsurveys were briefer or less focused than they would have liked. Part of my role asteacher is helping kids develop their ability to be considerate of other people. This isLawrence Kohlberg’s fifth level in his Levels of Moral Development. Being gone fromthe classroom for a two-day training meant that I was not in the room to do thisfrontloading as kids began to fill out surveys. If I were in this situation in the future, Iwould leave an open-ended question about being considerate in my sub plans for kids totalk about as the survey project workshop begins in order to help set the tone. A second change I would make is to have some kids proofread my survey. Inroom 20, kids conference with each other regularly (kid-to-kid) and with me prior topublishing all work that has a public audience. I should hold myself to that samestandard. If I had conferenced prior to publishing my survey, I am sure someone wouldhave noticed my mistake. I think if the question was written correctly that I would havereceived more responses to that question.New Directions I have several ideas for surveys that could come off of this one. I wonder whatkids in Ms. Kennedy’s third grade think about having their coats and backpacks in thehallway. Do they like this? Would they prefer the hooks to be inside their classroom? Iknow that they have a neat looking reading space that was created where the hooks oncewere in the room. It looks like a fun place to read. I could use the opinions of those kidsto inform any changes that would come to room 20 regarding coat hooks, because theyhave similar personal experience. I think that surveys could be used at different times of the school year and fordifferent purposes. At the beginning of the next school year, I would like to ask kidssurvey questions to get to know them better. For example, I could ask them about theirpreferences about classroom environment. I could also ask them about personalfavorites, like what their favorite foods are or what they do on the weekend. I couldshare the same information about myself as a way for us to get to know one another. Itcould be fun to graph this information. We could even do this activity with our firstgrade buddies.

Women’s SportsBy SadieTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction My question is “Do you think there should be more women's football teams?” I aminterested in this question because my family's close friend, Jay, is working on a showcalled Bella and the Bulldogs. In the show they don't want a girl on a boy's football team.There is women's football, but it is not well known. If they had a football team that wasmore well known, but for women, then there would not be this problem. The purpose ofmy survey is that I want to know if people support the theory that there should be morewomen’s football teams or if they think otherwise. There are a lot of sports that men playmore than women, but football is one of the only sports that I just don’t see womenplaying. Title IX states that no one in the United States shall, based on gender, beexcluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected todiscrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal monetaryassistance. Unfortunately, that law is not totally followed. I want to see if people agreewith the law, or with the people who feel women don't need the same rights. Or maybeyou don't feel that way, you just think because people are all talking about the injuriesand brain damage, it’s not healthy and women shouldn’t play for that reason. I predictedmy answer would be that a lot of people would agree with my thoughts in having morewomen's football teams, but at the same time I was kind of expecting there to be peoplethat say it is only a men’s sport. Also like I mentioned there have been a lot of braindamage caused from football, which might be a reason why there are not many women'sfootball teams.Procedure Our project began with a dress. It is a long story. A classmate was doing work andhad found an ad with a picture of a dress and a caption under it saying blue and black orwhite and gold? That’s how it all started. There were a few people in our class that sawthe dress being blue and black, which confused me a lot because it was right in front ofmy eyes and there was no sign of blue or black on the dress to me. My teacher came overand was also confused why people saw blue and black. We all wanted to learn more. Sowe had made a whole class survey on the popular debate of the blue and black or whiteand gold dress. After that I found article on wired.com that had an explanation on thedress. The next day our teacher, Mr. Mark came over to our table and handed out a sheetthat had big bold letters on them that said Survey Project. Second, we picked what ourown surveys are going to be. For this we made a list of 10 things we were interested inlearning about. Third, we went in small groups for what my teacher, Mr. Mark, likes tocall a kid-to-kid-to-kid-to-kid conference. We did that by getting into a group of four, andthen we each gave a 30 second reason why we want to learn about that. We got feedback

and chose our survey question. Fourth, we answered four questions: What is your finalquestion? Why are you interested in this question? Why should others learn about yourfinding? Who will benefit from your survey and finding? Fifth, after answering thosequestions, we conferenced with Mr. Mark. Sixth, we went to surveymonkey.com andstarted first making an introduction about why we were interested in this question. Thenwe either copied and pasted it into the introduction part or wrote it again with moredetail. After we wrote our question and added side questions, we conferenced kid-to-kidwith another student. With them we changed our writing and added detail. Eighth, weconferenced with Mr. Mark and made more changes to the surveys. Ninth, aftereverybody had taken our surveys, we collected our data. We took all the commentspeople had made and copied and pasted them into our Google Docs document titledSurvey Project. We also put many other things like how many people said this and that,and if you had more questions doing that too. Step 10 was analyzing our data. We firstread through everything multiple times and took small notes on what we noticed in ourdata. Then we took the comments people said and highlighted the important parts inthem. After we answered these five bullet points: What did you find out by doing yoursurvey? How do the results compare with your original prediction? What was similar?What was different? What surprises did you have? What problems did you have withcollecting data? If you were to do this survey again, what would you do differently? Oureleventh step was another part of analyzing data about connecting to literature. We calledit “outside others.” We looked up our main topics on places like newsela.com and npr.organd fit it into our five questions. Our last step was using our notes to write this article.Results I found out that most people say that women should be able to play football andthat they have rights, too. Though after doing the survey there are other questions comingup. There were 22 people who answered. 17 people said yes, and five people said no. Alot of thingspeople said had todo with women'srights and sayingit isn’t fair. 77%of the peoplethought what Ithought, thatwomen haverights, too.People saidthings like “Thereis not enoughwomen’sfootball” and

“Women have rights, too!” There was one answer where someone said, “Women shouldhave the right to play any sport. On the other hand, with all of the research coming outabout how brutal and dangerous football is on the brain, maybe women are smart forstaying away from a sport that strikes me as barbaric.”Interpreting Results My original prediction was that there will be some people voting for no, mostpeople voting for women to be able to play football. The results were similar to myprediction. I had expected some of the things, but some were different. I never thought ofthe fact that women may just be smarter. There is a lot of discussion about how footballcauses severe brain damage. As one response to my survey said, “Woman may just besmart to stay away.” That person could be onto something. I did some research and Ifound three articles about how football does cause serious brain damage. According to Ken Belson’s (2014) New York Times article, “The National FootballLeague, which for years had evidence that its players had a high rate of serious braindamage, has stated in federal court documents that it expects almost a third of all retiredplayers to have long-term cognitive problems and that the conditions are likely to emergeat ‘notably younger ages’ than in the general population.” A PBS Frontline article by Jason Breslow (2014), reports similar significantprevalence of brain disease in deceased former NFL players. He writes that the nation’slargest brain bank found that 76 of 79 former NFL players it examined had evidence ofdegenerative brain disease. A third article, by the Kansas City Star and adapted by Newsela staff (2014) notesthat almost 1,500 high school football players in the state of Missouri alone hadconcussion during the 2012 school year. These articles are all talking about current and retired players from the NFL andother football leagues. They show that brain disease and concussions are occurring atalarming rates. So maybe women are smart to not play football. After reflecting on this, Iconclude that woman should have the rights to play football, but only if they want to riskgetting brain diseases, concussions, and possibly death. This is confusing, but I am sayingwoman can play football if they want to. I would do something differently if I were to do this survey again. One of thethings would be to add more questions to my survey. There was one question that I asked.It was simply “Do you think women should play football?” and then a side questionasking “Why you think that?” If I did this survey again I would add more questions like,“Do you think it’s smart for woman to not play football?” or “Do you agree with the TitleIX law and other things saying women have rights?” This started new questions and withthe information I got I have a couple more questions to ask. I wonder about the future offootball. Will people stop playing because doctors say that it is not safe? Do peoplethink that football should stop or change? Or do people want football players to keepplaying to amuse them?

New Directions If I were to do other surveys I would have one that was like, “Do you think menshould still play football? Do you agree that football is unsafe?” and other questions thatsurround football safety. I would love to learn more about how people feel about footballsafety and truly learn why they think it is even a good sport.ReferencesBelson, K. (2014, September 12). Brain Trauma to Affect One in Three Players, N.F.L.Agrees. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/sports/football/actuarial-reports-in-nfl-concussion-deal-are-released.htmlBreslow, J. (2014, September 3). 76 of 79 deceased NFL players found to have braindisease. Frontline. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sports/concussion-watch/76-of-79-deceased-nfl-players-found-to-have-brain-disease/Newsela and Kansas City Star. (2014, November 5). Concussions can be very dangerousfor high school football players. Newsela. https://newsela.com/articles/concussion-kids/id/5774/Favorite Book SeriesBy FrannyTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction My survey question was “What is your favorite book series?” It originated becauseI love to read, and I wanted to see what others liked to read too. I thought that I would geta good amount of results. I did get good results. Some were not what I was expecting, butI still think through doing my survey I found out about lots of great things. I hit a fewbumps in the road, but that was okay, because I wasn’t expecting to have a perfectsurvey. I think that by doing my survey I learned new things and got a feel of otherpeople’s opinions. I wouldn’t say that I got the results I wanted because I wasn’texpecting any certain thing. I had six questions in my survey. Most of the questions wereabout a favorite book or book series. The purpose of my survey was to find out aboutwhat other people think about books in series and I think that I got some good results.Procedure I started doing my survey by writing ten questions, and then picking my best three.Then, I came up with a 30 second pitch for each of my questions, which I practiced, andthen met with a small group to get feedback. After I picked my final question, I answered

four questions, like “Why are you interested in this question?” and “Who will benefitfrom your survey and findings?” When I had finished with those, I created my surveyusing surveymonkey.com. I used the builder menu to create my survey, and put in mainquestions and side questions. Once we all finished, we took each other’s surveys on theblog. Then we looked at our results, and copied and pasted them into our Google Doc.Next we analyzed the data by reading through our results, reading through again andtaking small notes, and reading through it again and highlighting themes. After that, wereflected on the five questions: “What did you find out by doing your survey?” “How dothe results compare with your original prediction?” “What surprises did you have?”“What problems did you have with collecting data?” and “If you were to do this surveyagain, what would you do differently?” Next, we edited those five questions and went onto writing an article about how we did our survey. It had five parts: introduction,procedure, results, interpreting results, and new directions. Those articles would bepublished in our blog zine, Neeble.Results When collecting my survey results, I found out that most people have differentbook interests, and that some people answered the questions wrong. For instance, for the“how have your reading interests changes over the years?” question, some people thoughtit said, “Have your reading interests changed over the years?” and answered things like“No” and “Yes” and“Definitely!” Also,for the “Why wasyour favoritebook/series yourfavorite?” and “Is itstill your favoritebook?” questions,some people hadanswers like “yes”and “no” where theydidn’t answer all thequestions. For the question “What was your favorite book series in a lower grade?”, a couplepeople each answered Harry Potter, Dear Dumb Diary and Nancy Drew. Those were thethemes that emerged while I was collecting my data on that question. Two themes emerged while I was collecting my data on the question, “How haveyour reading interests changed over the years?” Eleven people answered the questionwith an answer that was helpful to me. One theme that emerged was “I am reading biggerbooks now.” Another theme was “I like another genre better now.”

I had several problems while collecting my survey data. My survey question,“What is your favorite book series?” was a problem for me because that question wasn’ta question that I could find lots of articles about and that I could collect a lot of goodsurvey data on. That was a problem since I should be able to collect a lot of data on mysurvey topic. I hope that there are more credible resources that I can get more data from. Ithink that if my survey question “How have your reading interests changed over theyears?” was more clear, than I would have gotten a better amount of results than I didwhen I did my survey. Most people answered The Hunger Games for the first question, “What is yourfavorite book series?” so that was the most popular book series that I saw in my results.The next most popular was Harry Potter, and then Percy Jackson and the Olympians atthe least. I collected 14 “other” responses, including a couple people that said, “I don’thave one.” I really think that my results were the most important part of my survey. I thinkthat because the results are what I learned by doing my survey.Interpreting Results Some of the results were very similar to my original prediction. I got lots of reallygreat results and I think that that was what I was hoping for. I think that some of myresults were not what I was expecting. One of my questions: “How have your readinginterests changed over the years?” was a good question, but I think that if I had put it so itmakes better sense, then kids would have not interpreted it like “Have your readinginterests changed over the years?” and put answers like “no” and “yes”. I was notexpecting that. Another surprise I had when collecting data was the fact that I couldn’tcollect much data and highlight many themes, and that was a surprise to me. If I was to do this survey again, I would have my questions be more clear so otherswould answer them more correctly, and I would make sure that my survey was about abetter topic that I could collect more data on. I would also think that if I had made myspecific question: “How have your reading interests changed over the years?” more clear,than I would have gotten more responses. Some people just didn’t respond, so I wouldhave liked to see what they would have thought. I wish that everyone would haveresponded, because then I would have been able to get a better amount of results. I thinkthat if I had made it on a different topic than I would have collected more data. Somepeople responded the way I didn’t think they would, so I think that I would make myquestions go into more depth.New Directions I think that for a new project I might interview Mrs. Zimmerman, a readingteacher at our school, about why teachers push kids so much to read books in series, and I

think that interviewing other classrooms on the same topic might be fun also. I’m not sureabout other surveys coming off of this one, because my topic wasn’t a topic that I think Icould carry very far. I might look in books about series and why kids really like to readthem. I think that might be fun. I don’t know about lots of other projects coming off ofthis one, but if there are, I think that that could be a cool thing to explore. I am curious tosee what other projects I could do coming off of this one. I think I could learn lots moreon this topic about books and series. I hope that if I do find other projects, I can exploreother topics and questions.



TechnologyBy AshleyTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction The purpose of my survey was I wanted to see how technology affects others intheir daily life. For example, if they didn’t have technology would they be doingsomething better for the world or doing nothing? Would they be exercising? How dopeople view technology? I was interested in whether people thought technology affectedeverybody in a way that was good or not so good. Hopefully scientists will benefit frommy survey.Procedure My survey all started with brainstorming questions. We needed ten questions, thenwe would chose our top three. You would get in a small group and give thirty secondpitches about your top three questions. You needed to get feedback from your smallgroup to help you choose your question. Next we needed to write an introduction. It allstarted with answering four questions: What is your final question? Why are youinterested in this question? Why should others learn about your finding? Who will benefitfrom your question? The next thing I needed to do was create my survey. First you need to sign intoSurvey Monkey. Then I used the menu builder to make it. For the beginning you need tocopy and paste your intro onto Survey Monkey. Then you need to put in your mainquestion and your side questions. The second thing we did with Survey Monkey was takeother people’s surveys on surveymonkey.com We looked at our results including bargraphs. After that we copied and pasted everything on to our Google Docs. To analyze your data we read through results, read through our results again andtook small notes on data, read through them again and highlighted important words andphrases. Themes emerged. We reflected on five questions. These five questions becameour articles. What did you find throughout the survey? How do the results compare toyour original production? What surprises did you have? What problems did you havewhile collecting data? If you were to do this survey again what would you do differently?The final step is the most fun, tell others! Our an articles were written to include a title,introduction, procedure, results, interpreting results, and last, but not least, newdirections. Then of course we will post it on our blog in Neeble!Results Through my survey, I found out a lot about how people view technology. My firstquestion was, “What would you be doing if there wasn’t any technology?” I got 29responses. Most of the responses were about exercising or about reading and writing. Forexample, seven people wrote something about reading or writing. One person wrote that

they would play sports if there wasn’t technology. Six people wrote comments that fit asecond category about doing stuff outside or with their brain. For example, one personwrote, “I would be playing outside with my dog.” Another wrote, “I would be playingbasketball.” One even wrote, “Using a Rubik’s cube.” A couple of people wrote thingsthat were not helpful. In my survey I have learned that technology can be bad, butsometimes good. From my second question I said, “Do you prefer paper books or electronicbooks?” 88.89% preferred paper, and the other 11.11% said electronic books. I followedthe question up with a “why” question. Only one person out of 29 responses said a notvery helpful comment. They said, “I like electronics.” My third question was, “Do you want technology to grow or grow less?” 48.31%wanted technology to grow. The other 58.62% wanted it to grow less. Then I followed itup with a “why”question. Most of theresults from thatquestion didn’t statetheir answer. Forexample, “I choose itbecause technologymakes most of what wehave and if we havemore of it we can fulfillour dream of thingshovering.” I am not surewhat they mean. My last question was, “How much technology do you use in a day?” None 0.00%,0-15 minutes 10.34%, 15-30 minutes 31.03%, 30-60 minutes or more 58.62%. Thereason I chose to ask that question was because I wanted to see how it affected their dailylife. Some problems that I had while I was collecting my data was when I asked “why”following off a question, some people didn’t state their answer very well. For anexample, I asked, “Why do you prefer the answer from question two?” which was“Would you prefer paper books or electronic books?” One person said, “I likeelectronics.” That’s probably the only problem that I had.Interpreting Results Throughout my survey I found a lot of similar comments in my first question,“What would you be doing without technology?” For example, “I would be readingbooks and writing. One question that was different was, “I would be hanging out with myfriends.” My prediction was different from the results. I thought that most people wouldsay something like sleeping, but only one person said that. In other words, my surveyturned out pretty good.

I found from my survey that life would be amazing if technology wasn’t reallyaround. Most people would be doing healthy things like hiking or reading. The thing thatwas better was that more people said they would exercise more if technology wasn’taround. If I were to do this survey again, one change that I would make would be toinclude the words “Please be specific!” when I ask why for a follow up question. Theother changes that I would make would be to put more “other” questions, just to see whatthey are thinking.New Directions If I were to do other surveys I would want to make my questions moreunderstandable. I would want to learn more about what others think. I would askquestions about themselves like “What’s your favorite color?” I would like to learn abouthow technology can be used for good things.What is Your Favorite Computer Company?By SimonTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction My question is “what is your favorite computer company?” I am interested in thisbecause I like technology and I like computers, and I would like to know which is best.People should learn this because if they wanted a computer they would know which tobuy. They would also know the differences and what the majority of the people likes. likethat. Anyone who was interested in buying a computer or any piece of technology madeby the companies listed will benefit from my survey. Anyone who is interested intechnology and computers, who wants to know which one is preferable will also benefitfrom this. The purpose of this survey was to see what people’s favorite computercompany is. I predicted that most people like Apple best, and I was correct.Procedure When starting this project we first thought of ideas for our survey. We came upwith ten and then chose the best three. We then created 30 second pitches, which werehearsed and then pitched in groups of four people. We got feedback and picked the bestof the three. Next we wrote a short introduction, which answered four questions. The questionswere: What is your final question? Why are you interested in this question? Who willbenefit from your findings? and Why should others learn about your findings?

Then we created our survey. We used surveymonkey.com to create our surveys.We first copied and pasted our introduction at the beginning of the survey. Then we useda builder menu to create main questions and side questions. After that we took turns filling out each others surveys and then we collected thefeedback we got from others. The results were shown to us in bar graphs. Then we copiedand pasted the answers into a Google Doc and then looked for themes the answersshowed. We also took small notes on the questions to look for themes. We read again andhighlighted important words and phrases. Next we answered five questions that Mr. Mark gave us. The questions were: Howdo the results compare with your original prediction? What was similar? What wasdifferent? What did you find out by doing your survey? What surprises did you have?What problems did you have with collecting data? If you were to do this survey again,what would you do differently? Then we wrote this essay about the project. We pasted the introduction to the frontand added the paragraphs on procedure, results, interpreting results, and new directions.Results By doing my survey, I found out that most people liked Apple or Chromebook.Most people said that Apple was cool or awesome and stuff like that, and so I did notreally get much information about why they chose that answer. I thought that the personwho answered the surveys age would change their input but that was not true. Almosteverybody who answered said that they would buy their next computer from the samecompany. My firstquestion was “Whatkind of computerdo you currentlyuse?” 62.96% of thepeople thatanswered mysurvey said thatthey used Apple.My third questionwas “What is yourfavorite computercompany?” 70.37%of the people said that they liked Apple better and Samsung, Dell, HP, and Chromebookwere fairly small numbers. My second question was “Would you buy a computer fromthis company again?” 88% said that they would buy from this company again. My thirdquestion was “What is your favorite computer company?” 69% said Apple, which waspredictable. I now know that most of our class and all of the adults I asked to take thissurvey like Apple products.

I found four themes in the answers to my question, “Why is this your favorite” Igot 26 responses to that question. They were, “The computer works well,” “The design isgood,” “I know how to use it,” and “It looks cool.” Most of the themes revolved aroundApple, so I think that themajority of the people enjoyApple the most. For answersrevolving around “It workswell” people wrote things like,“They make good computersand other tech”, “Apple is myfavorite company because it isone of the fastest computers”,and “It works pretty well”. For“The design is good” I gotanswers like “Because of itsgreat user interface andwonderful graphics” and“design and easy to use”. For“I know how to use it” I got “Itis easy to use and I know a lot about them “and “because I know how to use it”. For “Itlooks cool” I got answers like” because it looks awesome and “I like the way it looks”.My other question was “If you listed “other” what is your favorite” but that only got 5serious answers. Some of the other answers there were Samsung, Microsoft, and ASUS.Interpreting Results I thought people would answer more seriously. I only got eight serious answers,but I predicted that most people would like Apple and a lot of them did answer that. I gotsome smaller companies like ASUS. Some of the non-serious answers were “I dunno”and “it is my favorite because it is”. I think that most of the people that said Chromebookdid not actually own one just used one here at school. I wish I had said something aboutthat so that I could have understood what they were answering better. I would think thatpeople would not put answers like “I dunno” and such but otherwise no surprises. One ofmy problems was that a lot of the people answering seriously were adults. That was aproblem because I also wanted to get the kids input not just adults. I got a lot of answerslike “it is cool” and “it is my favorite because it is”. I had some other small problems butthat was it.New Directions I think that a survey that could come off of this one is “What is your favoritecomputer software company?” or something else about computers. I would also beinterested to learn what people’s favorite tablet or phone is. I think that that would helpme a lot in my understanding of what computer companies people like.

Which Extinct Animal Do You Want ToBring Back?By TateTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction My survey question was, “Which extinct animal do you want to bring back?” Thereason I wanted to particularly do this survey is because I wanted to try to reintroducethese long-forgotten animals back to people, see their opinions about cloning fordecimated species, and just to flat-out see what they like best! The purpose of my surveywas to reintroduce extinct animals back to people and to learn their opinions on whatextinct species they’d want to bring back and why.Procedure I incorporated many ideas into the many steps of my survey project. I started mysurvey by beginning to think of topics. Once I chose my topic, I started to think that if Iput dinosaurs in it as all the options, it would look like a bored ambitious five-year-oldscrounged together some books, his friend’s favorite dinos and then slapped it on the web(but this is all besides the point). I looked into the deep dark time-consuming chasm thatis the internet and found some pretty interesting data. For example, did you know that themegalodon was three times the size of the tallest man in the world? The one I had fromthe very start was the dodo bird. I mainly looked at the New York Times about a topiccalled “The mammoth cometh” online. “The mammoth cometh” states a handful of well-known extinct species and tells how two men named Stewart Brand and Ben Novak andtheir opinions on animal extinction and talks about solutions to preserve endangeredanimals and to do the impossible, resurrecting an extinct species. When I startedreflecting on the five questions, it was a little confusing, but then after I finished the firstquestion, it just started to get increasingly easy over time.Results My main survey question was, “Which extinct animal do you want to bring back?”Four people chose the labrador duck (17.39 percent), four people also chose themegalodon (17.39 percent), 15 people chose the dodo (65.22 percent), and two peopleskipped the question. On a scale of one to ten on how hard is was to count the results, itwould be a 9-10. On 10 different occasions on answers for the why questions about dodobirds people just said they liked them, which doesn’t really give me an answer. They justgave me the way they feel about them, not really giving any proof behind it. Most of thepeople who did take the survey seriously were the people who voted for the labradorduck and the megalodon. Very few people who chose dodos as their answer put anythingabout acclimating to the environment, concerns, and put in the time to think about the

actual question. This ordeal made it difficult to determine the results of the survey. Theproblem was that amajority of the peoplewho took my survey did itin more of a jokingmanner, which is the exactopposite of how I wantedfor it to turn out. I wonderif I could have made astronger and more indepth question to givepeople a little bit moresense of seriousness andcontext for what I waslooking for in a response.Interpreting Results My prediction was that some people would definitely choose the dodo, but the biaswas astounding! 17.39 percent for the megalodon and the labrador duck, versus aGIGANTIC 65.22 percent for the dodo. I had a number of surprises. Some people actually voted for the megalodon! Thissurprised me because it would seem that bringing back a shark the size of four schoolbuses would be a reason beyond me. Another surprise was this very advanced answer.Respondent #21 wrote, “No. Bringing an animal back from extinction raises some seriousbioethics concerns that must be addressed first. What would happen to existing species,say in water, if a megalodon returned? I reckon that this would lead to extinctions anddisruptions of a different sort. I think it is dangerous for humans to play God in this way.Humans should put energy into preserving the species that still exist instead.” I wouldlike to know who wrote this because I wasn’t expecting such an advanced answer. Iwould like to talk more with that person. If I did this project again, this is what I would do differently: I would add moreoptions. With my original survey, two out of the three options were completely unknownto some respondents. So I would probably add more options and quite a bit more datareferring to the options, so the respondents would know a little more about what they’repicking.New Directions My new directions would be to learn more about biology, environmental debatesand other things relating to environmental studies. I am starting to have second thoughtsabout bringing species back from extinction. I hadn’t thought too much about the causeand effect situation, like how much of a disruption it would be if a megalodon came back.

Now vs. Then: What Do They Do in TheirFree Time?By AbbeyTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction My first question for my survey was “Kids: What do you do in your free time?” Ichose this question because all you ever hear is adults saying that kid are lazy nowadaysbecause all they ever do is sit on the couch, play on technology, or watch TV. Theyalways assume that kids never go outside. They say that kids don’t get outside like theyused to. I heard one of my friend’s parents say “You can’t bring your phone because thatis all you ever do is play on your phone, when we were kids we would play outside andwe never played on technology!” I don’t think that is true. I think they did play on theirtechnology and us kids now do get outside, and I want to prove that. For my second question I asked “Adults: What did you do in your free time whenyou were a kid?” Their answers for this survey were much more specific. Most answerswent a little something this “When I was a kid I played sports outside, did homework,and played with my friends. My friends and I mostly played outside. But I did play on mygame system a lot too. Probably not as much as kids do now, but we did a lot.” By myresults I think kids back then were on technology a lot but not as much as kids now.Procedure The first thing I did was brainstorm a question for the survey. After that I chosemy best three question and kid to kid to kid to kid to kid conferenced (conferenced with abunch of kids). Together we chose my best question. After the conference I had to writesome reasons of why my question is important and who will benefit of my findings.When I finished writing that I went on Surveymonkey.com and started my survey. It wasvery easily really, all I did was copied the reasons why I should do this question thenpasted them into survey monkey to make it my introduction. Then I went through it andrevised it. When I finished revising it I put both of my questions in for my survey. When everyone was done with their survey Mr. Mark put our surveys on the blog,and we started taking each other’s surveys. The next day we all read our answers andtook small notes on them. Then I created a coding system and put some answers incategories like sports, playing outside, video games, and other. (The other is board gamesand mostly Rubik’s cubes.) After analyzing my data, I answered these five questions,What did you find out?, How do the results compare with your original prediction? Whatwas similar? What was different?, What problems did you have with collecting data?, Ifyou were to do this survey again, what would you differently?, and What surprises didyou have? Lastly I wrote this article! When I am finished with this I will kid to kidconference and revise with them.

Results From doing my survey, I learned about what kids do in their free time and whatadults did in their free time when they were kids. My first question was, “Kids: What doyou do in your free time?”I found out that many kids do get outside a lot in their freetime, but they are on their technology a little more. In fact 14 out of 23 responses saidthey play on technology in their free time. Most of the responses said that they playoutside then play on their technology or watch TV. One person wrote, “What I do in myfree time is play basketball and play on my tablet.” Some people wrote that they go totheir friend’s house, but they don’t say what they do there. Even one person said “play.”It’s impossible to know what this means! My second question was, “Adults: What did you do in your free time when youwere a kid?” The responses I got for that one were a lot more specific for example, oneanswer was “When I was a kid I would go to my friend’s Nick and Andy’s house and wewould play in their backyard and we would play kick the can.” I also found that adultsdid play video games and watch TV, not as much as now, but a fair amount. Problems I had collecting data was people were not being specific enough. I hadmany people say “play games” or “go outside.” but they never said what they did outsideor they don’t say what games they played. You never know, they could have played ontheir technology outside, or they could have played games on their iPad.Interpreting Results I thought that kids now and back then would play on technology and go outside. Ithought that people back then would not watch as much TV or play on their technologyas much as they did. The results I got were very surprising. Most kids do play video games or play ontheir tablets, but they also get outside a lot more than you would think. Adults also usedto play on Nintendo games, but they mostly played outside a lot too. If I were to do this survey again I would say in my question to be specific. I wouldsay this because most kids said they would play, like I said many times I don’t knowwhat play means. You could be playing a board game, playing outside, or they could beplaying a video game.New Directions I would like to learn more about what adults did in their free time when they werekids. I would like to learn more about this because I already know what kids do nowbecause, well, I am a kid and all my friends are kids so I already know what kids do, but Idon’t know too much about what adults did when they were kids. I think many different surveys could come off of this one. I would probably makea survey just asking what adults did in their free time when they were kids. I would dothis because like I said, I would like to know more about what they did.

Does God Exist?By ConnorTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction The purpose of my survey was to discover whether god is real or not. I wasfascinated by the question “Does God exist?” because it explains a lot. It would explainand end the conflict between science and religion, religion vs. religion. It would help endworld conflicts, lots of prejudices, and enlighten us.Procedure What I did first was create the survey. Then I collected data. Then, after analyzingresults (highlighting themes), I looked up atheist & religious articles which I added intothe equation. Once I reached a conclusion, I typed up a rough draft for this. After myeditor (not legally) revised it & advised me, I wrote the final copy in which you arereading.Results I found out that a lot of people believe in God but they gave no substantialevidence of his existence. I found it hard to believe them. The atheists didn’t giveevidence as well. I’m still agnostic. I was surprised that so many people believe in god. Itwas not in my prediction. I speculate that I could have been more open minded. Also, theatheists gave a subjective argument. It surprised me. 14 people believe in god(s), 4 saidthey didn’t, and 9 clicked “I don’t know.” An answer I got for “Why?” was for someonewho believed in god “religious” and for an atheist “god does not exist.”Interpreting Results I am still unsure with the data because it was not in my original prediction. Thedata seems to go in both directions. My original prediction was that there were going tobe more atheists & agnostics. I was wrong. I don’t agree with anyone except theagnostics. I had problems getting people to specify and I had problems with gettinghelpful responses. It seemed like the atheists had an attitude and the faithful were unclear.I am dismayed by the results. Further studies are needed. If someone asked, “If you were to do this survey again, what would you dodifferently?” I would respond, “I would have been more specific when I asked, “Why doyou believe that?” I wish I had been! Then my survey would have gone better. Oh well,live and learn. The overall result is that I’m still agnostic.

Who is Your Favorite YouTuber?By AlexTeam 20Lewis Elementary SchoolIntroduction I wanted to know who watches YouTube or does not. I don't watch YouTube, but Iwanted to know everyone’s favorite YouTuber so I’ll maybe watch them all one day. Iwouldn’t watch all at once and not all their videos at once because I don't want to watchall the videos and sit in front of a screen all day.Procedure I started out just picking a random theme for the survey. I conferenced and wrotethe survey. I then collected data and then two days later I analyzed the data and foundsome people skipped the questions. After I got the information from everyone, I lookedup the YouTubers on YouTube. 22 people answered my question, “What kind of videodo they make?” Seven people skipped my question “Why?” I then reflected on the fivequestions and wrote this article, which will be published in Neeble. Soon lots of peoplewill read this article.Results A lot of people watch YouTube. Most people watch YouTube but not all the sameYouTubers. One reason I wanted to do this survey is because I wanted to see whowatches YouTube and who does not. No one did not watch YouTube. Some people did not answer some of thequestions. Eight people are not in room 20 and did my survey.Interpreting Results My prediction was that less people watch YouTube and a few people havefavorites, not 30 people (the whole class and others). I did not expect 30 people to watchYouTube at least once a year. Who knew that 30 people would watch YouTube. No onewho did my survey said that they did not watch YouTube ever. One surprise I had was that some people did not complete the survey. People did itand then came back later. If I were to do this survey again, I would ask more questions. I would ask for firstnames so I know who it is from. I forgot to ask if anyone has a YouTube account.New Directions A new survey could be about Minecraft or Terraria. Minecraft because I likeMinecraft and I’d get a lot of results. Terraria because Terraria is a popular game and it is