How can you know if the spoon works?

Format: 2-3 Peoples' outcomes should be analyzed in their original groups

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Language/s: 3-6 Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

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Resource Link: View the Lesson

Target Audience: 3-3 Are the treatments practical in your setting?

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Short Description:

Short, small group exercise on how to design a fair comparison using the "claim" that a spoon helps retain the bubbles in champagne.

Key Concepts addressed:

• Choices: making informed choices
• Greek
• 1-1 Treatments can harm
• 1-10 Hope may lead to unrealistic expectations
• 1-11 Explanations about how treatments work can be wrong

Details

Short, small group exercise on how to design a fair comparison using the “claim” that a spoon helps retain the bubbles in champagne.

Exercise 1.  Students design a study; then

Exercise 2.  Look at a study someone else has done.

This takes about 20 minutes, is good fun, and introduces some key concepts of trials.