Activity Title: Investigating memory of boys and girls

About:

Students discuss their investigation into whether boys or girls have better short term memory.

Video 1: Investigation comparing boys' and girls' memory

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Student: Hello, my name's Matisse and I'm from a group called Memory Mania.

This is Manet, Josef and Scott.

We'll be talking to you today about how our group got started,

how we did our tests, our Wikispaces and our results.

How we got our test done is we got a bunch of five boys and

five girls at a time, we would test the girls first on a girls' test

and a boys' test, then we would change over for the same age pick girls

and they would do the girls' test and then they'd do the boys' test

and then we would get another group of boys doing the girls' test

and then they'd do the boys' test and same with the second group of boys.

This is our sheet that we gave them.

To do this test we gave each child this sheet of paper,

we then gave them one minute to remember as many things as they could.

We then flipped the sheet over and we gave them five minutes

to remember as many things as they could on that sheet.

Student: The results were when the boys did the

boy test they got a better result.

When they did another test but the girls' test they got

a bad result but not better than a boy test.

When the girls did their girl test they got better

but when they did the boy test they got worse.

But altogether the girls have a better memory than the boys by one point.

Student: I would probably choose a different age group instead because

we did year three's, I'd probably get a group of probably year sixes.

Notes:

This investigation challenges a few stereotypes.