Clovenstone Primary 5 Evaluate EISF Activities

We invited children from a P5 class of a local school to come the University yesterday to see some of the activities which we set up in the Mech Eng Crush Area.  It was a lively event and we learnt alot.  The kids were kind enough to fill in a few questionaires for us. 

Here are the results:

Fourteen children attend the event. Of those who gave us their gender 45% were male and 55% female.

They all (100%) thought the event was good.

Most (71%) thought the science was neither too easy or too hard, with 21% (3) thinking that it was too easy, and 7% (1) thinking it was too hard.

Most (57%) thought the language was neither too easy or too hard, with 14% (2) thinking it was too easy and 29% (4) thinking it was too hard.

Words used to describe the event were:

fun, cool, good
fun, cool, very good
fun, exciting
happy, exciting, fun
robot talking, exciting, fun
good, happy, exciting
interesting, happy
fun, zook, cream egg
fun, exciting, extrodinary
good, fun, exlant
cool fun exciting
robot talking, computer spiders running fast, cream eggs glue

The children enjoyed the activities, and most picked more then one (and sometimes all) of the activities as their favorites. The distribution of favorite activities is shown in Figure 1.

  Figure 1. Favorite Activities

Reasons for their choices were:

because it was good fun
doing the zook
because I liked everything about this
I enjoyed all of them
I liked talking robot because it told jokes
because they were fun
because they were brillant plus they wre all fun and splodge was my best one
I enjoyed these because they were fun
design them
I liked splodge because we got to use the pen and we got to write the first letter of our name
because it was very fun

The distribution of activities that they enjoyed the least is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2.  Least Favorite Activities

The reasons given were:

Mixing it up

they were too hard to understand
because I did not understand
because it was very yucky
I didn’t understand

Zooks

made me sike (sic)
because it was too hard
I liked It because it was kind of fun, but not as fun as mixing it up, splodge

Sensing with Light

they were too hard to understand
made me dizzy
because it hurt your eyes when you wear the glasses

Splodge

it was hard

Overall suggested improvements included:

more activities
more activities
have more science stuff
more time
having more things we can try
having more things we can try
more things for us to do
to have toy dolphins in the sensing of light
use glasses that don’t hurt

Other things they wanted us to know:

that its interesting