We then scored our surveys when they were returned. Next, we analyzed our data, rejected or accepted our hypothesis, and wrote our summary and conclusion. Finally, we applied our findings to the world outside the classroom. Seventy-five students answered our questionnaire from Australia, Denmark, Louisiana, Minnesota, and North Carolina. A majority of the students knew that the USA has the highest peace-time gun related death rate in the world.
Students are very knowledgeable about gun control issues.
They also know how incredibly deadly the wide-spread use of guns in the USA has become. The majority of the students that answered our questionnaire thought that the USA should have more gun control laws. Therefore we accepted our hypothesis which stated that the majority of the students would want more gun control laws. My hypothesis states that the majority of the responses to the factual questions on my questionnaire about unemployment will be incorrect. I think this because the unemployment rates are hard to imagine and detailed facts about unemployment are not taught yet at this grade level.