Activities

A fun activity to demonstrate random sample and population would be to open several bags of colored candies. In my psychology class, we did this with m and m’s and the population (N) would be each color that everyone has, while the random sample (n) would be just what came out of one single package. It is a very fun activity, plus we got to eat the candy afterwards. Just be sure to put the candy on a tissue or napkin rather than a dirty desk!