Skill: Data
Data handling: Comparison cards databases (S3 unit for S4)
Using the theme of the popular game, Top Trumps, to understand what a database is by learning the meanings of records, fields and data. Further exploration will lead to the development of the ideas of sorting and filtering
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Lesson 1: Records, fields and data
Lesson 2: Race against the computer
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Lesson 1: Zoo data
Introducing the term 'data' through an animal-themed activity that involves identifying the number of animals at a zoo and developing visual ways to represent the numbers.
Lesson 2: Picture data
Using online software to represent categorical data about zoo animals; creating a pictogram.
Lesson 3: Our favourite places
Completing a class survey on favourite places, collecting and recording data using computers.
Lesson 4: Presenting data
Using digital media to present whole class data on favourite places.
Unit 4: Data detectives
Learning what categorical data is and the different ways that it can be represented, learners develop an understanding of why data is useful and how it can be collected and presented.
Unit outcomes
Learners who are secure will be able to:
- Represent data in different ways and answer questions.
- Navigate to Sketchpad using a computer.
- Use a computing device to record data.
- Collect data for a clear purpose.
- Use a device to present categorical data.
- Select an appropriate presentation format and explain their choice.
- Read data accurately from a chart to draw simple comparisons.
- Explain how presenting data helps them understand it.
- Classify questions correctly as statistical and non-statistical.
- Create one statistical and one non-statistical question.
- Give an example of how statistical data could help solve a problem.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 3: Block coding
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Zoo data
Lesson 2: Animal pictograms
Lesson 3: Our favourite places
Lesson 4: Presenting data
Lesson 5: Choosing the right question
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Learning objectives
Cambridge Primary Computing (0059)
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Knowledge organiser – Computing S2: Data detectives
Aimed at learners, a single page document that gives key facts and definitions from the Data detectives unit.
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Vocabulary display – S2: Data detectives
A display version of the unit vocabulary
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Unit 5: Introduction to networks
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