Skill: Data collection
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 5: Planning a holiday
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Data handling: International Space Station
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Unit outcomes
Learners who are secure will be able to:
- Describe and explain how astronauts’ survival needs are met aboard the ISS.
- Identify and digitally draw items which fulfil basic human needs when aboard the ISS.
- Read the correct temperature on a thermometer.
- Design a display showing everything that needs to be monitored by sensors on the ISS.
- Create an algorithm that addresses all plants’ needs.
- Explain how space exploration can benefit life on Earth.
- Read data to identify whether a planet might be habitable.
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Homes in space
Lesson 2: Space bag
Lesson 3: Warmer, colder
Lesson 4: Experiments in space
Lesson 5: Goldilocks planets
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- Developing confidence
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- To understand
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