Skill: Data definition
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
Lesson 5: Planning a holiday
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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 5: Choosing the right question
Learning that some questions collect statistical data, while others give opinions that cannot be counted. Learners look at examples, sort questions and create their own questions, understanding how different questions can lead to different types of information.
