Lesson Five – Using Data
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and record different ways of using and presenting types of information compiled into a database using a range of graphs and charts.
The class can model how to structure and interpret graphs and charts to display the collected information about different volcanoes around the world such as the date of their last eruption and height in metres.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and record different ways of using and presenting types of information compiled into a database using a range of graphs and charts
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify questions that a set of data could answer about a specific topic, an example spreadsheet database to explore how to format and organise a spreadsheet to store data about volcanoes and a worksheet to present a set of data about volcanoes around the world using different graphs and charts.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore different ways of using and presenting information compiled into a database about volcanoes found around the world.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to explore how to use databases to store, organise and interrogate data about different volcanoes that can be found in locations and communities around the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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Ordering and Changing
Explore and record how to order three digit numbers by the place value of their digits and how the digits in a number change their numerical values when finding ten and one hundred more or less
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Changing Hundreds
Explore and record the matching number sums that are one hundred more and less than different three digit numbers to show changes to the place values of their numerical digits
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Digit Changes
Identify and record the matching number sums that are ten less than different three digit numbers by illustrating changes to the values of their hundreds, tens and ones digits
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Changing Numbers
Identify and record number sums that are ten more than different three digit numbers using abacus diagrams to model their changing values