Lesson Five – Animal Questions

This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, describe and compare different ways of storing and retrieving facts and information about a range of wild animals using books and computers.
The class can practise using a prepared database to search for answers to key questions about some of the different animals that live wild in habitats around the world.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and compare different ways of storing and retrieving facts and information about a range of wild animals using books and computers
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe different ways of answering key questions about wild animals and a set of cards to practise using a database to find information to answer key questions about different animals that live wild in the world.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to compare different ways of storing and retrieving information using books and computers.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to explore how to use a computer database to store, organise and interrogate data and information about different animals that live wild in 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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