Lesson One – Card Database

This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and model how to use a manual method of recording facts and information about different animals that live wild in habitats around the world.
The class can research and record facts about a type of animal on an individual database record card to show some of their unique characteristics.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and model how to use a manual method of recording facts and information about different animals that live wild in habitats around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and explain how to record facts and information about different animals and a template to select and record a set of data and information about a type of animal that lives wild in the world.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use a manual method of recording information about different animals in the world.
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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