Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify whether someone can use a book or database to answer a question about the weather and a set of cards to practise using a non-fiction book or a prepared database to find answers to key questions about what is happening in the weather.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to compare different ways of storing and retrieving information about the weather that has been listed using both written texts and computer files.

This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to explore and record how to use computer databases to store, organise and interrogate data and information about what is happening in the weather. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.