Lesson Two – Checking Data
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify, describe and model how to amend and correct pieces of information in a prepared database about data related to volcanoes found around the world.
The class can suggest a range of different problems that might occur if data had been entered incorrectly into a database such as the wrong format including text instead of digits.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and model how to amend and correct pieces of information in a prepared database about data related to volcanoes found around the world
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify errors and omissions in different sets of data, an example spreadsheet database to help the children investigate how to correct errors and omissions in a set of data and a worksheet to prepare and check a spreadsheet database for errors and omissions about volcanoes found around the world.
The interactive presentation gets the children to identify, describe and model how to amend and correct pieces of information in a prepared database about data related to 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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