ICT at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 5)
Unit 5B: Analysing data and asking questions: using complex searches
Section 1: SETTING THE SCENE
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- Show the children a prepared database, eg properties of materials or planets in the solar system. Ask them to look carefully at how the data is organised. Remind them of how to carry out simple searches using '=' and sorting on one field. Discuss questions which require other types of searches, eg which planets have moons?
- Discuss with the class the problems that might arise when searching a vast store of information such as the World Wide Web, and the need for focused searches.
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All activities in this unit provide opportunities to teach the use of search engines on the Internet. If Internet access is available it is more likely to lead to surprising results because of its lack of structure. Comparisons can be made between searching a CD-ROM, the Internet and printed sources in terms of:
- time taken;
- amount of information found;
- usefulness and reliability.
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