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ICT at key stage 3    (Year 8)

Unit 8: Public information systems

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Resources

Resources include:

  • automatic weather station or temperature sensors. Where available a weather satellite receiving station could be helpful, but can be replaced by internet access
  • internet access with a list of weather information sites and sites which present weather information for different audiences
  • data-handling software (spreadsheet and/or database with appropriate graphing facilities, eg to be able to plot bar and line graphs on the same graph and preferably to be able to plot more than one vertical axis scale)
  • presentation software, multimedia or web authoring software
  • access to samples of different approaches to presenting weather information, eg internet, TV, newspapers and teletext

Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. Activity 1
2. Activity 2
3. Activity 3
4. Activity 4
5. Activity 5
6. Activity 6
7. Activity 7