Section 6

Year 3 / 4 Project

The tasks involving Year 3 / 4 children started off in a Science lesson.  The science topic was about Healthy Food and following a class discussion, the children were asked to choose from a selection of different foods listed.  They were asked to choose just one that they thought  might enjoy eating and another that they would not.  Children then took turns on the computer using “First Workshop” to input their own data, every child was given an opportunity to use the computer. 

The collected data was then made into a table. 

Each child took turns on the computer again to print out a copy of the table.  The children took away their table and were asked to find and highlight their own record on the table.  After a short demonstration by the teacher showing the children how to produce graphs of their table, children were then given the opportunity to create and print their own graphs.

I.C.T. Activity was ongoing throughout the lesson, children not on the computer were completing other science tasks related to the lesson.

The information gathered by the children from the computer was then used to draw  some conclusions.

“What food do we like best?”

“Do we eat healthy food in our class?”

Children were asked the following week to present there investigation in their Science books.

Year 4 /5 Project

The Year 4/5 class were asked to investigate a rather tongue-in-cheek activity purely to capture the interest of the children and demonstrate to staff  the process involved in Handling Information.

First a group of children were selected to carry out the investigation, they were asked to find out whether children that like “The Spice Girls” wear

white socks.  The children were amused by this investigation, but it also made them very enthusiastic!

The group made a list of questions to ask the other children. The class teacher wrote them on the blackboard and gave out pieces of paper for the children to answer their questions.  They were also told not to look at their socks until they had answered the first question.

Each child then came to the computer in turn to input their data using “First Workshop”

The group of children, supported by the teacher, then produced a table and graphs of the information.  

Table of results collected from children

Graph showing the most popular pop group in our class

The children sorted the records into favourite groups.  They then searched the records for “Spice Girls” and looked at each record to determine how many also contained white socks.  From this, the group of children were able to draw a conclusion.

Searched records

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