Finding and Presenting Information

About this unit:

Introduce students to this great block-based programming language to create animations and games perfect for KS1. Write and debug algorithms, learn about repeating, and different triggers to create actions.

National Curriculum Links - Computing KS1

The content of this plan cover the following National Curriculum strands:

use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
recognise common uses of information technology beyond school
use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies

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Why this? What does it build on?

This unit covers safe and effective searching for information online, and then looks at how to present that information in different ways such as in graphs and charts. It builds on online safety messages in Year 1 unit Keeping safe and exploring technology and Year 2 unit Keep safe and create. It also builds on literacy skills such as reading and comprehension of non-fiction texts.

What comes next?

The safe searching content in this unit will be built upon in our Digital Literacy and online safety units for Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, and Year 6.

The IT content in this unit will be explored in more depth in Key Stage 2, where they will go into more depth about gathering, analysing and presenting data, how search engines really work, what makes computers work, and what the internet is in our units Databases, Searching the web, What is a computer? and Inside the internet.

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Unit Assessment Sheet

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Lessons

Lesson 1

Use and explore appropriate buttons, arrows, menus and hyperlinks to navigate teacher selected web sites.
Understand a website has a unique address and the need for precision when typing it.
Know what to do and who to tell if they see something inappropriate on a website.

Looking for facts

Lesson 2

Use and explore buttons, arrows, menus and hyperlinks to navigate a website.
Using keywords to safety search a specific resource for information.
Locate specific websites by typing a website address into the address bar.
Begin to evaluate web sites by giving opinions about preferred or most useful sites.
Know what to do and who to tell if they see something inappropriate on a website

Searching Sites

Lessons 3 & 4

Use simple graphing software to produce pictograms and other basic tables or graphs.
Use graphing software to enter data and change a graph type, e.g. pictogram to bar chart.
Interpret and draw conclusions from graphs, discuss information contained and answer simple questions.

Creating Graphs from Data

Lesson 5

Sort and classify a group of items by asking simple yes / no questions. This may take place away from the computer, e.g. a ‘Guess Who’ game.
Develop classification skills by carrying out sorting activities

Branching Databases

Lesson 6

Use a database program, where appropriate, to sort and identify items.
Use basic search tools in a prepared database to answer simple questions, e.g., how many children have brown hair?

Searching Databases

Suggested Software

2Count (From Purple Mash or the 2Simple Collection)
2Graph (From Purple Mash or the 2Simple Collection)
2Publish+ (From Purple Mash or the 2Simple Collection)
2Question (From Purple Mash or the 2Simple Collection)
2Investigate (From Purple Mash or the 2Simple Collection)

Full Computing Glossary

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Key computing vocabulary for this unit

Database - A database is an organised collection of data, generally stored and accessed electronically from a computer system.

Edit - To change, add or remove elements in a piece of work (usually to improve it).

Evaluation - Making judgements (a computational thinking concept)

Format (text) - Text formatting refers to the attributes of text other than the actual text itself. For example: bold, italics, underlining, colour, and size, are all formatting attributes of text.

Information – the meaning or interpretation given to a set of data by its users, or which results from data being processed.

Internet – the global collection of computer networks and their connections, all using shared protocols (TCP/IP) to communicate.

Network - A network consists of multiple devices that communicate with one another. It can be as small as two computers or as large as billions of devices. While a traditional network is comprised of desktop computers, modern networks may include laptops, tablets, smartphones, televisions, gaming consoles, smart appliances, and other electronics.

Online - using a digital device to visit a website or app that makes use of the internet.

Save - To store a piece of work in a computer’s memory so that it can be recalled at a later time.

Search – to identify data that satisfies one or more conditions, such as web pages containing supplied keywords, or files on a computer with certain properties.

Server - A server is a computer that serves up information to other computers on a network. Schools and many businesses will have a file server that pupils and employees can use to store and share files. A server can look like a regular desktop computer, or it can be much larger.

World Wide Web – a service provided by computers connected to the internet (web servers), in which pages of hypertext (web pages) are transmitted to users; the pages typically include links to other web pages and may be generated by programs automatically.