New Technologies

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New Social Studies

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New Health and Wellbeing

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New Expressive Arts

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Accordion page – DataFit – Developing Data & Physical Activity Literacy

Introduction The DataFit mission is to simultaneously increase data literacy and physical activity literacy.

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Weather Unit – PASCO Weather Sensor Guides

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Weather Unit – Lesson 4 – Measuring Temperature & Humidity

Introduction Weather forecasts and weather monitoring is one of the ways that data is used in out everyday life; although we may not quite realise it.

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Weather Unit – Lesson 3 – Using Sensors

Introduction Weather forecasts and weather monitoring is one of the ways that data is used in out everyday life; although we may not quite realise it.

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Weather Unit – Lesson 2 – Variables

Introduction Weather forecasts and weather monitoring is one of the ways that data is used in out everyday life; although we may not quite realise it.

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Weather Unit – Lesson 1 – Understanding Microclimates

Introduction Weather forecasts and weather monitoring is one of the ways that data is used in out everyday life; although we may not quite realise it.

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Make a Guess Who Game

Introduction Guess Who is a well known children's game that can help us to think about data, categorisation and pattern matching.

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Make a Sticky Note Dance

Introduction This a great example of how technical concepts like computational thinking can be developed through creative subjects such as dance.

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Make a Top Trumps Game

Introduction Top Trumps is well known game and activity for young people. Cards are available for popular films, computer games and books as well as educational purposes. Each card tends to include a name and character information.

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Make a Board Game

Introduction This resource encourages learners to consider the rules of a game.  This in turn helps them to develop a simplified understanding of algorithms and computational thinking.

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Settling In Activities

Introduction Use these short numeracy and data oriented activities to settle your primary learners while you take the register, sort out lunches and prepare for the day.

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Spotify Analysis

This activty is an example of how we can use one data set to find out lots of different information.

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Gapminder Cards – Data vs What We think

This card sorting game helps us to highlight how we use data all the time to make decisions. It works best with a small group children or a family.

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Data Sweets

This activty is a simple way of introducing data analysis and simple visualisation to children. This activty can be done with items commonly available at home with an optional extension to a computer and internet access.

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