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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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 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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Introducing PPDAC At Early Level

Introduction This resource gives practioners ideas on how to introduce the PPDAC process to our youngest learners. It provides ideas and suggestions about how typical topics used in early level settings can be used to introduce data oriented questions and data collection to learners.

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Reading Graphs

Introduction These activities support learners in interpreting data in graphs. They will work through an online activity that uses the lion population of an area of Tanzania as a the context for learning about data modelling and different growth rates.

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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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DataFit – Activity, Trackers and Interpretations

DataFit is a series of lessons and resources designed around physical activity and devices. It is primarily aimed at second (P5-P7) and third stage (S1-S3) and consists of four lessons.

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Colourful Kits – Barefoot Computing – Example

RESOURCE OVERVIEW: The resources for these 2 x 60 min lessons are available from Barefoot Computing

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