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Design your own fantasy team sports database

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Computational Thinking and Creativity Spreadsheets and Databases

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Objectives

Computing

  • Select, use and combine database software to design and create content that accomplishes given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information.
  • Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of ICT.
  • Evaluate and apply IT, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.

Maths

  • Complete, read and interpret information in tables.

Lesson Planning

You have been challenged to set up your own database of top footballer performers to help create your own fantasy football team.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To look at the form a database takes and identify its key purposes and create a database using 2Investigate Online or Softease software.
  • To identify key data fields for a database from scrutinising tables of information.

Children will:

  • Explore a sports database and identify how it differs from a spreadsheets.
  • Explore online data tables and suggest key data fields for a database based on this.
  • Create their own database using 2Investigate Online or Softease.

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

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