2. Develop your ability to gather and input data

4. Databases

5. What is this? 257 What does it mean?

6. Price of a new phone? Number of people with 100% attendance in this school? Number of days until Christmas? Number of cows on a farm? The height in centimetres of a tree house?

7. DATA is numbers and letters with no meaning

8. Name of Person Shoe Size Hair Colour Brown Red Black Blue White Grey Karl Jennifer Katie Steven Grace Joe 2 6 3 7 1 5

9. INFORMATION is data with meaning

10. Name of Person Shoe Size Hair Colour Brown Red Black Blue White Grey Karl Jennifer Katie Steven Grace Joe 2 6 3 7 1 5

11. Data Tables Fields

12. Name of Person Shoe Size Hair Colour Brown Red Black Blue White Grey Karl Jennifer Katie Steven Grace Joe 2 6 3 7 1 5

13. Data Tables Records Fields

14. Name of Person Shoe Size Hair Colour Brown Red Black Blue White Grey Karl Jennifer Katie Steven Grace Joe 2 6 3 7 1 5 1 2 3 4 5 6

15. Is it a field or a record? Name of Person Shoe Size Hair Colour Brown Red Black Blue White Grey Karl Jennifer Katie Steven Grace Joe 2 6 3 7 1 5 1 2 3 4 5 6

16. Data Tables Records Fields Data has meaning Information

17. Databases Microsoft Access

18. Task 1 Collect data from your classmates. This data will later be put into a database.

19. In our plan we need fields for: Forename Surname DOB Shoe Size Favourite Food What other field might you include?

20. Task 2 Open Microsoft Access and input the data you have collected.

21. Extension Task When you have finished inputting data, swap computers with a friend and check that they have input their data correctly

23. Develop your ability to gather and input data

25. Homework Complete the wordsearch. Write it in your planner!