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#Understand that data can be in different formats | #Understand that data can be in different formats | ||
#Reading different kinds of data to make meaning | #Reading different kinds of data to make meaning | ||
#Analyzing data aand expressing | #Analyzing data aand expressing | ||
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#[[Learn Ubuntu|Creating folders and saving files]] | #[[Learn Ubuntu|Creating folders and saving files]] | ||
#Opening a given file with the correct application | #Opening a given file with the correct application | ||
#[[Learn Tux Typing|Familiarity with using a key board]] | #[[Learn Tux Typing|Familiarity with using a key board]] | ||
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#Computer lab with projection | #Computer lab with projection | ||
#[[Learn Firefox|Access to internet]] | #[[Learn Firefox|Access to internet]] | ||
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#On each of the computers, you will find folders with different data sets. | #On each of the computers, you will find folders with different data sets. | ||
#Each group of students will get one data set to work with - this will comprise maps, satellite images, pictographs and bar graphs. Your teacher will also give you a set of questions for each data set. | #Each group of students will get one data set to work with - this will comprise maps, satellite images, pictographs and bar graphs. Your teacher will also give you a set of questions for each data set. | ||
##Make a concept map of what you understand with the data | ##Make a concept map of what you understand with the data | ||
##You can also add your findings in a text document. | ##You can also add your findings in a text document. | ||
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#Make a concept map, as shown by your teacher, to share your findings: | #Make a concept map, as shown by your teacher, to share your findings: | ||
##What is the data about | ##What is the data about | ||
Revision as of 05:32, 22 November 2016
Data can tell stories
Objectives
- Understand that data can be in different formats
- Reading different kinds of data to make meaning
- Analyzing data aand expressing
What prior skills are assumed
- Creating folders and saving files
- Opening a given file with the correct application
- Familiarity with using a key board
Resources needed
- Computer lab with projection
- Access to internet
- Data in the form of bar graphs, pictographs, maps (images)
- Handout for Ubuntu
- Handout for Tux Typing
- Handout for LibreOffice Writer
- Handout for Freeplane
Digital skills
- Navigating a folder
- Opening multiple files with multiple applications
- Text entry (local languages)
Description of activity with detailed steps
Teacher led activity
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Student activities
- On each of the computers, you will find folders with different data sets.
- Each group of students will get one data set to work with - this will comprise maps, satellite images, pictographs and bar graphs. Your teacher will also give you a set of questions for each data set.
- Make a concept map of what you understand with the data
- You can also add your findings in a text document.
In the workshop, teachers are requested to identify more data sets along similar lines which can be added as additional student activities
Rainfall
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Pictographs-one per group
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India's forests
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Portfolio
- Make a concept map, as shown by your teacher, to share your findings:
- What is the data about
- What forms of representation did you study?
- What are the advantages of each representation?
- What did you conclude from the data?
- Have you studied about this before?
- What more do you want to know
- Text document with your understanding of the data