ICT student textbook/Data can tell stories

Data can tell stories

Objectives

1. Understand that data can be in different formats
2. Reading different kinds of data to make meaning
3. Analyzing data aand expressing

What prior skills are assumed

1. Creating folders and saving files
2. Opening a given file with the correct application
3. Familiarity with using a key board

Resources needed

1. Computer lab with projection
2. Access to internet
3. Data in the form of bar graphs, pictographs, maps (images)
4. Handout for Ubuntu
5. Handout for Tux Typing
6. Handout for LibreOffice Writer
7. Handout for Freeplane

Digital skills

1. Navigating a folder
2. Opening multiple files with multiple applications
3. Text entry (local languages)

Description of activity with detailed steps

Teacher led activity

Look at these examples of data representation in the form of a graph with your teacher. In small groups, discuss what are the various kinds of analysis you can make from this graph. Your teacher will summarize this analysis using a concept map or text document.

Student activities

1. On each of the computers, you will find folders with different data sets.
2. 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.
   1. Make a concept map of what you understand with the data
   2. You can also add your findings in a text document.

Rainfall

Pictographs-one per group

India's forests

Portfolio

1. Make a concept map, as shown by your teacher, to share your findings:
   1. What is the data about
   2. What forms of representation did you study?
   3. What are the advantages of each representation?
   4. What did you conclude from the data?
   5. Have you studied about this before?
   6. What more do you want to know
2. Text document with your understanding of the data