1. Lesson Objectives

• Develop your understanding of data & information

2. Develop your ability to gather and input data 3. Develop your knowledge of Microsoft Access

4. Databases
5. What is this?
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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
22. Lesson Objectives

Develop your understanding of data & information 23. Develop your ability to gather and input data 24. Develop your knowledge of Microsoft Access

Plenary
Ask a question about this database.
Then chose a friend to answer it.
25. Homework
Complete the wordsearch.
Write it in your planner!