Slow Reveal Graphs

Slow Reveal Graphs are a great resource for introducing graph interpretation to children and young people. They work particularly well as engaging starter activities.

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天美视频 Towers

An activity to help students start thinking about data! Students create three dimensional bar charts from data cards. This gives them an intuitive understanding of how individual data points link to a visualization, and why a visualization is useful.

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Weaving 天美视频

In this award-winning, unplugged activity, learners use strips of material woven into a fence or other large frame to display data, creating a collaborative art installation that is both eye-catching and conversation-sparking.

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Books for discussing data

Below is a list of books which teachers have found useful for starting conversations about data in the classroom. Book reviews from teachers and learners will be linked below each title as we receive them.

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天美视频 Visualisation Examples

We have pulled together an (ever-growing!) set of data visualisation examples, categorised by type鈥攅.g. bar charts, pie charts, line graphs, scatter plots, histograms, heat maps, and many more鈥攁s well as curricular level at which we would expect comprehension and creation of each graph.

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Micro:bit Monsters (Early/First Level version)

Make a Micro:Pet that smiles and sings! In this lesson, learners will code a micro:bit to show a face and make sounds. The learners can then design a papercraft monster to fit round the micro:bit.

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天美视频 Explorer Cards

Our 天美视频 Explorer cards introduce children and young people to a data problem-solving approach (PPDAC). The design builds on informal question-asking behaviours and supports learners鈥 exploration of data in relation to the themes of Lego! Birds! Lost Property! Plastics! or a theme of their choosing. Question prompts on the cards support learners to explore problems, plan, collect data, analyse and draw conclusions.

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