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Data in Technology
Teaching notes
How to use this website in your year 3 or 4 classroom
This site has been designed to be used over a number of lessons to support student learning within the Australian Curriculum: Technologies learning area for years 3 and 4. Content is flexible and allows for use at introductory, practice or consolidation stages of learning, and is differentiated to cater for diverse ability levels. You may treat this as a mini unit of work and complete the learning activities sequentially. Alternatively, activities can operate as stand alone lessons, depending on your chosen curriculum focus and access to technology within your context. This resource specifically compliments mathematics syllabus for data collection and representation, and integrates ICT, literacy, numeracy and critical and creative thinking as general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities. Multiple opportunities exist for further development of included ideas, such as traditional indigenous artwork as code, and morse code, soundwaves or digital imagery as data. This is intended as a base for you to expand on to suit the needs of your class.
Support is provided throughout the webquest with linked access to reference and guide materials allowing scaffolding of students current knowledge and skills (and teachers!) as they work through tasks. You may choose to complete some tasks as a whole class to provide additional support, and explicit instruction where needed. Students then have multiple opportunities to practice and master skills in small groups or individually, with flexible timing accomodated by the webquest format. Students may work at their own pace, or focus on specific concepts to address their individual learning needs. Formative assessment opportunities throughout allow judgements to be made regarding student attainment and the final included summative assessment task integrates processes and skills that have been developed through the site activities to allow all students the chance to demonstrate capability.
Gifted and talented students have the opportunity to work through tasks at their own pace, and complete more complex or multiple variants of tasks, to encourage deeper conceptual understanding and mastery. The included Dr Who challenge is specifically designed to allow higher achieving students to engage with a challenging task that gives opportunity for extended learning outcomes to be demonstrated.
Differentiation
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