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Handling Data and Research

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Research

All About Explorers - a site full of bias and wrong information, for teaching children to be critical online

 

Handling Data

Survey Monkey - an online survey creator tool, allowing you to collect data from beyond your school

Census At School - the results of questionnaires from children in a range of countries, to download and compare with your own results. The downloads are in CSV format, which means you can open them in Excel or in most school databases.

 

Data Files

Here are a collection of data files perfect for Handling Data in Key Stage 2. To download them, right click and choose Save Target As. They are in CSV format, which means you can open them in Excel or in most school databases, although the method is different for each database. To make it easier, below are zipped files containing all the datafiles in three of the most common formats.

 

  • Here is data from the Swindon 1901 census, covering two contrasting streets: Little London and The Sands. Children can compare the streets by looking at people's ages and occupations, family size, etc. 1901
  • This is a datafile of the average rainfall, temperature and hours of daylight in each month since January 2002. Weather
  • World Weather and Mountains contain data about the world's longest rivers/ highest mountains, comparing them to the UK.
  • The Rivers datafile has data on most of the major world rivers.
  • The Planets datafile contains data about the major planets and moons of the solar system.
  • Animals is a datafile giving facts about world animals, including diet, habitat, size and life span.
  • Rocks and Materials are designed to help with Science.
  • Britain Since 1930 is from the government's Learning and Teaching using ICT website and lists household possessions in different decades.

 

 

Here is a link to a range of datafiles written by Oxfordshire, including 1881 census data on Oxfordshire workhouses, and the marvellous Criminals project. If you use Criminals, there are prompt sheets to help you.

 

If you use Junior Viewpoint, their website provides a range of free datafiles to download.

 

For the Second World War, try Robert Westall's website. You can search their online database of a list of civilians killed in a bombing raid in Newcastle.

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