Before the lesson
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Learning objective
- To interpret data
National curriculum
Pupils should be taught to:
- Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
- CAS progression pathway: Recognises different types of data: text, number (AB) (GE)
- CAS progression pathway: Appreciates that programs can work with different types of data (GE)
- CAS progression pathway: Recognises that data can be structured in tables to make it useful (AB) (DE)
Success criteria
Cross-curricular links
Attention grabber
Main event
Differentiation
Pupils needing extra support: Should use the Activity: Unknown planets top trump cards to work from and should focus on the temperature field to see which planets might support life.
Pupils working at greater depth: Should look at both temperature and size to decide whether it would be habitable.