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Computing systems: Websites, search and storage

Exploring how information travels across the internet to display webpages, how search engines rank results and how file sizes affect storage choices.

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  5. Computing systems: Websites, search and storage

Unit outcomes

  • Describe how information travels across the internet from a server to a device.
  • Explain the roles of browsers, servers and webpages in displaying information online.
  • Describe how search engines find, rank and present search results.
  • Recognise different types of search results and explain the factors that influence their ranking.
  • Refine searches by choosing effective keywords and evaluating the usefulness of search results.
  • Compare file sizes and explain why different files take up different amounts of storage space.
  • Choose appropriate files to download or delete based on their size and the amount of storage available.
  • Compare different types of digital storage and transfer files by uploading and downloading between storage areas.

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Lesson 1: How websites work

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Lesson 2: How search results are ranked

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Lesson 3: Searching the web and search results

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Lesson 4: Storage and file sizes

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Lesson 5: Where to store

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Key skills

  • Describing how a website works (e.g., how a browser requests a web page from a server).
  • Explain how search engines work and how they present information.
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Key knowledge

  • To know that search engine results are ranked and influenced by factors like keywords, advertisements and popularity.
  • To know that downloading is copying data from one storage place to another, like from the cloud to a local device. 
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Key vocabulary

artificial intelligence

browser

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  • Kiddle
  • Kapow teacher dashboard
  • Envelopes 6
  • Digital device (internet-enabled) ×15

  • A small storage box and a collection of glue sticks
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Knowledge organiser – Computing Y5: Computing systems

Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'Website, search and storage’

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Vocabulary display – Computing Y5: Computing systems

A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Websites, search and storage'.

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Cross-curricular opportunities

English: Spoken language.

Maths: Measurement.

RSE and Health Education: Health and wellbeing – Wellbeing online & Relationships education – Online safety and awareness.

 

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