Functional ICT

Lesson FiveWorking with structured data (1/3)

Recap

What should websites be?– valid– accurate – reliable

What can you use to narrow down a web search?– Boolean operators

What allows you to access to the internet?– Browsers

What can you use to search for information?– Search engines

Bookmarks allow you to ..........................?– save pages for future use

AND OR

NOT

Working with structured data

Week 5 Week 6 Week 7

Week 8

Working with structured data

Lesson Aims and Objectives – structure and present data in a table

You will learn how to:– build a data table– enter meaningful field names – work with different types of data – format data– sort data in different ways

Structuring Data – Starter Task

Task – What personal data do you think the college holds about you?How could this be stored in a spreadsheet?

10 mins

Right Click on the Cell

Formatting Structured data

Task – What format type is most suitable and is it a meaningful data name?― Name― Age― Date of birth ― Part number― Stock code (alpha and numeric)― Address― Cost ― Company name― Salary― Order date― Course code― Car registration

10 mins

Extension task :What other data elements can you

format?

The Spreadsheet

Column Header

Cell

Column

Row

Data Table

Recap - Structured data

Format the cells or columns to suit the data typeUse meaning data namesSpreadsheets consist of rows, columns and cellsA range is a collection of two or more cells.Data can be formatted by :– Right clicking on cell or column– Select format cell– Select data type

Structuring Data

Task – What obvious features differentiate UK bank notes?

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current/index.htm

10 mins

Denomination 1st Issued Size Portrait Colour

Structuring Data

Can you identify each of the bank notes individually?

ID Denomination 1st Issued Size Portrait Colour

Structuring Data

Task – Using the internet, create a spreadsheet that could log all of the information about UK bank notes? Ensure that appropriate data types are used.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current/index.htm

10 mins

Extension task :Format your spreadsheet

using other types of formatting.

Skill Check

enter suitable field names format data types enter and edit recordsunderstand the difference between rows, columns

and cells

Homework

Look at 5 spreadsheets you use at work and evaluate what different data types are employed and whether they are suitable for the type of data.

Record your details and any changes you would make.