Acquiring and preparing data from online data repositories
In this lesson, students develop skills to acquire, store and validate data from online data repositories. They learn how to navigate popular data sources and download data for use in spreadsheets. They also gain essential skills in cleaning and preparing data for analysis.
Additional details
Year band(s) | 7-8 |
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Content type | Lesson ideas |
Format | Web page |
Core and overarching concepts | Data acquisition, Data interpretation |
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI8P01
Acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources using software, including spreadsheets and databases |
Keywords | spreadsheets, data analysis, acquiring |
Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Digital Literacy |
Organisation | ESA |
Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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