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LEARNING AND PROGRESS PLAN
Year 8 – Autumn Half-Term 2
What will I be learning about?
What will I be learning about?
In Your
thisschool
unit you
will find
outstudents
about databases
and
decided
to take
on a trip to London.
learn
how to
a database
to store
search
Students
haduse
been
enjoying a day
of siteand
seeing
in London
when the local police,
led by Sherlock Holmes, closed the
information.
Tower of London. A body had been found hidden in the cellar.
Continuing with the focus on databases you will
Sherlock Holmes has very quickly set up an interview room and
try
to solve
a murderfrom
mystery.
willinadd
gathered
information
all theYou
tourists
thedata
area. The
toschool
a database,
filter
records–and
to
party was
not included
theyuse
hadqueries
been visiting
Buckingham palace
onfor
thesuspects.
day the murder was committed.
search
Unfortunately Sherlock Holmes is in need of your help. You are
the best database expert the school has so you are to use the
database to obtain the information the he requires.
Writing
Key Vocab
this HalfTerm
Table, Record,
Field, Data
Entry Form,
Query, Filter,
Advanced
Filter, Report,
Evaluate,
Relationship
ASSESSMENT
In this unit your core
assessment will be by
completion of APP which
will involve you completing
database tasks and then
evaluating the work you
have completed.
I can...
a. Develop clear sentences which
use a capital letter, full stop and
comma effectively.
b. Use a range of connectives to
build up links between ideas.
c. Spell most functional (or
everyday) words correctly, though
I sometimes get difficult words
wrong.
By the end of this unit you should be able to......
Add information to the database.
Create a user friendly data entry form.
Carry out queries to search for information.
Filter records to find information to answer questions.
Compare the electronic database with a paper based database.
Identify which jobs may require the use of a database.
Evaluate the work you have completed by identifying the good features,
not so good features and areas of improvements.