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Digital technologies / Year 5 and 6 / Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Version 8
Curriculum content descriptions
Acquire, store and validate different types of data, and use a range of software to interpret and visualise data to create information (ACTDIP016)
Elaborations
- using digital systems to validate data, for example setting data types in a spreadsheet to make sure a date is input correctly
- selecting and using peripheral devices suitable to the data, for example using a data probe to collect data about changing soil temperatures for plants, interpreting the data and sharing the results as a digital graph
- recognising the difference between numerical, text and date formats in spreadsheets
- using software to automate calculations to help with interpreting data, for example using functions to make arithmetic calculations using multiple cells and summing cell ranges
- acquiring data from online sources by narrowing the focus, for example filtering data using provided options or performing queries using advanced search functions
- using data visualisation software to help in interpreting trends, for example uploading data to a web application and building a visualisation of the dataset
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Data representation, Information management, Collation, Data storage