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Lesson Two – Animal Search

This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to use an online database to search for information about animals to answer different key questions. The class can suggest reasons why different facts about animals might have been stored in a database.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use an online database to search for information about animals to answer different key questions

Learning Objectives

Use technology purposefully to retrieve digital content. Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school.

Learning Outcomes

I can explain how to find information stored in a database. I can give reasons why people store information on a particular topic.

Animal Search

Teaching sequence to help the children use an online database to search for information about animals to answer different key questions

Animal Questions

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify and explain how to find information using an online database

Animal Questions

Template to help the children record and find answers to questions for a set of data about different wild animals

Animal Search

Interactive activity to help the children use an online database to search for information about animals to answer different key questions

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use an online database to search for information about animals to answer different key questions

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