Teaching Data and Information to 5- to 11-year-olds

Help learners understand how to handle and use data to answer questions

Data and information can influence many of our daily activities, often without us even being aware of it. It’s important for young people to understand how individuals and organisations collect and use data about them. They should also learn how they can collect and manage data themselves.

On this three-week course, you’ll find out how you can develop young learners’ knowledge of data and information, and how they can use data to help answer questions about the world.

You’ll investigate the different stages of data handling and see how you can introduce key concepts and skills in an age-appropriate manner.

Explore how young people work with data across the curriculum

You’ll think about the many reasons why we collect data and how data is relevant to different subjects across the curriculum. You’ll also learn how to encourage young people to start asking questions that they can answer using data.

At the end of the first week, you’ll learn about a model for the entire data handling process, which you’ll build on throughout the course.

Support learners to structure and analyse data

You’ll think about how giving structure to data makes it more useful. You’ll also learn how to support young people to use more complicated data structures as they develop their understanding.

Learn how to guide young people to analyse data and present their findings

You’ll explore how you and your learners can use the collected data to come to conclusions and how best to present findings to different audiences.

Bring your skills together with the experts at the Raspberry Pi Foundation

You’ll finish the course by working through an entire data handling project, using skills from all of the different stages.

You’ll then learn how to apply the knowledge and skills you have gained in your own setting.