Skip to content
Lessons / Paraphrasing quantitative information with survey data logger

Paraphrasing quantitative information with survey data logger

Individual lesson

MakeCode

7-11 yrs

Students will use the BBC micro:bit as a data logger to collect observation data from their environment. For example, they might log data related to different modes of transportation to school, or litter on the school grounds. They will connect the micro:bit to a computer and then paraphrase the visual preview of data collected.

This activity may require an additional 45-60 minutes to fully engage students in creating the data logger and in collecting and analysing survey data.

Data literacy:

Collecting data

Interpreting data

Literacy:

Speaking & listening

Download lesson

Overall key learning

Learning objectives are at three different levels:

  • Mild - I can paraphrase quantitative data collected using the micro:bit traffic survey data logger.
  • Medium - I can modify my own micro:bit traffic survey data logger program to collect and paraphrase quantitative data.
  • Spicy - I can create my own micro:bit traffic survey data logger program to collect and paraphrase quantitative data.

Lesson plan preview

Skip embedded preview

Slides preview

Skip embedded preview

This content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence.

CA CCSS ELA Standards

Speaking and Listening: Comprehension and Collaboration

  • SL.4.2 Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

CA CS Standards

  • 3-5.DA.9 Use data to highlight and/or propose relationships, predict outcomes, or communicate ideas. (P7.1)
  • 3-5.AP.11 Create programs that use variables to store and modify data. (P5.2)
  • 3-5.AP.12 Create programs that include events, loops, and conditionals. (P5.2)
  • 3-5.CS.2 Demonstrate how computer hardware and software work together as a system to accomplish tasks. (P4.4)
  • 3-5.CS.3 Determine potential solutions to solve simple hardware and software problems using common troubleshooting strategies. (P6.2)
  • 3-5.AP.14 Create programs by incorporating smaller portions of existing programs, to develop something new or add more advanced features. (P4.2, P5.3)
  • 3-5.AP.17 Test and debug a program or algorithm to ensure it accomplishes the intended task. (P6.2)