Selecting relevant data

Digital literacy

Data as clues

Sorting data to solve problems

Trusting data

Combining and comparing data

Data as evidence

Pupils investigate datasets to solve the mystery of Ruby, the missing rhino. They sort, organise and compare data from different sources, judge which information is useful or reliable and combine clues to form a final theory, presented as a news report.

Data detectives

Which of these best describes relevant data?

Some data is more relevant than other data.

Data is only useful if it is interesting.

because it does not help answer the question

Why is some data irrelevant to a question?

to show how the data helps answer the question

Why is it important to explain why data is relevant?

Which of these is written down to help people remember information?

Which of these tells us when something happened?

Which sentence is a fact that could be checked later?

Selecting relevant data

Lesson outcome