Data logging
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Why this why now
Pupils build on their understanding of how data can be collected over time to provide deeper insights. This unit introduces automatic data collection, showing how sensors can act as input devices to monitor the environment in ways similar to human senses. Understanding why and how data is gathered over time prepares pupils for more advanced work in data logging, analysis, and interpreting patterns in later years, across a wide range of real-world applications.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils understand that digital devices capture input.
- Pupils understand that digital devices process data into useful outputs.
- Pupils understand that computer systems are the combination of many component parts.
- Pupils understand what data is and how it is collected to summarise information about the real world.
Threads
Why this why now
Pupils build on their understanding of how data can be collected over time to provide deeper insights. This unit introduces automatic data collection, showing how sensors can act as input devices to monitor the environment in ways similar to human senses. Understanding why and how data is gathered over time prepares pupils for more advanced work in data logging, analysis, and interpreting patterns in later years, across a wide range of real-world applications.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils understand that digital devices capture input.
- Pupils understand that digital devices process data into useful outputs.
- Pupils understand that computer systems are the combination of many component parts.
- Pupils understand what data is and how it is collected to summarise information about the real world.
Data logging
In this unit, pupils will consider how and why data is collected. They will explore how sensors monitor the environment. Pupils will collect data as well as access data captured over long periods. They will look at data points, data sets, logging intervals and use a computer to analyse data.
6 lessons in unit
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