Data, Information and Knowledge

Starters and plenaries

Draw me a picture

Students are given a selection of key terms and are asked to illustrate one of them in a diagram.

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Acting up

A fun starter activity.

Students are given a character card. They then have to explain a term related to this topic whilst staying in character.

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10 questions

Starter task

A volunteer (either a student or class teacher) is given a slip of paper so they know 'what they are'.

The rest of the class can ask up to a maximum of 10 questions to guess what they are. The volunteer can only answer 'yes' or 'no'

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30 Seconds

Starter task

Students are shown a number of terms for exactly 30 seconds. They need to memorise as many as possible. After 30 seconds, the terms are hidden and they need to write down as many terms as they can remember along with at least one fact about that term.

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Give me ten

A starter or plenary task

Students work in pairs to come up with ten words related to this project before joining up with another pair to expand their list.

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Just a minute

Starter or plenary task

Students are asked to talk to a partner about this topic for 60 seconds whilst abiding by a set of rules

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Lucky dip questions

Starter or plenary task

Every student is given a number at the start of the activity. This is used to help pick who will ask and answer questions about what has been learned during the lesson.

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One Two Three

Can be used either as a starter or a plenary task.

Students are given a sheet to complete firstly on their own, then with a partner and then joining up with another pair

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Teach me about ...

Students become the teacher! One student is tasked with preparing a five minute revision starter about this topic for the beginning of the following lesson.

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Teacher talkabout

Starter or plenary task

The class 'test' the teacher on their knowledge of key words related to this topic

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Three facts

Starter or plenary task

Students are asked to write down three facts that they can remember off the top of their heads about the topic.

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4-4-2

A plenary activity where students are asked to summarise the lesson and pick out the main key words related to the topic.

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Corkboard

A great plenary idea both for AFL and for getting feedback from every student

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I predict

This task acts as the plenary from one lesson and the starter for the next lesson

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Mastermind

A plenary activity which is loosely based on the game show 'Mastermind'

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Pyramid

A plenary activity.

Students are asked to complete a self assessment sheet to indicate what they have learned during this lesson

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Taboo

Probably best as a plenary activity.

This task follows the traditional Taboo game. Students work in teams with one student from each team having their back to the board. A word is displayed on the board and teams take it in turns to describe the word to the student without actually mentioning the word itself.

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Lesson tasks and homework

Theory Notes Task

Students read the theory notes on the mini website and then answer the questions on the sheet.

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Key terms and examples task

Students are given a sheet where they record their definitions for data, information and knowlege along with appropriate examples.

Task answers are supplied

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Turning data into information and then knowledge task

Students are given an example of data and then asked to provide a context. From the context, they identify the information and then from the information, they determine examples of knowledge.

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Determine the question task

Students are given the answers to various questions. From the given answers, they have to determine the question.

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Exam question - what is wrong?

Students are given a genuine answer written by another student in response to an exam style question.

They have to determine what is wrong with the answer and then write a better one themselves

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Construct an answer

Students are given an exam style question to answer. They are also given a set of key words to incorporate into their answer.

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Reduce it

Students are given a section of theory. They pick out the 20 most important words. They are then asked to reduce these to the 8 they consider to be the most important.

A great task for really getting them to concentrate and think about the text in front of them.

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Mind Map

Students are given the basic structure of a mind map for this topic. They are asked to complete the mind map by adding extra branches.

Mind maps are a useful tool to use as a revision aid.

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100 words

Students have exactly 100 words to summarise the key points about this topic

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PNI

Students are asked to identify the positive, negative and interesting points relating to this topic

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