Handling science data Year 3, Scottish primary 4 - Peter Horwood

Children consistently struggle in the science national tests when
they asked to explain data presented as tables of results or grphs.
The skills needed to understand and use such data must be developed
throughout the primary years.
This series is aimed at teachers of KS2/Primary 4-7. It comprises
of four year-specific books of 64 pages each. Each book provide
paired pages: pupils' photocopiable worksheets presenting someience
data (in a form appropriate to the mathematical development
of children of that age) with interrogation questions, and teacers'
notes explaining how to obtain similar data, the key features
of the data presentation given and the answers to the questionss
on the pupil's page.
Each book will include activties relating to living things, materials
and physical processes. The topics to which the data relates
will be drawn from the QCA Science Scheme of Work, but with refrences
to show their application in Scotland, for example, and including
one or two data sets in each book to cover the occasional
topics that only occur in the Scottish curriculum, such as enery.
The data presented in these books is real work by Year 3-6 children,
collected for the Liverpool John Moores University Primary Science
Project, sponsored by the Astra Zeneca Science Teaching Trust.