Handling science data Year 5, Scottish primary 6 - Peter Horwood

Children consistently struggle in the science national tests when
asked to explain data presented as tables of results or graphs
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
four year-specific books of 64 pages each. Each book provides pired
pages: pupils' photocopiable worksheets presenting some science
data (in a form appropriate to the mathematical development of
children of that age) with interrogation questions, and teachers'
notes explaining how to obtain similar data, the key features
of the data presentation given and the answers to the questions on
the pupil's page.
Each book will include activities 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 references
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 energy.
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.