Paul Nolan & Tim Erasmus History Resource

NGfL CYMRUGCaD The Charts Subject: English/Maths/ICT Date: Skills: Maths:  identify, obtain and process information needed to carry out their work  read information from charts, graphs and text  use a variety of methods to represent data  present and interpret a range of graphs that represent data; draw conclusions from this data; collect data for a purpose, and that arise from their own questions  use and present data in a variety of ways including tables, charts, bar charts, line graphs, text and ICT  calculate and use the mode, median, mean and range of a set of discrete data English:  communicate clearly and confidently, expressing opinions, adapting talk to audience and purpose  communicating for a range of purposes, e.g. presenting information about survey  writing for a range of purposes, e.g, survey report,  writing in a range of forms- develop survey questions History:  identify differences between ways of life at different times  ask and answer relevant questions about the past  use a range of sources, including ICT, eg adults talking about their own past, visual sources, data and appropriate written sources ICT:  find information from a variety of sources for a defined purpose  select suitable information  produce and use databases to ask and answer questions, e.g. search, sort and graph Success criteria Skills Framework- Main Focus Stimulus and introduction: Thinking: How is new music listened to and promoted in the Understand the differences Asking questions present day? from 1960s to present day Generating and developing How was it listened to and promoted in the sixties? ideas Pupil activity: Be able to write a survey Thinking:  Devise and use a survey of music in the 60s to ask with meaningful questions, Gathering Information grandparents/relatives? (Where did they listen to report back clearly and Considering evidence, info and and/or buy music (Record shops, Pirate Radio understand the reasons for ideas etc)? How did they listen to it? Did they watch collating information Communicating: music TV programmes, (Ready Steady Go, Juke Developing info/ideas Box Jury, etc) How important were ‘The Charts’? Can use maths skills of Communicating information Report back to class, and devise a way to collate mean, median, mode and ICT: information. range with meaningful data. Finding and developing  Using data from website www.sixtiescity.com info/ideas (sixties music and pop charts - singles charts Can make choices about Creating and presenting statistics) Take data from ‘most weeks on chart- suitable sets of data for information total by artist’. Calculate mean, median, mode and these types of calculations Number: range. Children choose another category that is Using numbers suitable to make these calculations for. Can construct own data Measuring  Using data from website, create own base/ spreadsheet devise Gathering Information database/spreadsheet to interrogate and generate and answer questions, Comparing Data graphs from. Choose 6/8 groups/artists. Decide on and/or generate graphs Recording and interpreting data fields, eg No. of weeks on charts, No.1s, singles, and presenting findings albums etc

Activities: