Technologies

This page provides access to a comprehensive set of resources covering a significant portion of the National Progression Award (NPA) curriculum across Levels 4, 5, and 6.

• Curriculum Level: NPA Data Science Senior Phase (S4-6)
• Curricular area: Sciences Technologies
• Topics and Themes: Data Analysis Data visualisation

This is an 'unplugged' activity to help demystify AI, where learners work together to create a simple 'ChatGPT' system to generate a story.

• Curriculum Level: First (P2-P4) Second (P5-P7) Third (S1-S3)
• Curricular area: Languages Technologies
• Topics and Themes: Computer Science Digital Literacy Finding & Using Information Processing and Managing Information Responsibly

This is an 'unplugged' activity to help demystify AI, where learners work together to create a baby 'ChatGPT' system and generate a sentence.

• Curriculum Level: First (P2-P4) Second (P5-P7) Third (S1-S3)
• Curricular area: Languages Technologies
• Topics and Themes: Computer Science Digital Literacy Finding & Using Information Processing and Managing Information Responsibly

This is a little activity to help demystify AI to try and explain in a very simple way how machine learning works, what the chat bots we’re using are actually doing, what are large language models actually doing?

• Curriculum Level: First (P2-P4) Second (P5-P7) Third (S1-S3)
• Curricular area: Languages Technologies
• Topics and Themes: Computer Science Finding & Using Information Processing and Managing Information Responsibly

Below is a list of books which teachers have found useful for starting conversations about data in the classroom. Book reviews from teachers and learners will be linked below each title as we receive them.

• Curriculum Level: Early (Pre 5 & P1) First (P2-P4) NPA Data Science Second (P5-P7) Senior Phase (S4-6) Third (S1-S3)
• Curricular area: Expressive arts Health and wellbeing Languages Maths & Numeracy Religious and moral education Sciences Social Studies Technologies

We have pulled together an (ever-growing!) set of data visualisation examples, categorised by type—e.g. bar charts, pie charts, line graphs, scatter plots, histograms, heat maps, and many more—as well as curricular level at which we would expect comprehension and creation of each graph.

• Curriculum Level: Early (Pre 5 & P1) First (P2-P4) NPA Data Science Second (P5-P7) Senior Phase (S4-6) Third (S1-S3)
• Curricular area: Expressive arts Health and wellbeing Languages Maths & Numeracy Religious and moral education Sciences Social Studies Technologies
• Topics and Themes: Data visualisation
• PPDAC Framework: Analysis Conclusion

This activity is part of our set of Data-themed Escape Rooms. For background info on the DATA Agency and the VIKINGS villains, read our Top Secret Brief.

• Curriculum Level: Second (P5-P7) Third (S1-S3)
• Curricular area: Maths & Numeracy Technologies
• Topics and Themes: Data Analysis Data visualisation Finding & Using Information

This activity is part of our set of Data-themed Escape Rooms. For background info on the DATA Agency and the VIKINGS villains, read our Top Secret Brief.

• Curriculum Level: Second (P5-P7) Third (S1-S3)
• Curricular area: Maths & Numeracy Sciences Technologies
• Topics and Themes: Data Analysis Data visualisation Digital Literacy Finding & Using Information

This activity is part of our set of Data-themed Escape Rooms. For background info on the DATA Agency and the VIKINGS villains, read our Top Secret Brief.

• Curriculum Level: Second (P5-P7) Third (S1-S3)
• Curricular area: Social Studies Technologies
• Topics and Themes: Finding & Using Information