A Guide to Designing Inclusive Educational Materials
This document is a starting point for helping you design more inclusive educational materials, with links to useful online resources.
- Curriculum Level: Early (Pre 5 & P1) First (P2-P4) NPA Data Science Second (P5-P7) Senior Phase (S4-6) Third (S1-S3)
- Curricular area: AI
Slow Reveal Graphs
Slow Reveal Graphs are a great resource for introducing graph interpretation to children and young people. They work particularly well as engaging starter activities.
- Curriculum Level: Early (Pre 5 & P1) First (P2-P4) Second (P5-P7) Senior Phase (S4-6) Third (S1-S3)
- Topics and Themes: External Resource
Robot Cards
What are Robot Cards? These cards, developed by the Data Education in Schools team, introduce Primary School students to early concepts in statistics and data analysis.
- Curriculum Level: First (P2-P4)
- Curricular area: Maths & Numeracy
- Topics and Themes: Data Analysis
- PPDAC Framework: Analysis Conclusion Data Plan Problem
Data Towers
An activity to help students start thinking about data! Students create three dimensional bar charts from data cards. This gives them an intuitive understanding of how individual data points link to a visualization, and why a visualization is useful.
- Curriculum Level: Early (Pre 5 & P1) First (P2-P4)
- Curricular area: Maths & Numeracy
- Topics and Themes: Data Analysis Data visualisation
- PPDAC Framework: Data
Data Literacy Outcomes in the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, by level and topic
We have identified outcomes across the whole Broad General Education and grouped them into topics suitable for applying Data Skills.
- Curriculum Level: Early (Pre 5 & P1) First (P2-P4) 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
Unmasking data disasters
An online Cyber Skills Live activity where students uncover the identities of people within an anonymous dataset.
- Curriculum Level: First (P2-P4) Second (P5-P7)
Data Selfie
An online Cyber Skills Live activity where students create a piece of data-driven art about themselves.
- Curriculum Level: First (P2-P4) Second (P5-P7)
Plug in the Numbers
This is a online Cyber Skills live activity where students fight climate change by creating a renewable energy system for their school.
- Curriculum Level: First (P2-P4) Second (P5-P7)
Defend the Rhino
This is an activity made with Cyber Skills live, where students stop a gang of rhino poachers.
- Curriculum Level: First (P2-P4) Second (P5-P7)