Guide to an Area

In Guide to an Area, students research and organise information about a location to create an interactive guide.

Duration: 4-6 hours

Guide to an Area is suitable for:

• Key Stage 3
• Key Stage 4
• Post-16

Students use Maps, Search and Sheets.

By the end of these lessons, students should be able to:

• Identify and explain common terms and concepts related to spreadsheets
• Organise and manipulate data in a spreadsheet
• Break down data, processes, or problems into smaller, manageable parts
• Write a program to automate a task

The resource is video-based and features FREE, ready-to-use lesson plans, rubrics to enable teachers to evaluate a student’s work across a variety of skills and levels of proficiency (i.e. beginner, developing, accomplished, and exemplary) and a dashboard to show how each student is progressing.

How to get started? Sign in as an Instructor with a Google account here. If you don’t have a Google account, click “more options” and then “create an account”.

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