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What Is a Database?

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Set it as homework or classwork and every answer is marked as pupils go, with feedback on what they got wrong. The scores go straight into your mark book, so you can see who needs help before the next lesson.

  • 11 questions
  • 35 marks
  • about 45 minutes
  • marked instantly

Question types: wordsearch, multiple choice, true or false, fill the gap, sorting.

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A library, a school system and a supermarket till all rely on the same tool for storing data. Which statement best describes what a database is?

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About this resource

Meet the database: an organised collection of structured data. Learn what records (rows) and fields (columns) are, spot the real databases all around us (libraries, schools, shops), see how a database differs from a plain list or a spreadsheet, and understand the flat-file idea.

16 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Recall & Connect
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Database — What It Is and What It Is Not
  5. Quick Check — Spot the Database
  6. Records and Fields — Reading the Table
  7. Task 1 (guided) — Rows, Columns and Cells
  8. Hinge Check — Record or Field?
  9. Databases Are All Around Us
  10. Task 2 (semi-guided) — Structured or Unstructured?
  11. Apply It — Complete the Summary
  12. What a Full-Mark Answer Looks Like
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