7.2

Using Information Sources

Project Aims:

  • To identify the purposes of information
  • To create a survey using appropriate questions
  • To explore the Internet and narrow down a search
  • To judge how reliable and accurate sites are

 

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This unit will teach you the following skills:

3

c

Save information (data) and find and use stored information, following straightforward lines of inquiry.

4

d

Understand need for care in framing questions when collecting, finding and interrogating information.

4

f

Recognise that poor quality information (data) leads to unreliable results.

4

k

Compare their use of ICT with other methods – books versus Internet.

5

c

Select information (data) they need for different purposes.

5

d

Check its accuracy.