There are many opportunities in science where children are expected to sort, group and classify objects and animals

Normal Databases

Ideas
Children could create and use database software to analyse data about:

• types of food in school lunches
• properties of materials
• how materials change when heated or cooled
• different types of animals and their habitats
• plants
• hair colour, eye colour, etc
• properties of rocks such as hardness, colour, ability to mark paper, etc.

Case Studies on the Kent ICT website

Using a Database in a Friction Investigation - Cliftonville Primary School

The stages in Introducing a Database - Rocks

Branching Databases

Children should use a simple branching database program to classify objects or materials (eg animals, plants, minibeasts).

Walking with Woodlice
Online branching database for identifying woodlice

Useful Websites

Woodlands Explorer Kent's Nature Grid Website

Pond Explorer Kent's Nature Grid Website

Grassland Explorer (minibeasts) Kent's Nature Grid Website

Photographs of mini beasts

Photographs of birds

Sorting Games Mape website