Lesson 1 - Data Capture

Keywords - database, data, data capture, questionnaire,
data capture form, field, fieldname

Starter

In groups, students brainstorm what makes a) a healthy meal and b) an unhealthy meal.  They should compare their suggestions and participate in a question/answer session about healthy and unhealthy elements.

Teacher to introduce the project and its objectives.

Main Activity

The first task for the healthy eating system is the database, which will record data about each different type of food/drink.

Students brainstorm nutritional content of typical foods and drinks – these categories of nutrition form the fieldnames for the foods database.

Students should begin the data capture activity by designing a data capture form, capturing different categories of data about each food.

Plenary

Recap meanings of keywords and link between their form and the database. 

Homework

Collect food labels from home which contain nutritional data – bring in next week to enter into database.