Databases

Searching & Sorting Activities

Stand up and put your chair under your desk out of the way.

Put your laptop and books on your table so that no one can trip over them.

Group yourselves by House.

Ward, Mulhall, Barry, Mornane

House

Group yourselves by Month of Birth.

You will need to move around the room and find girls who were born in the same month. Stand together.

Month of Birth

Arrange yourselves around the room in a circle or semicircle by Height – Tallest to Smallest

Height

Arrange yourselves in Groups based on Eye Colour

e.g.

Blue, Brown, Grey, Green

Eye Colour

Arrange yourselves in Groups based on your Shoe Size

Shoe Size

DatabasesYou just been part of a human database!

Each of you has unique Data – Shoe Size, Height etc.

A Database is made up of Records

(each one of you is a record in the class database)

Name Age Height Eye Colour

Jane 13 130 cm Brown

Nicola 14 124 cm Green

Record Record

DatabasesA Record has Fields(each person is a record and has several fields of information stored about them)

RecordRecord

Field

Field

Field

Field

Name Age Height Eye Colour

Jane 13 130 cm Brown

Nicola 14 124 cm Green

Database Example - Top Trumps What Fields and Data are being used in this Record?