ACARA 7-8 Digital Technologies: Acquiring data from sensors and online repositories
Students learn how sensors, the micro:bit data logger and online data repositories supply data, and how to bring that data into a spreadsheet.
One content description (AC9TDI8P01) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 — Acquiring and Storing Data journey. All 17 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (17)
1
What a sensor is
2
Temperature sensor
3
Moisture sensor
4
Light sensor
5
Accelerometer sensor
6
Matching sensors to the data they capture
7
Data collected over a period of time
8
Reading the micro:bit temperature with input.temperature()
9
Recording readings with datalogger.log()
10
Copying a micro:bit data log into a spreadsheet
11
Faulty sensor readings and outliers
12
Open data portals and data licences
13
Authentic data in large repositories
14
Searching and filtering a data repository
15
Dataset file formats: CSV, XLSX, JSON and XML
16
Importing data from a CSV file
17
Generating sample test data
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