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9-10 Digital Technologies: Acquiring, storing and validating data

Students collect data from different sources, store and clean it in spreadsheets and relational databases, and use formulas, validation rules and SQL to manipulate it.

Modules (28)

Printables for this journey

Every module above has its own free printable worksheet with an answer key. These crosswords and word searches cover the same terms:

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Years 5–6 Data & Information Crossword: Data, information and binary representation and Acquiring and manipulating data (Modules 11–20) 10 clues · Representing images with pixels, Primary and secondary data sources, Collecting data with a survey, Spreadsheet rows, columns and cells and more
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Years 5–6 Data & Information Crossword: Acquiring and manipulating data and Analysing and visualising data (Modules 21–30) 10 clues · Cleaning data, Formulas start with =, Arithmetic operators + - * /, The SUM function and more
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Years 5–6 Data & Information Word Search: Data, information and binary representation and Acquiring and manipulating data (Modules 1–20) 20 words to find · Data and information, Types of data: numbers and text, Types of data: images, sound and video, Same data, different representations and more
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Years 5–6 Data & Information Word Search: Acquiring and manipulating data to Digital footprint and privacy (Modules 21–56) 20 words to find · Cleaning data, Formulas start with =, Arithmetic operators + - * /, The SUM function and more
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VCE Data Analysis Crossword: Types and purposes of data and Data types and data characteristics (Modules 15–24) 10 clues · Open data portals and data licences, Text data: character and string, Numeric data: integer, Numeric data: floating point and more
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VCE Data Analysis Word Search: Types and purposes of data and Data types and data characteristics (Modules 3–24) 20 words to find · Quantitative data, Qualitative data, Purposes of qualitative and quantitative data, Interviews to gather perspectives on a topical issue and more
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VCE Spreadsheets, SQL & Visualisation Crossword: Spreadsheet structure, formulas and functions and Descriptive statistics (Modules 4–20) 10 clues · Naming worksheets consistently, Header labels for rows and columns, Relative and absolute cell references, The COUNTIF function and more
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VCE Spreadsheets, SQL & Visualisation Crossword: Descriptive statistics and Manipulating, validating and testing spreadsheet data (Modules 21–34) 10 clues · Grouping numbers into bins with COUNTIFS, The STDEV.S function, Interpreting standard deviation, Cleaning text with TRIM, UPPER and PROPER and more
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VCE Spreadsheets, SQL & Visualisation Crossword: Manipulating, validating and testing spreadsheet data and Relational database structure (Modules 35–44) 10 clues · Pivot tables, What is a relational database?, What a single-table database is, Database field data types and more
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VCE Spreadsheets, SQL & Visualisation Crossword: Relational database structure and Querying data with SQL (Modules 45–54) 10 clues · Importing a CSV file into a database table, Validation rules on database fields, SQL constraints for validation, What a database query is and more
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VCE Spreadsheets, SQL & Visualisation Crossword: Querying data with SQL to Purposes and types of data visualisations (Modules 55–70) 10 clues · SQL GROUP BY, SQL JOIN across two tables, SQL UPDATE and DELETE, Testing a query against the data and more
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VCE Spreadsheets, SQL & Visualisation Word Search: Spreadsheet structure, formulas and functions to Manipulating, validating and testing spreadsheet data (Modules 4–34) 20 words to find · Naming worksheets consistently, Header labels for rows and columns, Relative and absolute cell references, The COUNTIF function and more
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VCE Spreadsheets, SQL & Visualisation Word Search: Manipulating, validating and testing spreadsheet data to Querying data with SQL (Modules 35–54) 20 words to find · Pivot tables, What is a relational database?, What a single-table database is, Database field data types and more
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VCE Spreadsheets, SQL & Visualisation Word Search: Querying data with SQL to Visualisation components and design conventions (Modules 55–86) 20 words to find · SQL GROUP BY, SQL JOIN across two tables, SQL UPDATE and DELETE, Testing a query against the data and more
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VCE Software Development U3O1 Crossword: Data sources and files to Graphical user interfaces (Modules 114–124) 10 clues · Reading an XML file with ElementTree, Validation: why data is checked on entry, Types of validation check, Existence checking in code and more
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VCE Software Development U3O1 Word Search: Data sources and files to Object-oriented programming (Modules 114–141) 20 words to find · Reading an XML file with ElementTree, Validation: why data is checked on entry, Types of validation check, Existence checking in code and more
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VCE Data Analytics U3O1 Crossword: Sourcing, validating and referencing data to Statistical analysis of data (Modules 50–91) 10 clues · Setting spreadsheet data validation rules, Removing duplicate rows, Handling missing values, Converting text to numbers and fixing date formats and more
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VCE Data Analytics U3O1 Word Search: Data types and relational databases to Statistical analysis of data (Modules 17–91) 20 words to find · Field sizes, SQL column data types and sizes, One-to-many relationships between tables, Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT in a WHERE clause and more
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Crossword: Data compression to Acquiring, storing and validating data (Modules 17–51) 10 clues · Choosing a compression format for a task, Content, structure and presentation of a document, Restyling one document with a different stylesheet, Why separating content, structure and presentation matters and more
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Word Search: Data compression to Data privacy and the Australian Privacy Principles (Modules 6–132) 21 words to find · Redundancy: repeated data that can be shortened, Lossless compression, Lossy compression, Run-length encoding: encoding text and more

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What year level is this for?

This curriculum is aligned to the Australian Curriculum (ACARA) and Victorian Curriculum, spanning roughly Years 3 to 10 — from first sequencing and variables through to object-oriented programming and advanced data structures. Start wherever matches your class's current level; each module builds on the last.

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Is this aligned to a curriculum?

Yes — the module sequence is mapped to the Australian Curriculum (ACARA) and Victorian Curriculum, and a class's progress is reported back against those curriculum bands (e.g. ACARA Years 5–6 sequencing and iteration, Years 7–8 functions and data structures), not just a generic difficulty scale.

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