Data Science for Kids

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Facts and numbers around us
• Types of data
• Why data matters

🎬 Animated demo

Everyday things turn into rows of data.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Data around me list
• Class favourite-fruit survey

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Surveys and questions
• Measurements
• Fair and honest data

🎬 Animated demo

Survey answers come in and each fruit’s bar grows with every vote.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Class survey
• Weather measurement week

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Rows and columns
• Sorting and grouping
• Clean data

🎬 Animated demo

Messy notes become a neat, sorted table.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Class data table
• Sports scores table

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Comparing with bars
• Parts of a whole with pies
• Choosing the right chart

🎬 Animated demo

Survey numbers grow into bars and slices.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Favourite-sport chart
• Pocket-money pie chart

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Change over time
• Rising and falling trends
• Reading graphs

🎬 Animated demo

Temperature readings climb to a peak in the afternoon, then fall.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Daily temperature graph
• Plant growth graph

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Finding the middle
• Which average to use
• Range and spread

🎬 Animated demo

Numbers line up and the average balances them.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Class height average
• Cricket batting average

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Sensors record data automatically
• Readings over time
• Saving and exporting data

🎬 Animated demo

A sensor logs a reading every minute onto a graph.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Room temperature logger
• Light level through the day

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Cells, rows and columns
• Simple formulas
• Charts from spreadsheets

🎬 Animated demo

Change the marks and watch the total, average and chart update.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Budget sheet
• Marks calculator

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Spotting patterns and outliers
• Comparing groups
• Correlation basics

🎬 Animated demo

Compare rising, falling and scattered patterns, and spot an odd reading.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Sleep vs marks study
• Rain vs plant growth

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Using trends to predict
• Good and bad predictions
• How AI uses data

🎬 Animated demo

Slide the day forward and the growth trend predicts the plant’s height.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Predict next week’s temperature
• Guess-the-score game

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Choosing the key message
• Clear charts and titles
• Presenting findings

🎬 Animated demo

A plain table becomes a clear story with one chart.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• Data poster
• One-minute data talk

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Ask a question
• Collect, analyse and chart
• Present your answer

🎬 Animated demo

A question leads to data, charts and a clear answer.

🛠️ Project & application ideas

• School water use study
• Traffic outside school study (final project)