Databases and Interpreting Information As users, pupils can interpret databases that have been created for them, e.g. a census data file or create databases using information linked to a period from the National Curriculum programme of study. Data handling activities should build in opportunities for asking as well as answering questions. A good way of gathering information to enter into an historical database is to devise (with pupils) a questionnaire that could be taken home to find out information about the recent past from older relatives. Possible topics for this might include entertainment or school life in the past. The data can then be entered into a datafile for analysis to answer questions like: What were our parents' favourite playground games? What was the most popular pop group in the 1960s or 1970s? Go to Task 3 Previous Page - Back to Top of Page - Next Page