Use Worksheet for Designing Database Record from Database Detectives Discover Democracy . Working individually, students design database record and begin to input provided data. Describing the concept of GIGO - Garbage in Garbage out, teacher models the importance of data accuracy for correct results. To insure maximum searching and sorting experience, teacher starts with the category shared by most students and works down. Understanding they must solve the problem by responding to clues left by the guilty person, they listen to the first clue - a stale piece of pizza.
Students follow teacher's detailed steps and search.
As teacher walks students through the process, they beg to search on their own by the third or fourth clue. With the discovery of the culprit, DataBase Detectives are energized and fully involved in this classroom simulation.