Table builder
Use the tools to make your table look exactly like the one you are shown.
Table 1 of 6
Another pupil has joined. Add a row at the bottom of the table.
Your table: tap cells to choose them
Make it look like this
| Name | Snack |
| Nila | Mango |
| Omar | Banana |
What the words mean
- Row: goes across the table, from side to side.
- Column: goes down the table, from top to bottom.
- Cell: one box in the table, where a row and a column meet.
- Merge: combine two or more cells into one.
- Split: break a cell into more cells.
- Borders: the lines in and around a table.
For teachers
This tool goes with Unit 2, Lessons 3 and 4 of the Year 4 Inspire Computing student book. It is for practising the words and the ideas. Pupils still need to make tables in a real word processor, as the book's activities ask.
- Before the screen: draw a grid on the floor with tape. Ask pupils to stand in a row, then in a column, then in one cell.
- Differences from a word processor: pupils do not type in the cells here, and only a merged cell can be split. A word processor can split any cell.
- Exit question: draw a table with three columns and two rows, then shade one row.
- Nothing a pupil does here is saved or sent anywhere.
More to try
- In a word processor, make a table of your friends' favourite colours.
- Make a table of the critical questions you use to check a web page.