Finding Trends and Patterns is a Grade 6 Computer Science worksheet focused on Data and Information, helping students examine how data changes, recognize repeated or organized patterns, and use evidence to make reasonable predictions.

Build Data-Reading and Prediction Skills

Students work with the difference between a trend and a pattern. They identify increasing and decreasing trends, recognize repeated sequences and organized features in data, and consider why predictions should be based on several observations rather than a single unusual result. The reading passage reinforces that predictions are not guarantees and that new data can support, weaken, or change an earlier prediction.

What Students Practice

• Identifying trends that show a general direction of change over time
• Recognizing repeated or organized patterns in data
• Distinguishing trends from patterns using examples
• Using evidence from several observations to make reasonable predictions
• Explaining how new observations can affect a prediction

The worksheet uses a dialogue, matching activity, cloze passage, labeled diagram, informational reading passage, multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short-answer questions, and an extended-response question. Students apply the concepts to examples such as computer lab usage and numerical sequences, giving them opportunities to interpret data rather than simply recall definitions.

Teacher Support Included

A separate Teacher Guide PDF is included with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes. These teacher-facing notes provide practical support for introducing the concepts, guiding classroom discussion, and addressing likely misunderstandings about trends, patterns, and evidence-based predictions.

Classroom Use

Use this resource for Computer Science instruction on data and information, guided practice, independent work, review, or a lesson activity focused on interpreting data. The reading and follow-up questions give students a connected context for comparing trends and patterns, while the written responses encourage them to explain their reasoning with evidence.

By connecting data interpretation with prediction, this resource gives Grade 6 learners practice with an important data-literacy skill: looking beyond individual values to identify meaningful changes, repeated structures, and evidence that can support a reasonable conclusion.