Taking It Further

Taking It Further

As you explore the new features of Access 2002, you will continue to think of new ways to manage information. You can try the following activities to experiment further:

Survey students at a certain grade level about the people they admire, and use Access to store that information. You can continue this process for several years to track how attitudes change over time.

A department head can create an Access database to track class resources, like books, videos, and video equipment.

In a social studies class, convert an existing Web page that contains local census data to a data access page. Students can then use the data access page from their Web browsers to find information and add it to a database they are building.

Students in an economics class can use some of the information contained in a large database to create a PivotChart view of stock market upturns and downturns over a period of time.

Students in a chemistry class can draw correlations between tables in a multi-table database. They can use the primary key field to view common properties between compounds made from metals and compounds made from nonmetals.