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ICT Curriculum Team T î m Scheme of Work for Information Communication Technology Cwricwlwm ICT year 4 TGC Unit: Create and Communicate

Overview of this Unit: In this unit children will Save, Retrieve, Edit and Re-save work independently, understanding the importance of saving work regularly and can navigate to folders to use shared resources. They will develop Desktop Publishing skills using different editing tools to highlight, edit, justify text and insert images to enhance their documents and evaluate and refine their work. Children will use Copy and Paste techniques to improve text and develop their work and can plan and create Electronic books by linking pages together.

They will understand the importance of entering correct e-mail addresses and can create and respond to e-mails and include attachments. The pupils will understand that different file types can be used as attachments, such as pictures and documents and know how to remain safe online.

Expectations at the end of this unit: Most pupils will be able to: Save, Retrieve, Edit and Re-save work independently. They can use features of a Desktop Publishing package to plan, refine and edit their work and use Copy and Paste techniques to enhance their work. They can plan a simple E-book and link pages together. They know the importance of correct e-mail addresses and can create and respond to e-mails including attachments and know how to remain safe online.

Some pupils will only be able to. Save, Retrieve, Edit and Re-save work with assistance. They will be able to use some features of a Desktop Publishing package to edit their work using basic editing tools. They may need support and encouragement to Copy and Paste resources into their work and help to link pages together. They know the importance of correct e-mail addresses and can create and respond to e-mails with assistance. They can talk about how to remain safe online.

Some pupils will also be able to: Save, Retrieve, Edit and Re-save work independently and navigate with ease to central resources to include a range of file types in their work. They will be able to use a broad range of editing tools in a Desktop Publishing package to refine and edit their work and demonstrate confidence to move or rearrange text and insert images using Copy and Paste techniques as they plan, evaluate and edit their work. They know the importance of correct e-mail addresses and can create and respond to e-mails containing attachments in different file formats. They will know how to remain safe online.

Year 4 Create and Communicate Information E-mailing and E-books Teacher Assessment: The skills demonstrated by the children should form part of continuous assessment. Tracking and recording pupil’s progress should be done in line with the school’s assessment policy and used to inform future planning. Recording sheets are provided for schools who wish to use them as part of this Scheme of Work. E-mailing

E-mail Scheme of Work for Information Communication Technology Discuss different Children discuss a variety of ways that E-mail Email Browser ways information information can be communicated electronically. can be The discussion should be used to draw on the Electronic Yr 4 Health, Safety & communicated children’s existing knowledge and experiences communication Child protection of e-mail, mobile phones, use of webcams etc. and stimulate a debate which focuses on their Webcam CBBC stay safe safe use of electronic communication. Newsround – safe Know how to e- Safe use of e-mail will be taught and rules for surfing mail safely acceptable use reinforced. Reasons for the rules should be made clear to the children and they should know that it is unsafe to respond to e- mails from unknown sources or to give out personal details. Create and Pupils will be reminded of the features within an Email Browser Email Browser respond to e-mails email browser and discuss the different storage Email Address and use the Inbox, areas (Inbox, Outbox, Sent items) and know how @ Sent Items, these are used. Inbox Outbox and Delete Outbox folders Sent Items Send and Receive Deleted Items

Create and send They will be reminded of the need to enter e- New Message Email Browser an e-mail using the mail addresses accurately and learn how to use Message To: address book the ‘message To:’ field to access the address Reply Prepared address book. Subject book Address book Prepare an address book with a number of e- mail addresses. Remind the children that (All or some of these could accurate addresses ensure that e-mails are apply depending on content, received by the correct person. Stress the subject matter and organisation importance of the need for accuracy in entering of the e-mails. Add or delete an address. This could be demonstrated by icons as appropriate.) sending an e-mail to the class computer with a keying error in the address. The children would see that they would get a returned mail message telling them the email address was incorrect. © Curriculum ICT Team 2008. Education Effectiveness Service Remind them that they can check their Sent box to view the record of mail sent. Scheme of Work for Information Communication Technology EXTENSION WORK Differentiated activities and opportunities to further develop learning and teaching within this unit. Create & Children can imagine that they are acting as the Vocabulary Communicate school/class secretary. A sample of emails can Email be given to them which are unsuitable for the @ intended audience. Inbox E-mail Outbox e.g. children adapt a notice about a school Sent Items disco to make it suitable for children Send and Receive Can change the Deleted Items (All or some of these could apply content of an email or Reply depending on content, subject matter New Message and organisation of the e-mails. Add or or attachment after delete icons as appropriate.) giving thought to An email to a councillor/AM about a local issue, Attachment the recipient written in informal language. Children adapt it Subject into more appropriate form using standard Send /receive English. Assessment or Pupils can: Discuss different ways Children are given a notice in Welsh which they information can be communicated can translate into English/ adapt , creating a bi- Know how to e-mail safely lingual document so that all children/ parents Create and respond to e-mails can understand the notice. using the address book Send a picture or file as an attachment Send a document as an attachment

Resources Email Browser Sample documents for editing

© Curriculum ICT Team 2008. Education Effectiveness Service E-books Save, Retrieve, Children should be taught skills and given ample Word Processing Word processing and Edit Work Schemeopportunities of Work for Informationto create new Communication documents Technology and Document package / DTP independently Save and Retrieve work independently using File package relevant folders. They should be encouraged to New use a range of editing tools to refine their work. Save as Save They should also navigate to central resource Close (All or some of these could areas to insert a variety of file types into their Open apply depending on content, work. subject matter and organisation of the e-mails. Add or delete icons as appropriate.)

Copy and Paste Children build on previous experience and learn Copy Internet images and text how to copy text and images from a website, Paste Desk top Publishing e.g. find 5 facts about a topic and paste a Package relevant picture. Word Processor Prepared newspaper Children use the Newsround website and grid choose a story. Using a newspaper grid, they (All or some of these could select and enter a headline, copy and paste the apply depending on content, text from the website and add appropriate subject matter and organisation images. of the e-mails. Add or delete icons as appropriate.)

Use images to Children should insert images into their work Word Processor Word processing illustrate their from a variety of sources. This can be achieved Document package / DTP work. through a number of methods including: Website package Drive: Inserting image files from a folder (scanned or New digital photographs) Save as Copy and pasting from the Internet or from Save (All or some of these could within a document Close apply depending on content, Inserting from a clipart bank or resource area Load/ Retrieve subject matter and organisation Insert of the e-mails. Add or delete Graphics icons as appropriate.) Begin to consider Children consider a range of different layouts of Rotate Bank of images and appropriate choice information such as: Overlap resources for children of layout and Various documents using ICT features Higher to use styles Books, magazines and printed texts Lower Group DTP package/ Rotate, group and A picture bank could be created using, digital Word processor overlap images in photographs of the area, images saved out from © Curriculum ICT Team 2008. Education Effectiveness Service the correct order the Internet, scanned images from leaflets etc. (All or some of these could Scheme of Work for Information Communication Technology EXTENSION WORK Differentiated activities and opportunities to further develop learning and teaching within this unit. Create and Activity Vocabulary Communicate Children who find linking difficult can use a Slide show or New, Save as, Save, Open, Load Presentation style software to create a linear book without Folder, File needing to create individual page links. They can be helped to Hyperlink, Hot spot, Page links Plan and include a hyperlink to practice the skill of linking from an Electronic book, E-book create an appropriate page to an existing file. Cut, Copy, Paste, Clipboard E-book Highlight, Right click Children can work collaboratively to plan and decide on the Icons, Objects (All or some of these could layout of their e-book as part of a small group activity. Then Assessment apply depending on they can work on their own page or section individually and Pupils can: content, subject matter later work together to link them as a collaborative e-book. Plan and create an electronic book and organisation of the e- mails. Add or delete icons They can research and give information about a non-fiction Organise files appropriately as appropriate.) topic, tell a well known story, create an e-book for younger Create hyperlinks to appropriate children or create an e-book through the medium of Welsh. pages Or Reference any website used for Work with pupils from a different school using e-mail to plan research and create a collaborative e-book. The first pages can be Edit, revise and evaluate work created and sent via e-mail to another group of children in another school who will continue the book (e.g. chain story Depending on finished file format, writing). They can create some pages and e-mail them back size and software used, it’s possible and so on. Later the pages can be linked to create the that their finished e-book could be finished book in each school. sent as an e-mail attachment

If file size or format allows, the finished story can then be e- Resources mailed to the Headteacher / ICT teacher / Teacher advisor Word processing package / DTP etc. package / Slide show or Presentation software More able children can be shown how to organise files within Internet the folder to include videos, sounds etc to be linked to or Storyboard, Flow chart for planning inserted into their e-books. The finished e-books will be large Central bank of images files so this could lead to a discussion on their unsuitability for e-mail.