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ICT Opportunities and Resources
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- Use Multimap (http://www.multimap.co.uk)
find the school using the postcode. Look at aerial
photographs and identify roads and amenities with
the help of the map overlay tool. Use the web site
to find local amenities locate on the map. Plan routes
using the map
- Link with ICT unit and maths 2D
Routes: controlling a floor turtle devise
routes around a map
of the area saved as a background in a logo package.
- As part of a geography trail ask the children to
identify land use [e.g. houses, shops, roads, services,
farmland etc.] within a small area of their locality,
collate information on a walk and mark on a mop. Collate
findings in a database and present results as bar
graphs and pie charts.
- Use digital cameras to collect information about
the local area drop into word-processing packages
ready to add text.
- Use a paint package to mark on a map land usage.
- Set
up e-mail communication with a class
in a contrasting locality. Use the knowledge of their
area to ask questions about their local area.
Find a school to link with for e-mail projects: Kids'
Space Connection http://www.ks-connection.org
ICT Scheme of
Work: Unit 3E E-mail
ICT Scheme of
Work: Unit 3C Introduction to databases; Unit 4D Collecting
and presenting information: questionnaires and pie
charts
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Unit 6: Investigating Our Local Area
In which children develop geographical ideas and
skills by studying their own locality.
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- Use a variety of sources including CD-ROM or the
Internet to find out about a chosen holiday destinations
- Create a database of facts about countries: climate,
leisure activities, food, suitable clothing etc. Use
to interrogate to find holidays for specific groups
of people. Or use a travel agents web site to interrogate
their database in a similar way
- Research weather around the world using some of
the Internet resources listed below
- Imagining that they are in the chosen holiday destination,
ask the children to design and write a postcard describing
the weather conditions and leisure activities that
they experienced. They could find out the weather
conditions for particular days from the Internet.
ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 3A Combining text
and graphics
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Unit 7: Weather around the World
It helps children to develop ideas about weather
conditions around the world
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- Use sound sensors to measure sound levels at different
points in the school. Compare data at different times
of the day.
- Carry out simple surveys, count children in different
areas at different times in the day. Use a spreadsheet
to produce graphs to present their findings
Other surveys can be carried out e.g. rubbish survey.
Information on the Weight , type of rubbish and place
the rubbish was found can be collated. Information
can be displayed using a spreadsheet and producing
graphs.
ICT Scheme
of Work: Unit 4D Collecting and presenting information:
questionnaires and pie charts; Unit 5D Introduction
to spreadsheets.
- Identify an area in the locality that has not been
cared for [e.g. park, shopping center, or an area
around the school grounds]. Gather evidence including
digital photographs, record interviews using tape
recorders. Discuss how it might be improved. In groups
ask the children to word process a report about their
chosen area, describing the problems and how it can
be improved. Send final reports to local planning
office or Governors.
ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 4A Writing for
different audiences
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Unit 8: Improving the Environment
Children use the school buildings, grounds and immediate
locality to investigate environmental issues and improvements.
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Internet Resources:
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- Linked to the ICT unit graphical modelling: Give
the children a map with basic features ask the children
to create a series of OS symbols . Ask the children
to devise their own village settlement using names
and OS map symbols to represent features. Ask them
to include some specified features e.g. an area of
high ground, village pond, small housing estate. [Use
mapping or graphics software or MS word if you haven't
got suitable software]
- Investigate maps of villages on the web sites: Multimap
and Streetmaps.
Multimap allows you to also view aerial photographs
and overlay maps too
ICT Scheme of
Work: Unit 5A Graphical modelling
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Unit 9: Village Settlers
Children are introduced to how settlements develop
over time and how early settlers provided many of
the settlements we use today
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Internet Resources:
Investigate maps of villages on the web sites: Multimap
and Streetmaps.
Multimap allows you to also view aerial photographs
and overlay maps too
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- Use globes, world maps, atlases, CD-ROMs and the
Internet to locate the position of UK, Europe, Asia,
India and Chembakolli. Use a variety of resources
including the Internet to investigate the weather
and the climate of India.
- Use the Internet to gain up-to-date information
about, and images of, India. Identify and explain
the main similarities and differences between their
own locality and Chembakolli.
ICT Scheme of
Work: Unit 5B Analysing data and asking questions
using complex searches
ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 6D Using the Internet to
search large databases and to interpret information
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Unit 10: A Village in India
Children develop ideas about a less economically
developed country.
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- Ask the children to keep a diary of water use at
home for a week. Ask the children to record their
use of water in the home on a spreadsheet. Compare
the data between different houses explain why there
might be differences. Discuss the patterns of water
consumption and how reducing consumption might improve
the environment.
- Create inforamtion sheets on the different aspects
of water they have found out over the topic
ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 5D Introduction
to spreadsheets
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Unit 11: Water
Children learn about water supply around the world.
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Visit the local high street and collect data about
traffic issues [e.g. volume of traffic, parking
problems, and the different needs of various groups
e.g. shopkeepers, shoppers, businesses etc.]. Collate
the data into a spreadsheet, produce graphs and
charts to support their information and ideas
ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 4D Collecting and
presenting information: questionnaires and pie charts;
Unit 5D Introduction to spreadsheets.
- Divide the class into groups and allocate a range
of roles to each e.g. a shopkeeper, a young parent,
delivery driver etc. Carry out a survey and if possible
use a sound recorder to record interviews
Ask each group to prepare a multimedia presentation
on the issue of traffic on the high street from their
point of view.
Take a vote to determine the best plan for the high
street.
ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 4A Writing
for different audiences; Unit 6A Multimedia presentation
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Unit 12: Should the
High Street be Closed to Traffic
Focused investigation for children who have developed
fieldwork skills.
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Internet Resources:
Contact your local planning department at the local
council
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Use the Internet to research Llandudno [or area
being studied] Use Multimap. Google, Yell.com, Railtrack
or even local school web sites to help find information
about the locality. Information such as; maps, aerial
photographs, collect images and find routes to visit
the place of interest.
ICT Scheme
of Work: Unit 4D Collecting and presenting information:
questionnaires and pie charts; Unit 5D Introduction
to spreadsheets.
- If you are able to visit the
town as part of your school journey use digital camera
to record the visit (or ask a cooperative school to
send images)
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Create a multimedia presentation or an inforamtion
booklet about Llandudno [or area being studied]
to share with other classes in the school.
ICT Scheme
of Work: Unit 6A Multimedia presentation
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Unit 13: A Contrasting
UK Locality
Children study a locality in the UK that contrasts
with their own area
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Unit 14: Investigating
Rivers
Children learn, through fieldwork and research, about
rivers and the effects they have on the landscape.
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- Divide the class into small groups and ask each
group to investigate a mountain environment e.g.,
Lake District, Himalayas, Alps. Use sources like
pictures, maps from sources including the Internet
and CD-ROMs. Use the Internet to find out about weather
conditions and human activities in these areas.
- Make a presentation of their findings to the class
using ICT where appropriate. They could create a multimedia
presentation to present their findings or put information
into a prepared database
ICT Scheme
of Work: Unit 6D Using the Internet to search large
databases and to interpret information; Unit 6A Multimedia
presentation; Unit 5B
analysing data and asking questions using complex
searches
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Unit 15: The Mountain Environment
Encourages children to investigate, through research,
other places in the UK
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Unit 16: What's in the News
Shows how news items at a widening range of scales
can be used to develop geographical skills and ideas.
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Unit 18: Connecting Ourselves with the World
Shows how information and communications technology
(ICT) can be used to develop geographical skills and
ideas.
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Unit 19: How and Where do we Spend our Time
Makes the link between how and where children spend
their leisure, recreation and working time
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Internet Resources: Use local directories
to find out about leisure in your area. Local Council
web sites often have information on clubs and societies
in your area
Yell.com online yellow pages http://www.yell.com
Wokingham DC http://www.wokingham.gov.uk
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- Devise and carry out a questionnaire survey on a
local issue to establish views of different groups
e.g. building a bypass,
- Analyse the dataand use a database or spreadsheet
to organise the data
ICT Scheme of
Work: Unit 4D Collecting and presenting information:
questionnaires and pie charts; Unit 5D Introduction
to spreadsheets;
- Create a multimedia presentation or create an information
sheet to present their suggestions of how the issue
can be resolved.
ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 6A Multimedia
presentation
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Unit 20: Local Traffic- an environmental issue
Deals with a local traffic improvement scheme (a
by-pass) and the impact it will have on local people
and the environment
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- Having read the book "Window" by Jeannie Baker
Give the children three or four pages from the book
. Ask them to record the main features in each view
and note the changes.
- Using WP software write a story for a series of
pictures focussing on change, land use and what it
would feel like to be there.
ICT Scheme of Work: Unit 2A Writing
stories: communicating information using text
- Explore the area that can be seen from the classroom
window, Use a digital camera to record changes over
a period of time. Use the camera to create an annotated
display of their findings.
- Link with literacy and wordprocess their thoughts
and ideas based on the photographs
- Use a paint pacakge to make changes to a photograph
to show how the area might look in the future
- Link with ICT and Art and create patterns and repeated
images based on their original their photographs of
a view from a window from
ICT Scheme of
Work:Unit 3a combining text and graphics;
4b Developing images using repeated
patterns
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Unit 21: How can we
improve the area we can see from our window?
Shows how geography can be linked with work on language
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- Allocate the children one of the following themes:
bird watching holidays; walking holidays; beach holidays;
rock climbing holidays. Ask the children to use books,
atlases, OS maps and the Internet to research and
investigate coastal environments around UK relevant
to their theme. Recommend a possible destination and
produce an itinerary.
- If possible on a school journey use a digital camera
to photograph coastal features. Or download images
from the internet using the Google Image search.
ICT Scheme of
Work: Unit 4A Writing for different audiences
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Unit 23: Investigating
Coasts
Explores the possibilities for teaching about coastal
environments at local and regional scales
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- Use digital photographs of the local area as a
starting point for writing.
- Carry out a survey to find out about peoples favourite
holiday locations and the reasons for their choice.
Use interactive atlases and the Internet to find where
the places and what they are like. Enter their survey
findings on a database. Ask them to produce graphs
of their results and to analyse their findings.
E.g. Which factor has the most impact on a choice
of holiday?
- Ask the children to research information on a chosen
city or area use the Internet to find information.
They could record the weather in their city for a
week, record the information in a spreadsheet and
produce graphs to represent findings. They could use
a WP or DTP package to produce a report on their city,
or create a multimedia presentation and make their
presentation on their city to the class.
- Use BBC News or Newsround as a starting point for
finding differenet countries. Locate the places on
a map and use the Internet to find out more about
them
ICT Scheme of
Work: Unit 4D Collecting and presenting information:
questionnaires and pie charts; Unit 4A Writing for
different audiences; Unit 5D Introduction to spreadsheets;
Unit 6D Using the Internet to search large databases
and to interpret information
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Unit 24: Passport to
the World
Encourages the development of knowledge about places
and their locations
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- KS2: Ask the children to carry out a survey
of the journey to school, looking at where people
in the school live, how they travel to school, how
long their journey takes etc. Enter the information
gathered into a database or spreadsheet and produce
graphs to represent findings. Sort the data to answer
simple questions.
- Ask the children to study population data for two
contrasting settlements (link to contrasting area
and possible email links with another school.) They
could enter the data into a database and sort it to
help them produce a frequency table. This information
could be entered into a spreadsheet and bar charts
and pie charts produced to illustrate proportions
of population within certain age groups.
ICT Scheme of
Work: Unit 3C Introduction to databases; Unit 4D Collecting
and presenting information: questionnaires and pie
charts; Unit 5D Introduction to spreadsheets
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Unit 25: Geography and
Numbers
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