Making things happen
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Exchanging and Sharing
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Raise Awareness of Everyday Technology
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Concepts
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Concepts
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Concepts
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Children will:
- Understand that technology can be used to control events
- Understand that technology is itself controlled by
instructions
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Children will:
- Understand that ICT can be used as a tool for
recording and presenting information
- Know that technology can be used to share information
- Know that messages can be sent by phone, text,
walkie-talkie, video etc.
- Know that text can be entered using a keyboard
- Understand what an icon is
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Children :
- Understand that technology is ‘things that need to be
plugged in and work from electricity’ or ‘things that need a
battery to work’
- Understand that technology is ‘things that you turn on and
off and give instructions to’
- Understand that technology can make some tasks easier
- Know the names of items of everyday technology
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Processes
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Processes
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Processes
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Children will:
- Explore the links between actions and events
- Describe the links between actions and events
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Children will:
- Use to technology to communicate with people who are
not nearby
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Children will:
- Identify uses of everyday technology
- Watch technology in operation
- Model the use of technology in Role Play
- Talk about technology
- Compare an activity using technology to one without
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Technical
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Technical
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Opportunities to identify everyday technology
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Children will:
- Operate remote control toys
- Control programmable toys
- Operate technological appliances
- Access a CD Rom and make on-screen choices
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Children will:
- Use a mouse to click, double-click and drag
- Create an image using a paint program
- Use a digital camera to take a photograph
- Use a tape recorder to record and playback sound
- View an object through a digital microscope
- print their work
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These will include:
- Technology trails, where children are encouraged to find and
record on a digital camera all the technology resources within
the setting
- Tours of the school office to observe and talk about all the
technology appliances that are used
- Technology walks around the local area, where children are
asked to talk about traffic lights, telephones, security alarms
and barcode scanners in shops
- technology collages, where children create a collages of
technology appliances from magazine pictures
- Video programmes to show uses of technology
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Resources
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Resources
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Resources
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- Remote control toys
- Programmable toys e.g. pixie beebot
- Supermarket door opening
- Washing machine / microwave
- CD ROMs Leaps and bounds 'At the'... series
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- Paint packages,such as: Fresco, Colour Magic, Painter
- Clicker 5,
- Word
- Digital camera
- Tape recorder I
- nternet
- Interactive Whiteboard
- Web cam
- CCTV
- Musical keyboard
- Telephone
- Walkie-talkies
- Interactive texts
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- Cash machine
- Cash register with barcode scanner
- Telephone, answer machine, fax
- Tape recorder, CD player, mp3 player
- Television, video player, dvd player
- Washing machine, refrigerator, cooker, microwave
- Scanner, photocopier
- Camera, digital camera, video camera
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