QCA Key Stage 3 ICT Scheme of Work

 

(Full document can be downloaded from:

http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/secondary_ICT/)

 

Year

Module

Title

Hours

Suggested Software

7

ICT1

Using ICT

4

Powerpoint

 

ICT2

Information and Presentation

5

Internet Explorer; Word; Powerpoint

 

ICT3

Processing Text and Images

7

Publisher; Word;

 

ICT4

Models: rules and investigations

5

Excel; Word

 

ICT5

Designing structure, capturing and presenting data

6

Datapower (Iota Software Ltd)/Access; Word

 

ICT6

Control: input, process and output

5

Visual Control (Camboard Technologies)/Control Insight (Logotron)/Flowol (Data Harvest)

 

ICT7

Measuring physical data

4

Ecolog (Data Harvest)

 

 

 

 

 

8

ICT8

Public information systems

7

Powerpoint; Internet Explorer; (Automatic weather station available from The Advisory Unit, Computers in Education, if required)

 

ICT9

Publishing on the web

7

Internet Explorer; Dreamweaver/Frontpage2000  (+ Flash for animation)

 

ICT10

Information: reliability, validity and bias

7

Internet Explorer; Powerpoint

 

ICT11

Data: use and misuse

3

No computer access required

 

ICT12

Systems: integrating data to find solutions

12

All of the above; email with address book facility; vector and bitmap  graphics

 

 

 

 

 

9

ICT13

Control systems

10

Control Insight/Flowol; Powerpoint

 

ICT14

Global communication: negotiating and transferring data

10

Email;  Datapower/Access; Word

 

ICT15

Systems: managing a project

10

A variety of tools appearing above