ICT - KS2 - Year 6

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Unit 6A Multimedia presentation

In this unit children learn to create a multimedia presentation using text, images, and sounds. They will be taught to create links between pages and show sensitivity to the needs of their audience. Children will apply what they have learnt in this unit when communicating and presenting information in music, art, history, geography, science, design and technology.

Discuss the difference between a CD-ROM and books and videos, and demonstrate that a CD-ROM includes a range of media and offers the user different options to address the needs of different audiences.

Sources of sound

Talking book in Publisher

Multimedia presentation

Eye write

Demonstrate how to record sounds using a microphone and how to create a button which plays the sounds.

Animation ideas

Stick figures

Fluxtime

Windows sound recorder

Demonstrate how buttons can create links between pages.

Presentation on River Thames

Using a calculator

Photo library

Creating web pages

Unit 6B Spreadsheet modelling

In this unit children learn to use a spreadsheet to explore a mathematical model. Children will be taught to use formulae in spreadsheets to answer 'what if ...?' questions. They will explore how changes in a spreadsheet affect results and identify simple rules. Children will apply what they have learnt in this unit when exploring mathematical and scientific models.

Show how to copy fomulae from one cell to another. Ask the children to create a set of multiplication tables 

Spreadsheet formulae

Orange spreadsheets

2,3 and 4 times table

Fruit spreadsheet

How to create graphs using a spreadsheet.

Grid a

Grid b

Grid ext

Using Excel and creating graphs

Use a spreadsheet to set up formulae. Look at a graph of the areas to see where the maximum point is.

Spreadsheet recognition

Ideas for using Excel

Auction and spreadsheet

Unit 6C Control and monitoring. What happens when......?

In this unit children learn how to use input devices or switches to control a process. They learn that it is possible to attach devices such as pressure pads, light sensors, magnetic switches, on/off switches or other devices to a control box. The computer can then be programmed to carry out a process when it detects some sort of change, eg switch on the light when it gets dark. They learn the new control language necessary to program the control box to make such decisions, eg 'if... then...'

Discuss with the class how a variety of cause and effect devices work, eg central heating, security lights, road lights, supermarket freezers. .  

Unit 6C Control and monitoring

Traffic light game

Traffic light simulation

Insight ilog junior

Design a simple lighthouse using a bulb, a cardboard tube and a light sensor & write a procedure to make the lightbulb flash every second.

Robot on line

Virtual model

Mission control

Exploring and controlling simulations

Unit 6D Using the internet to search large databases and to interpret information

In this unit children learn to use large sources of information, such as those found on the internet. They will use, skim read and take in information to be able to own it for themselves and interpret it with others. At times they will be critical of content and may be able to check for different viewpoints. Children will present the researched information in a form suitable to the needs of their audience. It is important that teachers search the internet first for suitable sites. Without this, children can spend many hours in fruitless searching, without any reward.

Provide a range of short articles. e.g magazines with topics or print a page from the internet. Use an appropriate URL from the favourites list to find their information.

Copying and pasting from the internet

Using the internet as an information database

Searching

Greek history search

Use one search engine to demonstrate searching. Print and sift using a highlighter. Discuss the children's findings.

Comparing websites

Schools Wikipedia

Internet search engines

British Museum site

Demonstrate how to find information using links rather than searches.
Demonstrate how to bookmark favourite sites to save the URL.

Cybersmart internet searching

Using websites

BBC information

Adding pages to your favourites

Demonstrate entering the name to find the site. Demonstrate the use of right click to copy pictures. Discuss why some pictures only copy the location and not the picture.

Internet Explorer icons

Copy and paste a picture from the internet

Cyber cafe

Using the internet for research