USING ICT TO DELIVER
SUBJECT SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Geography
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USING ICT TO DELIVER
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Year 1 |
Design and carry out a survey of how children come
to school. Enter the information into a data handling package. Produce
a pictogram and analyse the findings. Take the children for a walk around the local area.
On return use a simple painting program to create a picture of a building
of their favourite place in the area around the school. |
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Year 1 |
Carry out a traffic survey of the road outside the school. Enter the data into a simple graphing package and produce a pictogram. Analyse findings answering the question "Is this a busy road?" Design and carry out a survey of cars parked in the
street outside the school. Use simple graphing software to present their
results as a pictogram and analyse them. |
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Year 2 |
Using a simple painting program, create a picture
/ map of Struay Using a WP package write about the island from a visitor's
point of view, perhaps describing a route around the island. |
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Year 2 |
Design and carry out a school survey to find places
that children have visited. Enter the information into a database. Produce
graphs, search the database to answer questions and draw conclusions from
evidence. Write a report about different seaside places using
a WP package. |
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Year 1/2 |
Ask the children to produce a graph showing the number
of times Barnaby used different types of transport and find out which
type of transport he used most. Use a CD-ROM atlas suitable for young children to
investigate some of the places Barnaby visits. Scan into the computer some pictures of Barnaby bear
in some of the places he has visited. Help the children to choose and
insert one of the pictures into a WP document . Underneath the picture
produce a piece of text stating whether this place is a long way away,
whether he would have to cross the sea, rivers or mountains, or drive
along a motorway, and how best to travel to the place. |
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Year 3 |
Divide the children into groups and each ask each
group to identify land use [e.g. houses, shops, roads, services,
farmland etc.] within a small area of their locality. Collate
findings in a database and present results as bar graphs and pie charts. Communicate via e-mail with a class in a contrasting
locality who are also studying their local area. Pose questions to each
other and compile and send as attachments information on their local area
in response to questions. |
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Year 3 |
Use a variety of sources including CD-ROM or the Internet to find out about a chosen holiday destination. Imagining that they are in the holiday destination,
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. |
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Year 4 |
Use a sound sensor to measure the level of sound at different times of the day. Undertake children counts at set points around the school at different times of the day. Enter the data into a spreadsheet and produce graphs to present findings. Divide the children into small groups to investigate
litter in different areas of the school grounds with a view to finding
out if rubbish bins are used properly. Weigh the rubbish that is not in
the bins and the rubbish that is in the bins at the end of the day. Present
findings using a spreadsheet and produce graphs. Identify an area in the locality that has not been
cared for [e.g. park]. Gather evidence and discuss how it might
be improved. In groups use WP software to write a report to send to the
local authority describing how the environment is being affected and asking
if there are any plans to improve the area. |
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Year 4 Title:
Village settlers |
Present the children with a template with only a river
marked on it and a blank key at the side. 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] |
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Year 4 |
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. |
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Year 5 |
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. Discuss the patterns of water consumption and how reducing
consumption might improve the environment. |
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Year 5 |
Visit the local high street and collect data about
traffic issues [e.g. volume of traffic, parking problems, needs of
shopkeepers etc.]. On return collate data, enter it into a spreadsheet
and produce graphs to represent data. Divide the class into groups and allocate a range
of roles to each e.g. shopkeeper, parent, delivery driver etc. Ask each
group to debate the issue of traffic on the high street and arrive at
a solution. Create a multimedia presentation of the groups' views on traffic
on the high street and their solution. After each group has made its presentation
take a vote on the best plan for the high street. |
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Year 5 |
In Llandudno [or area being studied] carry
out a traffic survey at a busy and a quiet time. Ask the children to enter
their data in spreadsheet and create graphs to represent their findings. Create a multimedia presentation about Llandudno [or
area being studied] to share with other classes in the school. |
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Year 6 |
Visit the river being studied and use a digital camera
to photograph features. Visit different sections along the river course
and measure height, depth, width and speed; note human use along the river,
flow and bankside features. On return to the classroom enter the information
collected into a database and use it to find answers to simple questions. Help the children to select a river to study. Ask
them to use various sources including the Internet and CD-ROMs to research
their river. Create a multimedia presentation on their river. Follow these links to explore this topic further:
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Year 6 |
Divide the class into groups and ask each group to
research a mountain environment e.g., Himalayas, Austrian Alps, Lake
District. Use a variety of sources including the Internet and CD-ROMs
to find out where it is, what the place is like and what people do in
the area. Make a presentation of their findings to the class using ICT
where appropriate. They could create a multimedia presentation to present
their findings. |
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Year 3-6 |
Write a newspaper report on a local issue [e.g. closing
down a corner shop] using WP or DTP software. Find news items on the Internet to add to a class
newsboard. Using an object based drawing package create their own weather forecast for a different place in the world and present it. |
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Year 2 |
Use a CD-ROM to investigate the basic structure of
the eye. Carry out a survey to find out what is recycled in
their homes. Using simple graphing software enter the information and
produce graphs to find out the extent to which spectacles are recycled. Design a poster to persuade people to recycle spectacles. |
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Year 3-6 |
Use a spreadsheet to record incoming and outgoing faxes during one week. Produce graphs to represent this information and use them to analyse the data. Through twinning with another school, exchange weather data by fax or e-mail daily for a set period of time. Enter the data into a spreadsheet and produce graphs and charts to show similarities and differences between the weather in the two places. Analyse the data giving reasons for variations. Correspond by e-mail with the twinned school. Send attachments which provide inflammation about their local area e.g. photos taken with the digital camera, scanned in maps, sketches and other images, graphs and charts representing data collected in surveys, a guide to their area produced using WP, DTP or multimedia presentation software. They could pose questions to the other school about their area and send a questionnaire as an attachment. Ask them to produce an electronic address book of friends in the twinned school. Help the children to locate web sites used by travel
agents to plan routes. Ask the children to bookmark these sites, and print
or save pages that might be useful to the whole class. Enter details of
a journey and check flight, train, coach availability. Consider the range
of choices and factors to be considered when deciding how to travel to
a place. Gather information about different flights etc. and enter the
information into a database. |
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Year 4 |
Devise a questionnaire and carry out a survey to find out how people spend their time. Work out average times and convert to decimals and fractions. Using mapping software to produce a map showing the locations where they spend their time. Calculate the distances and mean distances travelled. Enter into a spreadsheet all the information gathered
on how and where they spend their time and produce graphs to represent
the data. Draw conclusions considering how they spend their time in comparison
with others. |
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Year 5 |
Having researched a local issue e.g. building a
bypass, create a multimedia presentation to present their suggestions
of how the issue can be resolved. |
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Year 3/4 |
Give the children three or four pages from the book
"Window" by Jeannie Baker. Ask them to record the main features in each
view and note the changes. Ask them to write a story for their series
of pictures focussing on change, land use and what it would feel like
to be there using WP software. Explore the area that can be seen from the classroom
window, focussing on selected features. Use a spreadsheet to classify,
store, retrieve and sort data, and to interpret the results produced.
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Year 2 |
Using a WP package write 1) a short description of
what Tocuaro is like; 2) a description of life in Tocuaro, using headings
such as houses, food, shopping and going to school; 3) a description of
their own locality using the same headings. |
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Year 5/6 |
Ask the children to use books, atlases, newspapers and the Internet to research an incident such as the collapse of the Holbeck Hotel into the sea at Scarborough in June 1993. They could then produce a newspaper report on the incident using a WP or DTP package. 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. On a field trip use a digital camera to photograph
coastal features. |
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Year 1-6 |
Take photographs using a digital camera around the local area and place them in a file on the computer. Ask the children to open the photographs and identify where they were taken. Ask the children to interview a number of people to find out about their favourite holiday location and the reasons for their choice. Ask the children to find out where the places are and to 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 adopt a city and research it using
the Internet 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. |
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Year 1-6 |
KS1: Work out the instructions for a floor
turtle to navigate a maze. Use vocabulary such as left, right, forwards,
backwards, along, clockwise, anticlockwise and right angles. Ask the children to undertake a pedestrian traffic
count in a corridor at different times during the school day. Enter the
data in a simple graphing program and produce a pictogram or simple
bar graph to represent the data. Discuss and interpret findings. 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. 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. |
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["Geography: A scheme of work for Key Stages 1 and 2" QCA 1998]
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