Information and Communications Technology
A Curriculum for Excellence asks teachers to think about their educational aims and values and their classroom practice. It will give teachers more responsibility to use their professional judgement and creativity within broad parameters.
Although the 5-14 curriculum will be with us for the immediate future, use this short Reflection Guide to help you think about adapting your classroom practice in accordance with the principles and purposes of A Curriculum for Excellence.
Investigating internet safety
Using activities on the NetSmartz website and Disney online, Primary 6 pupils investigate internet safety and make a PowerPoint presentation about what they've learnt.
Editing photos and text with Appleworks
To get information to their twinned school these Primary 5 pupils use Appleworks software to make a web page with digital photographs, and text in different sizes, fonts and colours.
Movie and sound files in World War II presentations
Primary 6 and 7 pupils create PowerPoint presentations about the Home Front in World War II, learning how to add movie and sound files.
Making a database of Scottish monarchs
Primary 6 pupils create a database of the kings and queens of Scotland using AppleWorks 6. Adding the dates for each monarch, they can calculate how long they reigned.
Designing healthy eating posters
Using digital photos of the fruit trees they grew in the school grounds, pupils from Primary 4 to Primary 6 design posters about healthy eating using Textease software.
Making greeting cards using Appleworks
For their enterprise project Primary 1 and 2 pupils designed and made greetings cards with Appleworks software.
Badges of responsibility
Primary 2 pupils at Whitfield Primary researched, designed and produced badges in a project that imaginatively combined citizenship and enterprise.
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Photo opportunites in the school grounds
A digital photo competition encourages pupils to get out and explore their school grounds.
Programming a robot with map directions
Primary 4 and Primary 5 pupils learn about coordinates, grid references, directions and compass points when they program 'Pixie', a small square robot, to go from one town to another over a map of Britain.
Classification using 'drag and drop' mouse skills
After mentally classifying buildings and rooms, these Primary 1 pupils use the mouse to 'drag and drop' images of the buildings into the correct places.
Internet challenges in modern languages
Ideas for setting internet challenges or webquests to enable pupils to expand their knowledge of modern languages.
Celebrating other cultures and nations
Pupils at Park School, Kilmarnock, held an International Day to celebrate multiculturalism. Watch the video of their activities.
Webquest geography research project
Caldervale High School's geography department worked with the Library Resource Centre to create a new group-oriented initiative for S2 pupils based on co-operative learning principles.