Planning Guidance

Click on the links below to download guidance that will assist with planning for the delivery of each of the QCA teaching units.

Unit 1A – An introduction to modelling

Unit 1B - Using a word bank

Unit 1C – The information around us

Unit 1D – labelling and classifying

Unit 1E – Representing information graphically: pictograms

Unit 1F – Understanding instructions and making things happen

Unit 2A – Writing stories: communicating information using text

Unit 2B – Creating pictures

Unit 2C – Finding information

Unit 2D – Routes: controlling a floor turtle

Unit 2E – Questions and answers

Unit 3A – Combining text and graphics

Unit 3B – Manipulating sound

Unit 3C – Introduction to databases

Unit 3D – Exploring simulations

Unit 3E – E-mail

Unit 4A – Writing for different audiences

Unit 4B – Developing images using repeating patterns

Unit 4C – Branching databases

Unit 4D – Collecting and presenting information: questionnaires and pie charts

Unit 4E – Modelling effects on screen

Unit 5A – Graphical modelling

Unit 5B – Analysing data asking questions using complex searches

Unit 5C – Evaluating information, checking accuracy and, questioning plausibility

Unit 5D – Introduction to spreadsheets

Unit 5E – Controlling devices

Unit 5F – Monitoring environmental conditions and changes

Unit 6A – Multimedia presentation

Unit 6B – Spreadsheet modelling

Unit 6C – Controlling and monitoring – What happens when…?

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