Short Term Lesson Plans and Resources

Click on the links below to download lesson plans and lesson resourrces that will assist with planning and 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