1. Year 8 ICT 2012-2013
Week No Objectives Detail Assessment Homework
1 3/9 E Safety Intro
Delete unwanted files
The Vault
Email refresh
E Safety Intro
Top 5 E safety
rules
2 10/7 E Safety Watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDycZH0CA4I
Discuss what the video tells us, and what issues it
raises
Movie maker: Create short movie using discussion
and last week’s homework listing top 5 e safety rules
3 17/7 E Safety Complete movie, adding transitions and animations.
Class vote on top 3 movies.
These will be uploaded to the vault for the whole
school to see.
Evaluation
***** this was run as a longer project last year. If
more lessons are needed, include story board etc.
Worksheet resources available.
Movie completion
/ completed
review.
4 24/7 Introduction
Logos:
Guess the logo
Watch:
History of the Pepsi logo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcnlHTBKU6A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aZUE5quxl8
(you may want to turn sound down
Pen and paper
needed to write
answers
Design
Company Name
and Logo on
paper with
pencil

2. Discuss what makes a famous logo stand out
In pairs on paint draw a famous logo: let partner
guess what it is.
Research famous logos.
Discussion
Complete
worksheet
Famous Logos
5 1/10 DTP Business
Card
Create Logo – on fireworks. Demonstrate fireworks
skills.
Create Business Card consider:
House Style
Colours
Create Business card (Use digital camera to add
photo of self)
Create Business
Card
Extension put in
picture of
yourself taken on
digital camera
6 8/10 DTP Advertising
Flyer
Create A5 Flyer to advertise New company launch
(new shop, website etc)
Create Flyer Database;
What fields
should go in a
customer
database?
7 15/10 Business
Database
Create single table customer database
Consider
Field Types validation
Populate – no more than 10 records
Database
worksheet
8 22/10 Business
Database
Simple Query
Report
Customer
database
Write letter
inviting

3. Extension: Forms / More Complex Query available if
students absent
last week
customers to
new shop
opening.
Half Term
10 5/11 Word Processing:
Mail merge
Create letter head – discuss design and house style
Show example letters
Write Letter
11 12/11 Word Processing:
Mail merge
Mail merge using last week’s database
12 19/11 Spreadsheet Spreadsheet including charts to show profit and loss
for your company
Use spreadsheet template.
Spreadsheet
Profit and Loss
template.
13 26/11 Spreadsheets Continued from last week if enough time
Customise spreadsheet, change font, background
colour, add logo to make it house style.
Spreadsheet
generic
homework task
14 3/12 Evaluation Complete Business Docs
Complete Evaluation
Complete Student Voice
Evaluation
Marksheet
15 10/12 ‘Holiday fun’ Winter animations on Monkey Jam?? / PT to trial ‘Market Place’
16 17/12
Christmas
17 7/1 Scratch
Worksheets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5x9-6pQcaM
Scratch Curriculum Guide:
Scenes
Dance Party
About me
Maze
Programming
languages
sheet from KS 3
resources
18 14/1 Plan own scratch
project
Scratch Planning sheets
Scratch Sketch Sheets
19 21/1 Create own
scratch project
Create own scratch project
20 4/2 Create own Create own scratch project; Project Project

4. scratch project Extension add another Level, Music Completion Completion
21 11/2 Print screen
project
Evaluation of own
scratch project
Print screen project
Produce
Review sheet
Student voice
Feb Half Term
22 25/2 Introduce Concept
of Ebook
What is an Ebook?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIx32azCnTk
Class discussion on advantages of EBook
Write up findings on Word
Show example Ebook – who is the audience? Peer
discussion and feedback
Think about designing own Ebook – how would you
make it appeal to children aged 5-8 years?
Advantages of
EBook on Word
Understanding of
audience through
Q and A.
Think about
Ebook story,
bring ideas to
next lesson.
22 4/3 Planning Ebook
Advanced search
Reliability /
Trustworthiness
Recap last lesson - show example Ebook
Has to be on E Safety for an audience of boys / girls/
both aged 5-8 years.
Discussion: Appropriate internet searching
Complete planning my ebook: Reserach
Task Completion Complete
Planning
worksheet
23 11/3 Design
Skills for Ebook
Complete planning my ebook: Pathways
Recap / teach Skills:
Hyperlink, Autoshape, text box Pipette colour, text
suitable for audience, removing watermarks, slide
numbers, autoshapes,
Understand a
variety of skills
needed Ebook,
evidence on
Fireworks
Complete
planning my
ebook: Pathways
24 18/3 Create Ebook Create Ebook
fill, magic want, text box rotation, send to back, flip /
mirror shape, fireworks blood, music clip, back to

5. start icon.
25 25/3 Create Ebook Create Ebook
Music and Testing Hyperlinks
Task completion Complete for
homework
Easter
26 15/4 Evaluation Complete Evaluation
Marksheet
Student voice
Complete
Evaluation
27 22/4 Overview
animation section
Intro to Google
Docs Presentation
Watch: Making of Wallace and Gromit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW5X1S6VKQ8
Create a Google Doc on ‘how to make an animation’ /
the history of animation
Add to
presentation
28 29/4
Animation on
computers
Watch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/digital-
animation-of-movement-julian-opie/8233.html
Watch: History of Pixar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYsJTJ--uoU
Complete presentation
Peer review
Presentation
Completion
29 6/5 Introduction to
Alice
Watch some example Alice animations
Complete Tutorials on Alice
Tutorial
Completion
Download Alice,
complete
tutorials if not
in class
30 13/5 Start to make own
animation on a
given theme e.g E
Safety, Online
shopping
Using skills learnt last week, storyboard an
animation. Talk through mark grid and level
information.
Once approved by teacher begin to make animation
Add detail to
storyboard

6. advantages /
disadvantages???
31 20/5 Continue and
complete
animation
Continue animation.
Use he / She Builder
Add sound
Complete
animation
Complete
animation
Half Term
32 3/6 Print screen
animation
Print screen animation, put in Word and write about.
Label sound, annotate code and include timings. 2
final paragraphs stating how the final piece differs
from the design and how it could be improved in the
future.
Complete writeup Complete
writeup
33 10/6 Self and Peer
Evaluation
Self and Peer evaluation using evaluation sheet Complete
Evaluation
Complete
Evaluation
34 17/6
35 24/6
36 1/7
37 8/7
38 15/7 Last week of term
**2 Weeks needed for Kudos- IAG, put in to Feb, meaning 2 weeks left for overlap, showcasing of work.