ICT Curriculum years 5-6-7-8

ICT Year 5
Curriculum
Semester 1
*Working with text
• Opening & saving files
• Cut, copy & paste features
• Using Clip art
• Heading styles
• Wrapping Text
• Using Bullet points
• Making a bullet point list
• Inserting Tables
• Merging more than one file

*Multimedia
• The history of film
• Understanding the ‘Shotcut’ program screen
• Planning a film (wideshots,Close ups,Cutaways,POV)
• How to make a story board
• Inserting/Trimming a video clip
• Deleting segments from a video clip
• Adjusting volume and adding music and sounds
• Achieving good balance
• Adding Transitions and visual effects
• Adding captions and credits
• Exporting your ready film
 ICT Year 6
Curriculum
Semester 1
*Working with text
• Opening & saving files
• How to use the tool bar(Bold,Italic,Underline)
• How to make a project plan (yearbook)
• Working with tables (adding rows and columns)
• Page Layout (Margins and page orientation)
• Headers, Footers and page numbers
• Text alignment
• Cropping Images
• Spelling and grammar checks

*Handling Data
• Data Tables
• Formatting cells as a data table
• How to sort a data table
• Adding filters
• How to validate data
• Checking for errors
• Adding list validation
• Using lists for data entry
• Adding formulas
• Formatting fields as currency
• Logical tests and the IF formula
 ICT Year 7
Curriculum
Semester 1
*ICT in everyday life
• Presenting Information using text,images and
sound
• Designing slides
• Working with networked computers
• Collecting content for a presentation
• Plagiarism
• Good and bad slides
• Building the structure of a presentation
• Animation schemes

*Adding graphics to slides

• Choosing appropriate images
• Finding images online
• Adding images to slides
• Enhancing images
• Adding sound to a presentation
• Colours and their respective message
• Colour combinations
 ICT Year 8
Curriculum
Semester 1
*Weather Systems (Public Info Systems)
• Weather systems key information
• Ways of presenting weather data/information
• Presenting weather statistics using graphs and
charts
• Modern weather stations
• Sources of weather data
• Importing data into a spread sheet
• Importing data from a website into the input
worksheet
• Creating a process sheet
• Creating an output sheet
• Automating processes for simple Info Processing
systems
• Updating data on input, output and process
worksheets
• Evaluating Public information systems
• Criteria for evaluation
• Creating our own public info system