A bundle of resources to teach all of the skills required to pass ECDL Microsoft Word. Also includes an example test with files and lots of revision activities for your quick finishers.

Useful for BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate Unit 3 - Personal finance but can be used for many other units of work. Includes key words, discussion, activities, extended writing task, revision notes. In detail, this lesson covers: A Understand the importance of managing personal finance A1 Functions and role of money The ability to handle money received, and to control money paid, is a fundamental requirement for personal and business success. This success relies on understanding what ‘money’ is. • Functions of money: o unit of account o means of exchange o store of value o legal tender.

Whole lessons, PowerPoints, activities and resources to teach basic Excel Skills and Spreadsheet modelling. Useful for both KS3 and KS4 beginners-intermediate. Previously used to teach ECDL, KS3 ICT and GCSE ICT

A look at how to create tables and charts in Excel. All: Present information as a table(Level 4c) Most: Present information as a chart (Level 4b/4a) Some: Justify choices of chart (Level 5c) Used previously for KS3 and KS4 ICT. Can be adapted to fit any scheme of work involving spreadsheets.

Whole lessons which can be adapted to fit any ICT scheme of work for year 7 or 8 and may be suitable for low ability year 9 groups. Covers: Basic Skills Control Internet Safety Finding Information

Suitable for use as a lesson, handouts and support for practical work. Details camera angles, movement, shot types and editing techniques. Includes examples for each. Practical task involves students making their own Camerawork presentation with their own examples and explanations.

A project based scheme of work which has pupils investigating and researching types of digital graphics before designing and creating their own. The theme is horror films which has proven to be very popular with our pupils and can be easily scaled up or down in terms of complexity for different year groups. Suitable for a fun and engaging KS3 or year 9 scheme of work for ICT or computing and digital media. This is excellent preparation for digital media based courses such as the OCR Creative iMedia and units such as R082 : Creating Digital Graphics. Pupils will need access to a digital graphics editing software such as Photoshop or an onlinefree version.

A fun lesson to teach these advanced Excel skills. Comes with video tutorials so students can complete independently. Previously used for ECDL, KS3 and KS4 ICT.

A collection of lessons, activities, videos, tasks and engaging examples to teach students about representation in the media.

Whole lesson covering History and Purposes of music videos. Includes examples from 1960-2018, Video links, Discussion points, textual information, written tasks and extended writing opportunity.

An introduction to using spreadsheets in Excel. Objectives covered: All: Will be able to identify the uses of basic functions in Excel Most: Will be able to use basic functions in Excel (+ - / *) Some: Will be able to use more advanced functions in Excel (SUM, MIN, MAX, AVERAGE) Includes video walk through for the whole lesson so students can complete completely independently. Suitable for both KS3 and KS4 ICT.

A project based scheme of work which has pupils investigating and researching types of videogames before designing and creating their own game concept which they can pitch to groups. The tasks include Challenge prompts and can be easily scaled up or down in terms of complexity for different year groups. Suitable for a fun and engaging KS3 or year 9 scheme of work for ICT or computing and digital media. This is excellent preparation for digital media based courses such as the OCR Creative iMedia and units such as R091 : Designing a Game Concept Pupils will need access to PowerPoint or Google Slides to complete the activities

A pack of lessons, resources, presentations, activities and assessments for the Media Studies Topic Television News. Previously used to teach AQA exam topic, but can be adapted to be incorporated into any media scheme of work. Covers the four key media concepts within the topic of TV News: Audience, Representation, Media Language, Institution. Also used in conjunction with BBC School Report.

Covers a range of Excel skills such as Sort/filter Renaming/arranging worksheets Formatting cells Has videos and a task for each skill

A selection of lessons including video clips, discussions and activities. Previously used to teach Media Studies AS Level OCR exam Section A. This is still relevant. Can easily be adapted to teach GCSE and A Level media studies lessons to introduce ways of representation. May also be useful to teach AQA GCSE Media Studies Unit 1 - TV Serial Dramas.

An ideal first lesson to introduce the subject or topic surrounding computing, computer science or computational thinking. -Computational Thinking -Introduction to Flowchart design Complete with information slides, activities, starter and plenary. Suitable for a 1 hour lesson.

A bundle of sample assessments to teach all of the skills required to pass ECDL Improving Productivity.