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ICT at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 2)

Unit 2C: Finding information
Section 6: INTEGRATED TASK

QCA

Objectives
Children should learn:
  • to use appropriate search techniques to find information
  • to use straightforward lines of enquiry

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • As part of a class project on animals that live in different environments, choose two contrasting areas, eg a pond and a field. Remind the class of the different ways of searching for information on a CD-ROM.
  • Ask the children to work in small groups to research different habitats on a CD-ROM encyclopedia. Remind the class to use the back button to retrace their steps if they get lost. Help children to copy information into a word processor and ask them to write one sentence about the animals they found. The sentence should include the key word they used.
  • Ask the class to compare searching for information on a CD-ROM with searching for information in printed encyclopedias. Ask them to consider which is quicker or more convenient.
  • use appropriate techniques and straightforward enquiries to locate information on a CD-ROM

Points to note
Search facilities vary in complexity and flexibility. Spend some time familiarising yourself with the system.

Remind the class that an advantage of using an index or menu is that they know the information is there, a key word might not be.

Children with difficulties could be given a habitat from a main menu or the index.

Children who are confident searching could be given an unusual or highly specific environment, where the key words are not obvious, eg 'recreation ground'.

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