Total coverage of the curriculum for KS3 and KS4 ICT
Exciting, up-to-date ICT resources fully cover the KS3 and KS4 curriculum in over 1,500 PowerPoint slides. To read a review of Boardworks KS3+KS4 ICT, visit the Case Studies page or download this PDF: www.boardworks.co.uk/media/b24ccdaf/ICTgoodies.pdf
- 46 KS3 presentations offer comprehensive coverage of the KS3 ICT Programme of Study.
- KS4 ICT has been fully updated for the 2010 GCSE specifications, providing extensive coverage of the AQA, OCR, Edexcel, CCEA and WJEC exam boards, as well as the IGCSE specifications from Edexcel and Cambridge.
- KS4 ICT offers support for Controlled Assessment and is mapped to Functional Skills standards.
Well-organised resources for whatever you’re teaching
Boardworks presentations are coherently structured and enhanced by a wealth of material to ensure you get the most out of your lessons. This slide organises examples of publications from several genres into one slide, saving you hours of preparation time.
- Clearly defined learning objectives at the beginning of every presentation enable you to convey the aims of each lesson to your class in a straightforward way.
- Detailed, printable contents documents serve as handy reference guides and help you organise your lessons with ease.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are ready-to-teach and contain a wide variety of resources, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. Interactive tasks, like this one asking students to brainstorm ideas for a new computer game called 'Phi Phi Island', encourage creativity.
- Exciting multimedia material creates variety and interest in lessons.
- Innovative case studies allow students to travel beyond the classroom walls and see how ICT is used in the world around them.
Inspiringly interactive
Designed specifically for your interactive whiteboard, the presentations let you explore ICT in a unique, engaging and stimulating way. In this social networking activity, students discuss various scenarios, deciding how they would advise a friend who is having difficulty managing her online social life.
- Inspire your students with detailed animations and interactive tasks.
- Encourage class discussion and debate using voting charts, true-or-false activities and drag-and-drop exercises.
- Enhanced podcasts in the KS4 product cater for aural and visual learners.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Introduce your class to key applications of ICT in day-to-day life with visually-appealing interactive activities. In this slide, students' knowledge is consolidated through this multi-step animation about the use of procedures in testing a system that runs a water ride.
- Important ideas are presented in ways which are easy to understand and simple to recall.
- Complex concepts are reinforced through fun quizzes and games, which encourage and motivate students.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks ICT you can easily tailor the resources to the needs of your students. This slide about recording data can be edited by changing the text to suit different abilities or by substituting in a different graph.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Exercises and activities can be used flexibly to support your own teaching methods and meet the different abilities and learning needs of your students.
Additional teaching support
Boardworks ICT contains numerous additional features to enhance your lessons in a multitude of ways. Printable and editable worksheets like these accompany the slides, with differentiated questions allowing you to cater your lessons to the needs and abilities of your students.
- Detailed teacher’s notes throughout the presentations provide suggested answers to questions posed, and ideas for extension activities.
- Relevant web links are included, enabling you to extend your lessons and supplement them with even more real-life examples.
- An editable Functional Skills spreadsheet helps you keep track of the functional elements covered in each of your lessons.
Engaging summary material
Finish your lessons with interesting and varied plenaries, like this health and safety game. Each domino is marked with a health and safety issue and a different solution. Students must match each issue to the correct solution, so that the dominoes form a chain.
- End-of-topic tasks, multiple-choice exercises and evaluative games test students’ overall understanding of the subject.
- Summary slides reiterate key terminology and review processes learned.
- Exam-style questions and suggested answers in KS4 ICT help you assess students' knowledge.
