Complete support for OCR Level 2 Nationals in ICT Units 1 and 21
Explore OCR Level 2 Nationals in ICT with comprehensive and varied teaching material, like this interactive quiz on Internet searching.
- Fully updated for the new 2010 specifications, Boardworks OCR Level 2 Nationals in ICT provides extensive coverage of Units 1 and 21 of the qualification.
- The wealth of material contained in each presentation enables you to explore and teach the short course award in detail.
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. Typical slides, like this one on copying a screen, combine the main points for teaching, clearly conveyed, with relevant images and screen grabs.
- 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 serve as a handy reference guide and help you to 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. Step-by-step animations, like this example of creating reports and address labels in Microsoft Access, explain complex topics in a succinct and visual way.
- Exciting animations and multimedia material create variety and interest in lessons.
- Screen captures demonstrate software skills in short, user-friendly clips, saving you hours of set-up time.
Inspiringly interactive
Designed specifically for your interactive whiteboard, the presentations let you explore ICT in a unique and stimulating way. Memorable games like health and safety dominoes will engage the whole class, whilst teaching key concepts at the same time.
- Inspire your students with detailed animations and interactive activities.
- Encourage class discussion and debate using voting charts, true-or-false activities and drag-and-drop exercises.
- Over 200 interactive slides are embedded throughout the lessons.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Encourage class participation and understanding of key ICT concepts with visually appealing and exciting activities. Use this fun and colourful activity to help your students understand how to reduce the risks of working in a business environment.
- 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 OCR Level 2 Nationals in ICT, you can easily tailor the resources to the needs of your students. This slide on changing variables includes an embedded Excel spreadsheet that can be fully edited. The spreadsheet is available as an individual task in the task folder for this presentation, or can be used as a whole-class exercise.
- 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
Each unit is accompanied by a full set of companion tasks, including a variety of Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word files; accompanying worksheets provide time-saving homework activities to reinforce learning; and grading criteria slides inform students of the differences between pass, merit and distinction.
- An interactive menu system makes it easy to select the presentation you want, and also offers easy access to the companion tasks.
- Detailed teacher’s notes throughout the presentations provide suggested answers to questions posed, and ideas for extension activities.
- Detailed glossaries serve as useful tools for reference and can be used to test class knowledge of key ICT vocabulary.
Engaging summary material
Round up your lessons with interesting and varied plenaries, like this activity which requires correct answers from students to pilot a plane successfully. Whatever your teaching style, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a topic from start to finish.
- End-of-topic tasks, multiple-choice exercises and evaluative games test students’ knowledge and understanding of OCR Level 2 Nationals in ICT.
- Summary slides in each presentation reiterate key terminology and important processes learnt.
