Cambridge ICT Starters: Next Steps, Stage 1
A complete ICT course for children from five years of age.
Cambridge ICT Starters: Next Steps, Stage 1 has been designed to support learners who are following the Cambridge Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Starters syllabus. This book provides full coverage of all the modules. The sections of the book correspond to the modules and follow the order in which the modules appear in the syllabus. The book builds on creating, amending and refining documents; designing cards and posters; producing, amending and interpreting spreadsheets and graphs; and exploring, modifying and interpreting databases.
The activities in the book use Microsoft ® Office 2007 software and Windows ® 7.
Table of Contents
- Module 1. Exploring Documents:
- 1. New document
- 2. Selecting and changing
- 3. Cut and paste
- 4. Spellchecker
- 5. Long documents
- 6. Amend text for a specific audience
- 7. Inserting images
- 8. WordArt
- 9. Refine and organise
- 10. Project
- Optional extension and challenge activities
- Module 2. Exploring Images:
- 1. Paint
- 2. Creating patterns
- 3. Symmetry
- 4. Designing a card
- 5. Poster
- Optional extension and challenge activities
- Module 3. Exploring Spreadsheets:
- 1. What is a spreadsheet?
- 2. Autosum
- 3. Autofit
- 4. Typing formulas
- 5. More formulas
- 6. Survey
- 7. Drawing graphs
- 8. More graphs
- 9. Completing data
- 10. What if…?
- 11. Evidence
- Optional extension and challenge activities
- Module 4. Exploring Databases:
- 1. Exploring databases
- 2. Database basic
- 3. Tables
- 4. Evidence of work done
- 5. Records
- 6. Query
- 7. Queries and search
- 8. Search and sorting
- 9. More sorting
- 10. Interpretation of data
- Optional extension and challenge activities.
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