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ICT competences required by

Teacher

Ability to:

• use a data projector (optional)
• drag and drop images

Child

Ability to:

• drag and drop images

• how to decide whether and object is old or new
• to describe the characteristics of old and new objects
  

Resources

• Computer with large screen or data projector for whole class teaching
• ICT suite or set of laptop computers
  
• Ready made Textease files: Old new toys.t2 3toys.t2
  
• Ready made Word files: Old new toys.doc 3toys.doc
  
• Extra toys (optional)
  

Vocabulary

Words associated with the passing of time e.g. before, after, old, new, modern, when grandparents or parents/carers were young. Rusty, dirty, clean, broken etc.

Preparatory work

Teachers should save the files Old new toys.t2 or Old new toys.doc into a shared area or onto children's computers. The teacher also needs to save the file 3toys.t2 or 3toys.doc onto the demonstration machine.
The teacher may wish to have opened the children's files in readiness for the start of the main activity.


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The Lesson

Whole Class Teaching

Teacher opens and displays either the Word or Textease document 3toys and explains to the children that they are going to look closely at pictures of toys and decide whether the toy is old or new.

Display the first page of the document which shows the wagon.

Q Do you think this is old or new?

Ask children to give reasons for their answers.
Children will suggest that it is broken, it is bent, it has metal wheels, it looks rusty, tatty etc.

Show the next page which is the cash register.

Q Do you think this is old or new?

Ask children to give reasons for their answers.

Show the next page which shows a picture of some reproduction wooden tops and ask again whether the children think this is old or new. Some interesting discussion may take place about the fact that these are, in fact, modern reproductions of old toys.

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Main Activity

Teacher explains to the children that they are now going to sort some toys into old and new categories.

Teacher opens the Textease/Word file Old new toys.t2/doc and demonstrates how to drag an image from the middle of the page into the appropriate box.

This activity could be extended by asking the children to represent these ideas in a Venn Diagram.

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Plenary

Draw the children back together and display an unsorted version of the old new toys.t2/doc file on the demonstration machine.

Ask individual children to select a toy and tell the class why they think it is old or new.

Ask others to provide additional reasons why the toy is old or new.

Once the class has agreed, a child can then come and place the chosen toy in the correct box. If the children haven't raised a query about the possibility of a toy being in both categories the teacher may wish to ask the following question to prompt further discussion.

Q Are there any toys which could be old or new?

The teddy is actually a modern toy, but teddy bears have been around for more than a hundred years.

Why use ICT

Demonstrating:
Using the ready made files the teacher can easily demonstrate the process of dragging and dropping images.

Accessing and analysing:
ICT gives access to a wide range of images of old and new toys, a far greater selection than the teacher could source from books or magazines. The additional file extra toys.doc provides teachers with the opportunity to adapt and extend the sorting activity depending on the ability range in the class. The ICT resource reduces teacher workload by removing the need to find, photocopy and cut up sets of toys for children to sort. These resources, once created can be reused indefinitely.
Presenting, re-presenting and communicating: ICT enables children to rectify their mistakes easily. The ability to print out the children's work provides an assessment opportunity.

This activity will also help develop children's mouse control, an essential generic ICT skill.