Practice IT for the Australian Curriculum: Lower & Middle Secondary

Practice IT for the Australian Curriculum is designed to keep students in step with the ever changing world of IT with easy-to-follow modules, engaging activities and a flexible structure.

Written to suit both the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies syllabus and the general ICT capability, Practice IT for the Australian Curriculum works both for stand-alone IT courses or for use across the curriculum.

Features 

• Updated content covering new key technologies used in the classroom along with theoretical explanations, step-by-step instructions and activities.
• Significant coverage of the Australian Curriculum, including the Digital Technologies syllabus and General Capabilities such as the ICT literacy and numeracy capabilities.
• Introductory chapters that explore the ethical use of IT and other relevant computer awareness topics, such as cyberbullying.
• Interactive Textbooks that include exercises for each module to cover alternative software programs, digital comprehension activities, supporting data files, videos and other rich interactive content.
• A practical approach to IT with easy-to-follow modules full of engaging exercises and structured projects allowing students to practice and develop their IT skills.
• The flexible structure that allows teachers to use the modules to form a complete IT course or as discrete units to meet the ICT requirements of any course across the curriculum.

Contents

• Teachers’ notes
• Acknowledgments
• Module 1 Computer awareness
• Module 2 Social and ethical practice in IT
• Module 3 Word processing
• Module 4 Drawing tools
• Module 5 Making Movies
• Module 6 Multimedia Presentations
• Module 7 Computer graphics
• Module 8 Spreadsheets
• Module 9 Databases
• Module 10 Algorithms and programming
• Glossary
• Index

Sample Pages

Preview Interactive Book