LESSONS

MODELLING

• 7 EXCHANGE IT - This worksheet looks at spreadsheet design within the context of currency exchange.
• 9 PLANNING A HOLIDAY - Students construct a calendar-based schedule.
• 11 TRAVEL SCHEDULE - Students design a computer-generated travel schedule.
• 13 MILES PER GALLON - Looks at the design of spreadsheets to compute the fuel costs of motoring journeys.
• 15 TIME ZONES - Students design a computer system to deal with world time zones and time differences.
• 17 COST IT - This worksheet looks at the effects of changing variables in a computer model.

COMMUNICATING INFORMATION

• 19 SELLING A HOLIDAY - Students consider the range of possibilities for employing ICT in an advertising campaign.
• 21 WEATHER CHARTS - This worksheet looks at the potential for using ICT in displaying weather information.
• 23 MAPS - This worksheet looks at how ICT can be used to construct various types of map.
• 25 POSTCARDS - Students design an 'all purpose, fill in the blanks' postcard (for conventional mail) using ICT.
• 27 TRAFFIC REPORTS - Students look at how ICT can be used to produce journey plans which take into account enroute problems.
• 29 WHO GOES WHERE? - Students design successful means of capturing and preparing information for computer processing.

HANDLING INFORMATION

• 31 LOOKING UP TIMETABLES - ICT is used to display information on timetable-based spreadsheets.
• 33 ROUTE PLANNING - Looks at how ICT can be used to display route information in a form that can be used on journeys.
• 35 PHRASE BOOK - Students investigate how to design a database of 'useful phrases' and their foreign equivalents (in a modern foreign language that they are studying).
• 37 PACK IT - This worksheet requires students to design a computer-generated holiday packing list.
• 39 WHERE SHALL WE GO? - Students consider what types of computer program are used by travel agents to match customers to holidays.
• 41 ADDRESS BOOK - Students design a computerised address book for a palm top computer.

CONTROLLING AND MEASURING

• 43 SECURITY - Investigates the use of sensors in security systems.
• 45 TICKET IT - Looks at how ICT devices are used to control ticketing.
• 47 CASHCARDS - Students look at the sequence of instructions that are required for a cash machine to complete a withdrawal operation.
• 49 SNAIL MAIL IT - Focuses on the use of ICT in sorting conventional mail.
• 51 WEATHER STATION - Looks at how computers and sensors are used to gather weather information.
• 53 LOST LUGGAGE - Students investigate how bar coding can be used to control baggage handling.

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, ETHICAL AND MORAL ISSUES

• 55 PASSPORT - This worksheet looks at how a passport encodes personal information into a machine-readable form.
• 57 INTERNET IN ENGLISH? - This worksheet questions why most of the Internet is in English.
• 59 E MAIL Vs SNAIL MAIL - Students think about the similarities and differences between e-mail and conventional post.
• 61 TRAVEL AGENTS AND ICT - The role of the Internet in the travel industry is explored.
• 63 PRIVACY - The social, economic, ethical and moral issues around ICT and individual privacy are considered, which requires students to think widely.
• 65 VIRTUAL HOLIDAYS?- Students are invited to let loose their imaginations and consider the future where 'virtual holidays' might be a reality.