Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand the need to be thoughtful when working on a collaborative document.
- Use comments to suggest changes to a document and understand how to resolve comments.
- Plan a survey for Microsoft Form with a range of different question types that will provide different types of answers, e.g. text, multiple choice or numerical values.
- Create a Microsoft Form with a range of different question types that will provide different types of answers, e.g. text, multiple choice or numerical values.
- Export data to a spreadsheet, highlighting data, using conditional formatting and calculating averages and sums of numbers.
Suggested prior learning
Microsoft Office 365: Computing systems and networks 2: Emailing
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Teamwork
Lesson 2: Sharing a document
Lesson 3: Microsoft Forms 1
Lesson 4: Microsoft Forms 2
Lesson 5: Shared spreadsheets
Key skills
- Understanding that computer networks
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Key knowledge
To know:
- Software can be
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Key vocabulary
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collaborate
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Microsoft Word As needed
- Microsoft Forms As needed
- Microsoft Excel As needed
- A5 paper ×30
- A ‘teacher’ Microsoft Outlook account for incoming emails from pupils. As needed
- Microsoft Office accounts. As needed
- The children’s work from a recent English lesson. ×30
- A shared Microsoft Word document. As needed
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Computing Y4: Collaborative learning
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit.
Vocabulary display – Computing Y4: Collaborative learning
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Collaborative learning unit.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
RSE: Respectful Relationships, courtesy and manners.
English: Writing – composition and peer assessment.
Maths: Interpreting data, bar charts and time graphs.
Suggested next steps
Computing systems and networks: Search engines
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