Computer Applications Secondary 2

Scheme of Work
Based on 6 periods per week Term 1 8 weeks 48 periods Term 2 7 weeks 42 periods Term 3 8 weeks 48 periods Term 4 6 weeks 36 periods Total 29 weeks 174 periods

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Scheme of Work for Computer Applications Secondary 2

No. of Periods Term 1 8 periods

Chapters COB1 Programming and Troubleshooting Computers

Learning Outcomes State the tasks of the Operating System Understand how a computer program works Perform simple troubleshooting of computers

Key Questions How does a program work? What are the tasks of operating systems? Why do we need more elaborate application programs when operating systems already come with application programs? Why do computers slow down when there is more than one program running at the same time? Why are spyware, Trojans and viruses so powerful? What is troubleshooting? What are some common error messages? What would you do if you see them? What is memory? What is random access memory? Is more memory the better? How can you check the amount of memory in your computer? Before adding RAM onto your computer, what should you consider? How much memory is enough memory? What factors should you consider in choosing storage media? What is meant by formatting a storage media? What is file allocation table?

Workbooks Activity 1 Revising Some Terms (15 min) Activity 2 Software (15 min) Activity 3 Operating Systems (15 min) Activity 4 Troubleshooting a Computer (15 min) Activity 5 Writing a Simple Program (Optional) (15 min) Review Exercise COB1 Activity 1 Memory and Storage Media (15 min) Activity 2 Hard Drive versus RAM (15 min) Activity 3 Running Low on Memory (15 min) Activity 4 Choosing Storage Media (15 min) Activity 5 Formatting (15 min) Activity 6 What Would You Do? (15 min)

Thinking/ Process Skills Recalling Recalling, elaborating Recalling, sequencing Evaluating

Resources /Values/NE Messages/Interdisciplinary

Simple programming

Extension: Programming

Term 1 9 periods

COB2 Memory and Storage Devices

Know if your computer is running low on memory Chose the right amount of memory Choose the best type of storage media Understand why storage media need to be formatted

Organising ideas Organising ideas Recalling, sequencing Evaluating Explaining Evaluating

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Thinking/ Process Skills Recalling

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Activity 7 Revising Some Terms (15 min) Term 1 10 periods COB3 Losing and Recovering Data Understand the cost of losing data Back up your work Recover data Know the differences between a graphical-user interface and a command-driven interface What kinds of data will be the most costly to replace if they are lost? What is back-up? What are the ways in which data can be lost? What are the ways to back up data? Give an example of a largescale loss of data? What can you do if you lose your data? What are the ways to erase data? What is an interface? What is a graphical-user interface? What is command-driven interface? What is an e-mail? What is an e-mail client? What is an e-mail account? What are the components of an e-mail message? How e-mail works? Can you list some good and some bad e-mail etiquette? What is a spam? What is identity theft? Review Exercise COB2 Activity 1 Revising Some Terms (15 min) Activity 2 Four Stories of Data Loss (15 min) Activity 3 Losing Data (15 min) Activity 4 Cost/Benefit Analysis (30 min) Activity 5 Losing Data (15 min) Activity 6 Graphical-ser Interface and Commanddriven Interface (15 min) Review Exercise COB3 Activity 1 Revising Some Terms (15 min) Activity 2 Writing Better E-mail (30 min) Activity 3 Choosing an Email Service Provider (15 min) Activity 4 How E-mail

Recalling Analysing Evaluating Calculating, analysing Sequencing Explaining

Term 1 10 periods

CEL1 Electronic Mail and Dangers of the Internet

Send electronic mail (email) Understand how electronic mail works Use proper netiquette for e-mail Know the dangers of the Internet Know how to be safe on the Internet

Identifying errors Evaluating Evaluating

Elaborating

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Key Questions What are e-mail scams? Can you suggest how you can be safe on the Internet?

Workbooks Works (15 min) Activity 5 Meeting People in Chat Rooms (30 min) Review Exercise CEL1 Activity 1 Electronic Funds Transfer (15 min) Activity 2 Cashless Transactions in the Transport Services (15 min) Activity 3 Bus Conductors versus Automated Fares Collection System (15 min) Activity 4 ATMs (15 min) Activity 5 Skimming (15 min) Activity 6 Protecting Yourself from Skimmers (15 min) Activity 7 Exploring Online Services (30 min) Activity 8 Safe Online Shopping (15 min) Activity 9 Spyware (15 min)

Thinking/ Process Skills Elaborating

Resources /Values/NE Messages/Interdisciplinary Protecting yourself

Term 1 11 periods

CEL2 Electronic Funds Transfer

Understand what is meant by electronic funds transfer Give examples of situations where electronic funds transfer can take place Understand that computers in different locations are linked together and centrally controlled to enable electronic funds transfers State examples of online services

What is electronic money transfer? What are the disadvantages of buying in the traditional way? Compare this to buying in the EFT way. Can you give examples of EFT? What are the advantages and disadvantages of EFT? Can you give examples of online services? What is digital cash? What is spyware? What advice can you give regarding spyware? What does a bank network comprised of?

Elaborating Sequencing General knowledge: Transport services in other countries Mathematics

Calculating

Sequencing Elaborating Elaborating Protecting yourself Protecting yourself

Elaborating Recalling Explaining Protecting yourself Protecting yourself

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Term 2 7 periods

CEL3 Computers in Supermarkets

State some uses of computers in supermarkets, such as inventory control and checking out products with the use of barcodes and scanners State that barcodes are used to identify products in the supermarket State some benefits of using computers in the supermarket

Term 2 8 periods

CEL4 Cashless Society

Give examples of how computers are used in the bank, such as for cash dispensing, cheque processing, management of customers accounts and online banking Mention how data is captured through the use of OMR, MICR, magnetic strips and barcodes State that a personal identification number (PIN) is commonly used as a security measure

What are the problems faced by owners running their shops in the traditional way? What are the advantages of running a shop in the EFT way? What is a POS terminal? What parts does it have? What are barcodes for? What are the parts of a barcode number? What happens when a barcode of an item is scanned at the POS? What are the advantages of using computers in a supermarket? How are computers used in banks? Why is electronic banking popular? How is data (e.g. identity) stored? What devices are used to read and process data? What effects do cashless electronic transactions have on us and the society?

Review Exercise CEL2 Activity 1 Revising Some Terms and Concepts (15 min) Activity 2 Barcodes (15 min) Activity 3 The POS Terminal (15 min) Activity 4 Stock Control (15 min) Review Exercise CEL3

Recalling

Identifying errors Sequencing Calculating, sequencing, evaluating

Activity 1 Cashless Society (15 min) Activity 2 Computers in Banks (15 min) Activity 3 How Data is Captured (15 min) Activity 4 Bank Robbery (5 min) Activity 5 Credit Card Fraud (15 min) Activity 6 Keeping Your PIN Safe (15 min)

Recalling Elaborating Organising ideas Explaining Elaborating Elaborating Protecting yourself

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Learning Outcomes when using a smart card Understand that the trend is towards cashless electronic transactions Understand that a document can be made up of two types of objects: text and graphics Import graphics Resize text and graphics Change the properties of your graphics Use features of text and graphics, such as rotation Know that the positions of elements should be consistent Identify the three elements of font: typeface, style and point size Use appropriate fonts for heading, sub-headings and body text to focus readers attention Use appropriate fonts and graphics to improve readability and increase visual impact Create a custom-sized document Use scaling functions to choose the size of paper to be printed

Key Questions

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Term 2 10 periods DOP1 Improving Readability

Review Exercise CEL4 What are the ways in which you can improve readability of a document? What guidelines can you give in using graphics? What are the formatting styles of a picture available in word processors? What are meant by typeface, style and size? How do you help readers to focus their attention to parts of a document? How do you impart visual impact to your document? Why is proofreading important?

Activity 1 Readability (15 min) Activity 2 Anime (30 min)

Explaining Analysing , formatting General knowledge: Anime Files:S2WB_DOP1 _Activity 2 Literature: Science fiction Files:S2WB_DOP1 _Activity 3 Files:S2WB_DOP1 _Activity 4

Activity 3 Science Fiction (30 min)

Analysing, formatting

Activity 4 Line Spacing (30 min) Review Exercise DOP1

Explaining, editing

Term 2 8 periods

DOP2 Custom Paper Size and Graphics

What are the different standard paper sizes? When do we use custom-sized documents? How can you print custom-

Activity 1 Letters between Companies (30 min) Activity 2 Soccer Party Invitation (30 min)

Role playing, generating Designing

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Learning Outcomes State the difference between importing text, and copy/cut and paste Change the properties of your graphics

Key Questions sized documents? How can you insert text and graphics from one document to another? What is the difference between importing and cutand-paste? Do word processors allow you to change the properties of graphics (e.g. changing contrast and brightness)? How can you insert page numbers to documents? When do you insert page numbers to documents? Why are consistent element positions important in a document? Can this rule be broken? Is using both text and graphics more or less effective than using either text or graphics? Why? When should you use bullets and numbers? Why? What is a page break? What is a soft page break? What is a hard page break? When do you use hard page breaks? What is a section break? What are headers and footers for? What are templates?

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Review Exercise DOP2

Term 2 9 periods

DOP3 Page Numbers and Bullets

Create and plan consistent element positions Use graphics and text to complement each other Use bullets Insert page numbers

Activity 1 Bullets (30 min) Activity 2 Bullets and Page Numbering (30 min) Activity 3 Page Numbering (30 min)

Inserting bullets Inserting bullets and numberings Inserting page numbers

Science: Classes of animals Science: Fruit Files:S2WB_DOP3 _Activity 2 General knowledge: Malaysia Files:S2WB_DOP3 _Activity 3

Term 3 10 periods DOP4 Page Breaks, Headers and Footers, Templates, and Multi-column Layout Use page breaks Use headers and footers Use a multi-column layout

Review Exercise DOP3 Activity 1 Headers, Footers and Watermark (30 min) Activity 2 Terrorism (30 min) Inserting headers, footers and watermark Formatting, inserting page breaks, bullets, numberings Science: Temperature sensor Files:S2WB_DOP4 _Activity 1 General knowledge: Terrorism Files:S2WB_DOP4 _Activity 2

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Key Questions When is multi-column layout used?

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Thinking/ Process Skills and watermarks Using templates Designing layout

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Activity 3 Templates (60 min) Activity 4 A 2-column Newsletter Article (30 min)

General knowledge: Cooking Files:S2WB_DOP4 _Activity 4 Files:S2WB_DOP4 _Activity 5

Activity 5 A Multi-column Layout (30 min) Review Exercise DOP4 Activity 1 Blending to Create Neon Text (30 min) Activity 2 Welding (30 min) Activity 3 Creating an Advertisement (30 min) Review Exercise COG1 Activity 1 Shaping, Filling, Adding Transparency, Fitting Text to Path, and Using the Envelope Effect (60 min) Activity 2 Manipulating Shapes (30 min)

Changing column numbers Blending, recalling, predicting Welding, predicting Designing advertisement Shaping, filling, fitting text to path, using the envelope effect Joining nodes

Term 3 7 periods

COG1 Creating and Editing Graphics

Create graphics using basic graphic elements such as lines, curves, sectors, polygons, circles, ovals, squares and rectangles Edit graphics

What are some common graphics programs? Can you name some drawing tools of typical graphics software? What are these tools used to draw? Can graphics be edited? What are the tools to edit graphics? Can shapes be reshaped? What is used to select colours for fill and outline? What are the different types of fill for closed objects? What are the types of transparency? When do you use them? What is Blend? When do you use Blend?

Art: Kieth Haring

Term 3 13 periods

COG2 Special Effects

Select colours for the fill of objects from the palette Create shading effects using the gradient fill tool Fill objects with Pattern and Texture (including Transparency)

Art: Joan Miro

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Learning Outcomes Manipulate graphics (combine, cut out, trim, weld and intersect) Use the Blend feature for creating a threedimensional look or adding highlights to objects

Key Questions What are Combine, Trim, Weld and Intersect? When do you use them? What tools can you use for making fonts as part of the graphic design?

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Activity 3 Adding Perspectives (30 min) Activity 4 Combining and Joining Lines (30 min) Activity 5 Converting to Curves (15 min) Activity 6 The Envelope Tool (15 min) Activity 7 Interactive Distortions (15 min) Activity 8 Trimming (60 min)

Adding perspectives Joining lines Converting text to curves Using the envelope effect Using interactive distortion Trimming Files:S2WB_COG 2_Activity 8

Term 3 6 periods

COG3 Bitmaps and Vectors

Understand what resolution is and the difference between high and low resolution Edit images by making changes to the pixels State that resizing bitmap graphics can result in a loss of quality State that a scanner and a digital camera can be used to digitise images Edit images to compose

What is resolution? What is a bitmap? What is meant by digitising images? What are the devices used to digitise images? What are paint programs? What some tools in typical paint programs? Can you compare bitmap graphics and vector graphics? What are some bitmap

Review Exercise COG2 Activity 1 Editing Bitmaps (30 min) Activity 2 Creating a Collage (30 min) Review Exercise COG3

Editing bitmaps Creating a collage

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Learning Outcomes a picture (e.g. making a collage)

Key Questions formats? What are some vector formats? What is a collage? What software can be used to create collages? What makes a presentation effective? Before doing a presentation what questions should you ask? What are the multimedia elements? What advice can you give in using multimedia elements? What are the applications used to create the different multimedia elements? What are presentation programs?

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Term 3 12 periods

MMP1 Multimedia

Understand what makes an effective presentation Know the types of objects that can be placed in a multimedia presentation Know how to make use of multimedia effectively

Activity 1 Public Speaking Using Multimedia Presentation (30 min) Activity 2 A Rubric to Grade Presentation (60 min) Activity 3 Fighter Wing Presentation Slides (30 min)

Explaining

Organising

Evaluating

General knowledge: Aircraft fighter Files:S2WB_MMP 1_Activity 3

Activity 4 Creating Your Own Animation (60 min) Activity 5 Obtaining Clip Art from the Internet and Using Slide Transition (30 min)

Creating animation Creating a presentation, inserting graphics, using templates Creating a presentation, inserting sound and video General knowledge: Love

Activity 6 Inserting Sound and Video Clips (30 min)

General knowledge: Sport

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Review Exercise MMP1 Term 4 6 periods MMP2 Master Slides and Templates Create and use a master slide Use templates What are master slides for? What are the advantages of master slides? How do you create master slides? What are templates for? Activity 1 Creating a Template (30 min) Creating templates, creating a presentation Creating templates, creating a presentation Planning, creating a presentation Planning, creating a presentation Elaborating Elaborating Files:S2WB_SST1 _Activity 2 Science: The Universe

Activity 2 Creating a new Template Using a Picture (30 min) Activity 1 Snapshots of Diabetes (60 min) Activity 2 Schools Sports Day (60 min)

Term 4 8 periods

MMP3 Storyboard

Understand what a storyboard is Use a storyboard to create a presentation Use screen transition effectively State that a worksheet consists of columns and rows of cells Identify the columns and rows of a worksheet State that a cell is identified by its cell address Give the cell address of an item in a worksheet Know what a range is Give examples of the uses of spreadsheets Understand the terms

Term 4 6 periods

SST1 Introduction to Spreadsheets

What are storyboards for? What are the ways to create storyboards? How to draw paper storyboards? Why do you use storyboards before doing your presentations? What is a spreadsheet program? What is cell address? What is a range of cells? What are some uses of spreadsheets?

General knowledge: Lighthouse Files:S2WB_MMP 2_Activity 2 Health: Diabetes Files:S2WB_MMP 3_Activity 1

Activity 1 Cell Reference (15 min) Activity 2 Colouring Cells (30 min) Review Exercise SST1

Term 4

SST2

What are the types of data?

Activity 1 Operators (30

Using

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No. of Periods 8 periods

Chapters Working with Worksheets

Learning Outcomes text, numeric values and formulae Edit, copy and erase cell contents Know how to use a formula

Key Questions

Workbooks min) Activity 2 In a Restaurant (30 min) Activity 3 Calculating Expenses (30 min)

Thinking/ Process Skills operators Using formulae Using formulae Using formulae Using formulae Using formulae

What skills does data entry

Resources /Values/NE Messages/Interdisciplinary _Activity 1 Files:S2WB_SST2 _Activity 2 Files:S2WB_SST2 _Activity 3 Files:S2WB_SST3 _Activity 1 Files:S2WB_SST3 _Activity 2 Files:S2WB_SST3 _Activity 3

include? What operators are used in spreadsheets for calculations?

Term 4 8 periods

SST3 More on Working with Worksheets

Use functions like Sum and Average Use a shortcut to compute the total for columns and rows Insert and delete columns and rows Change the width of columns and rows Change the format of numbers

What function can be used to add? What function can be used to find averages? What functions can be used to find maximum and minimum values? Why do we need to copy formulae or functions? Can you format spreadsheets?

Review Exercise SST2 Activity 1 Using Sum (30 min) Activity 2 Sum and Average (30 min) Activity 3 Sales Report (30 min) Review Exercise SST3

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