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Control Technology in Year 1 - Unit 1F: Understanding instruction and making things happen

Unit 1F focuses on following, giving and recording instructions. Use of directional language and units of measurement as well as sequencing activities are also developed through this unit.

Click here for the QCA Unit (1F)

My World and Stickers, from Granada Learning, can be used to create activities focusing on sequencing, such as, instructions for doing things, sequencing events happening during the course of a day.

My World for Windows:
www.dialsolutions.com/mw4w.html

Also My World 3:
www.dialsolutions.com/
myworld3/whatis/index.htm

My World

All About Shape and Space has two mazes to be solved by giving instructions using arrows, pupils can record their instructions.

www.granada-learning.com

This is a screen grab from the All About Shape programme.

All About Shape & Space

Let's Go With Katy enables pupils to give instructions to explore a simulation.

Review:
www.c2kni.org.uk/
schools/ptittles/LetsGo1-3.pdf

RM Information
www.rm.com/Primary/
Products/Product.asp?cref=PD92085

Let's Go With Katy

Pupils can discuss how things work, for example, a tape recorder and use it to play back sounds which they need to match to pictures, they can then record their own sounds and draw pictures to illustrate them.

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Control Technology in Year 1 - Unit 1F: Understanding instruction and making things happen