Waterloo Secondary School

Scheme of work for Form 3

Term 1 September – December 2019

Information Technology / Computer Science

Week Topic Lessons

1 Internet and Web 2.0 tools Introduction to Computer Networks

How the Internet Works

2 Internet and Web 2.0 tools Dangers of the Internet:

 Spam
 Malware
 Viruses
 Spyware
 Worms
 Trojan Horses
 Ransomware
 adware
3 Internet and Web 2.0 tools Dangers of the Internet:
 Computer Crimes (cybercrime)
 Fraud and Financial crimes
 Identity theft
 Cyber terrorism
 Cyber bullying
 Cyber extortion
4 Programming Concepts and Introduction to computational thinking
Computational Thinking

5 Programming Concepts and Introduction to algorithm development

Computational Thinking

6-8 Programming Concepts and Writing algorithms using flowcharts

Computational Thinking

8-12 Programming Concepts and Basic programming constructs

Computational Thinking
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Scheme of work for Form 3

Term 2 January - April 2020

Information Technology / Computer Science
Week Topic Lessons Assessment
1 Video Creation Steps to video creation Video creation project
Elements of a story Students will work in
Story boarding / Scripting groups to produce a 5
Camera techniques minute short fil on a
Video editing topic of interest

2-3 Video Creation Developing Idea for a short film Video creation project
Students will work in
groups to create a
synopsis which is to be
produced using
Microsoft
Word.

4-5 Video Creation Story board / script Video creation project

Group will develop a
story board or script
for the short film using
MS. PowerPoint
5-7 Video Creation Shooting video Groups will produce a
shot list in MS. Word
7-9 Video Creation Shooting video Groups will shoot video
clips based on shot-list
9-12 Video Creation Editing video Video clips will be
edited to produce final
short film
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Scheme of work for Form 3

Term3 April – July 2020

Information Technology / Computer Science
Week Topic Lessons Assessment
1-3 Computer Fundamentals and Hardware specifications - Students will
Careers in IT Processor type, Processor speed; prepare a
Evaluate the specifications of Capacity of RAM, Capacity of PowerPoint
a computer hard disk; Types of ports: USB, presentation
HDMI Type of ports: USB, comparing different
HDMI, VGA, Network (RJ45), types of computers
Fire wire; Audio, Backing store
(DVD, CD RW drives) , SD Card
readers, Screen Size, Screen
Resolution, IDE and SATA
interfaces,

3-6 Computer Fundamentals and
Careers in IT
Identify possible careers in
ICT
7 Programming Concepts and
Computational Thinking
Including: software engineer,
programmer, computer
technician, web designer
Division of tasks into
subtasks; Steps to perform
a task
Students will choose
a particular career
and write an
application letter for
a particular IT job
outlining their skills
and qualifications
and why they chose
this job.
Students write a list
of steps of the rules
of a selected game

8 Programming Concepts and Concept of a flowchart; checklist is used to

Computational Thinking Flowchart symbols: check for correct
Interpret flowchart symbols Input/output, decision, shapes and their
processing, start/ stop, arrows functions

9 Programming Concepts and Program Construct (sequential) Students construct a

Computational Thinking flowchart for a list
Use flowchart symbols of steps given to
appropriately to represent an solve a problem.
algorithm using a sequential
construct.

10 Programming Concepts and Writing algorithms using Student represent a

Computational Thinking
Use flowchart symbols
appropriately to represent an
algorithm using a
looping/repetition construct.
flowcharts solution for
Program Construct multiplication tables
(looping/repetition) (multiplying
numbers by 1 – 12)
using a flowchart.
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Scheme of work for Form 3

11-12 Programming Concepts and
Computational Thinking
Manipulate sprites using an
application
Use suitable application, e.g. A checklist is used
Light Bot, Python for Kids, by peers to evaluate
Scratch) the work cards
assignment