Key Skills KS4: Activities to Provide Evidence Across the Curriculum

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Age Range: KS4

A structured resource which enables students to collect and record evidence of their achievement in all the Key Skills using activities which link to a variety of subject areas. Tracking sheets assist with planning and monitoring of progress.

Topics include: Setting targets; Planning an event; Skills for group activities; Filling in forms; Presenting information in different ways; Reporting; Presenting findings by different methods; Budgeting; Scale drawings; Spreadsheets and bar charts; Internet research; E-communication in the workplace; Presentation using IT; Collaborative planning; Leadership styles; Design a flat; Prepare a survey; Information gathering to provide alternatives; Choices for 16+; Improving study skills; Learning something new; Identifying performance points for a CV; Action points for future targets; Statements of evidence; Planning for revision; Alternative strategies.

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Size: 71 Pages
ISBN: 978 1 86025 499 4
Author(s): Joan Barton
Code: KS4A
Popularity rank: 223

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Contents List

LESSONS

6 MOVING ON review their Key Skills and set targets for KS4

COMMUNICATION

8 PARTY PLAN produce a plan for an event in or out of school
10 TALK TOGETHER identify main skills involved in group activities
12 FILL IT IN recognise appropriate ways of completing different types of forms
14 PRESENTING IDEAS identify different ways of presenting information
16 MAKE IT CLEAR present a report which is clear and easy to understand by others

APPLICATION OF NUMBER

18 GET ON YOUR BIKE identify survey methods and present findings
20 FINDINGS present data by using three different methods
22 BUDGETING identify elements of budgeting
24 IS IT TOO BIG? produce scale drawings for a project
26 CHOICES present findings of research project in Careers in numerical form

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

28 PRODUCE A REPORT produce a report using spreadsheets and bar charts
30 ACTIVE RESEARCH use the Internet to search for specific information for a project
32 TECHNOLOGY NOW & THEN identify the different ways in which changes in the use of electronic equipment effects life in work and homes
34 PRESENTING IDEAS produce a presentation of ideas using a computer software package

WORKING WITH OTHERS

36 WORKING TOGETHER identify ways in which they work collaboratively to plan an event
38 LEADERSHIP ROLES analyse styles of leadership and their effectiveness
40 ENTERPRISING LEARNERS analyse roles and effectiveness of a group during a business simulation activity
42 TARGET SETTING set realistic targets and stages for a project

PROBLEM SOLVING

44 DESIGN A FLAT identify the requirements and priorities when designing a flat for a young couple
46 FINDING OUT list questions for a survey to gather information about views on a local college
48 SORTING OUT ALTERNATIVES identify methods of information gathering to decide alternatives in an local development issue
50 STEPPING UP identify steps in making choices for 16+

IMPROVING OWN LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE

52 BE SMARTER identify SMART targets to improve study skills
54 NEW LEARNER decide what action to take to learn something new
56 REVIEW YOUR PROGRESS identify main aspects of your performance for your C.V.
58 WHAT NEXT? identify action points to achieve future careers targets
60 PULLING IT TOGETHER identify statements of evidence for use in recording achievement

APPENDICES

63 Appendix 1 TEACHER PLANNING AND MONITORING GRID
64 Appendix 2 STUDENT PORTFOLIO EVIDENCE TRACKING SHEET
65 Appendix 3 for use with TALK TOGETHER (page 10)
66 Appendix 4 for use with MAKE IT CLEAR (page 16)
67 Appendix 5 for use with GET ON YOUR BIKE (page 18)
68 Appendix 6 for use with FINDINGS (page 20)
69 Appendix 7 for use with BUDGETING (page 22)
70 Appendix 8 for use with PRODUCE A REPORT (page 28)
72 Appendix 9 for use with WORKING TOGETHER (page 36)
73 Appendix 10 for use with LEADERSHIP ROLES (page 38)
74 Appendix 11 for use with ENTERPRISING LEARNERS (page 40)
75 Appendix 12 for use with BE SMARTER (page 52)
76 Appendix 13 for use with WHAT NEXT? (page 58)
77 Appendix 14 for use with PULLING IT TOGETHER (page 60)