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=**Year 7 Lesson Plans and Handouts**= These are lesson plans that are aimed at VELS level 5 ICT. These lesson plans cover:

**Search Exercise Lesson Plan**
This unit is for helping students understand context and advanced search techniques. This class is used to inform students of legitimate information and sites that might not be as such. This class also covers shorthand on what to type into Google, such as " " for exact terms, - for eliminating words, the concept of Domains, etc.
 * Meant to improve students abilities to understand the importance of proper searching**

Search Exercise Handouts
These Handouts will cover Google Lesson Plan 1 and Google Lesson Plan 2. I have chosen to also include the previous copies of both lesson plans. The first Advanced Google 1 handout was hard for students to relate to, and they were asking more about the content of the handout ("what is Atlantis?") rather than searching. I have modified it but feel free to look at or use that handout, but i feel within a year or two the modified handout will have to be modified again to keep up with student interest, as i put in new musicians and movies into context. I was not permitted to fully alter the summative assessment (Advanced Google 2), but did clean up the page and phrasing a little bit.
 * Advanced Google 1 Original**
 * Advanced Google 1 Revised**
 * Advanced Google 2 Original - Assessment**
 * Advanced Google 2 Revised - Assessment**

**Understanding spreadsheet software introduction**
This lesson plan is for an introduction into Excel and spreadsheets in general. This lesson is for students to understand the importance of spreadsheets and manipulating numeric data. Introduces the students into very basic coding as well.

Spreadsheet Introductory Handouts
A handout relating to spreadsheets and how simple mathematics is used with in Spreadsheets and the uses for organising information in the way that it is organised in the worksheets.

//Online Shopping//
//This lesson plan is for students to be introduced into the world of online shopping.// //This lesson is to explain to students the dangers of different types of websites, and make them aware of the possible dangers associated with it.// //This lesson plan is also about understanding safe, trust and untrustworthy items and pages, as well as a very basic introduction to economics (due to understanding credit cards, credit debit and paypal).//

//Online Shopping Exercises and Homework//
//The following exercises and homework is to establish an understanding of trustworthy purchases. This is to reflect further future purchases a student might make, and what to look out for.// //**In Class Personal Item Search**// //**Homework Regarding Payment methods, Safety, Shopping styles, and understanding of PayPal.**// //**Group work**// //The group exercise is to look at a screenshot of a fake website and identify what is unsafe and why a student wouldn't purchase from there.// //The other exercise is to look at a very safe website (screenshot of paypal) and circle and discuss what makes it so safe//

**VELS level 5**
VELS (Victorian Essential Learning Standards) level 5 is regarding standards for years 7 - 8 on what subjects to teach the students in the curriculum. The above (and future) lesson plans are in accordance to the standards of VELS. []

"They select appropriate search engines and use complex search strategies (for example,Boolean) to locate information from the Internet and other sources, and they evaluate the credibility, accuracy, reliability and comprehensiveness of this information. They organise and store gathered information to enable easy retrieval. They access online interactive e-learning tools to help them to develop knowledge in all areas of the curriculum."
 * VELS regarding Advanced Search.**

"Students apply their knowledge of data characteristics to solving problems; for example, when calculating the time it takes to travel to a distant planet using various fuels, they elect to use spreadsheet software because it is designed to manipulate numeric data, unlike word-processing software, which is designed to format text."
 * VELS regarding Excel/Spreadsheet**

//**VELS regarding Online Shopping**// //Although there is no VELS standards for online shopping, it was a choice of topic from discussion with a group of teachers within the domain to introduce this topic as many students were inquiring about the topic, with a lot of misguided information. A class with a number of small exercises and homework was found to be a good method of working on this issue.//

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