crayons Middle Primary Computing 

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Themes and Topics
Skills
Formats
Me, Myself and I 
  • Recreation
  • Games
  • Attitudes towards others
  • Watch me grow
My Home: Australia 
  • Facts about Australia
  • Dreaming Stories
  • White History
  • Aboriginal Customs
Animals 
  • Insects
  • Life Cycles
  • Mammals
  • Australian Animals
Our World 
  • The Coast
  • Fire
  • Rainforests
  • Local Pollution
Other Cultures and Countries 
  • Customs and Traditions
  • Antarctica
  • Mapping
  • New Zealand / UK
Earth and Beyond 
  • Solar System (elements)
  • Flight
  • Solar System (relationships)
  • Measuring Weather
Celebrations 
  • Christmas
  • Easter
  • Special Days
General 
  • correct fingering
  • keyboard shortcuts
  • saving and retrieving files
Visual Arts 
  • showing depth
  • creating gradients
  • working with polygons
  • creating labelled diagrams
  • creating maps with legends
  • detailed free-hand drawings
Word Processing 
  • using all punctuation
  • using bullets or dot points
  • using columns
  • using text frames
  • using Spell Check
Presentation 
  • making appropriate choices for fonts and sizes
  • using formal letter format
  • using and manipulating graphics
Information Processing 
  • accessing information on the Internet and CD-ROM
  • copy/pasting phrases
  • using images
Communication 
  • checking and reading email
  • sending and replying to email
Spreadsheets 
  • entering data 
  • creating simple graphs
English 
  • stories and poems
  • lists and menus
  • narrations and reports
  • letters and transcripts
  • invitations and awards
Maths 
  • spreadsheets
  • graphs
  • polygons, tessellations, nets
  • mapping
  • fibonacci numbers
Visual Arts 
  • freehand drawing
  • scenes with depth
  • diagrams with labels
  • maps with legends
  • badges, logos, posters
Social Studies / Science / Health & PE 
  • animations
  • slide shows
  • flow charts
  • cycles
  • interactive stacks