The children in Year 2 have been looking at IT (Information Technology – computers or things that work with computers) in our everyday lives.
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Scanner finding the items and telling the item finder.
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Item finder searching for the prices of each item and adding them together to make the receipt.
This week they were looking at barcode readers in supermarkets. In a role-playing activity, one child took items with barcodes to a table with 2 people on it – who took the role of a scanner and till. The scanner had to find the correct item to the bar code, and then tell the item finder which items there were scanning. The item finder had to then find the price of each item and add them to make a receipt.
At the end of the lesson, the children found that adding up without IT was slower and could make easy mistakes.
