You can incorporate ICT in a topic about toys.
Many children have some sort of battery-operated, remote or radio controlled toy at home. Encourage them to explore the instructions that they need to give to operate each one, and then to sequence those instructions to make them work. This is also an ideal way of introducing a floor robot such as Roamer or Pip.
As a class, sort different toys by categories such as old and new, big and small, plastic and wood. The Naturegrid website has a lesson plan on sorting toys, with a downloadable Textease file to sort toys on screen into sets. There is also a downloadable learning poster for 'Technology Around Us'. The Channel 4 website has a sorting game for children to sort a collection of toys into Victorian and modern groups.
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