|Year 8 Curriculum Outlines| |Art and Design| Introduction and
Aims In Year 8 students build on the skills acquired in Year 7
and will be expected to start producing some high quality
projects using a variety of different applications. Not only
will students start to learn how to improve their graphic design
skills, they will apply this knowledge and start to enter the
exciting world of web design ICT offers opportunities for pupils
to: UNIT 1 - PUBLISHING ON THE WEB Students will learn how to
produce basic web sites. Starting with HTML and moving on to
Macromedia Dreamweaver - professional web design software. They
will work in pairs to produce a new school web site. UNIT 2 -
GAMESHOW DESIGNER In this unit students will produce a game show
based around the popular 'Who wants to be a Millionaire?' model.
They will need to use the internet to research their gameshow
and produce an interactive, standalone application using
Microsoft Powerpoint. UNIT 3 - GLOBAL FILMS Students take on the
role of marketing and ad