Theme Park

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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
It is recommended that a minimum of 30 hours
should be spent working on this brief in a
controlled environment.   The teacher must
authenticate each student's work with confidence.
  While some work may take place in groups, the
input of the individual student must be clearly
identified and the judgements and conclusions
reached must be their own.   Evidence must be
submitted in an eportfolio that conforms to the
technical specification.
Symbols used in this brief      Click this
symbol to open a popup window and read the
helpful tip. Close the window before
continuing.                         This
button opens a checklist for the section a
series of questions so students gain
the best possible marks.  
       indicates that evidence of this is
required in the eportfolio.          indicates
that evidence of this is NOT required in the
eportfolio
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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Introduction There are a number of Theme parks
in the UK that have a high number of visitors
each year. Research has shown that there is a
need to open a new theme park that will cater for
the excess number that wish to go the a theme
park each year. For this project you need to be
able to find out about theme parks and the sort
of rides, facilities and services available. You
need to be able to carry out a brief survey to
find out what teenagers enjoy about going to
theme parks. You will need to set up a small
database to enter details of visitors to your
theme park. You also need to set up a new
leaflet to promote the theme park and a
presentation that can be shown in shopping
precincts and across the web advertising the
theme park. You need to create an eportfolio
(website) that will allow you to present all the
evidence created above for this project and
finally, you need to review your work and produce
a powerpoint presentation.
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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Planning You need to plan carefully to make sure
that you finish everything and meet the deadline.
Don't forget that some tasks can be carried out
away from the classroom and you should make good
use of this time.

• Produce a plan
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•        Produce a detailed plan that will enable
  you to complete all the tasks and meet the
  deadline.
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• There are no rules about the software you use or
  what your plan should look like but it must show
• a start date and finish date for the project
• all the main tasks and sub-tasks in a logical
  order
• the amount of time you plan to spend on each
  task and subtask with start and finish
• dates  
• whether a task or sub-task is to be completed in
  class or at home
• checkpoints when you will review your progress
  with your teacher and agree any changes
• you need to make to your plan.
• Use your plan as you work through the project.

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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Monitoring Progress There is no point in
spending time on your plan if you do not use it
to keep yourself on track!   Your plan is
unlikely to be absolutely right first time and it
is perfectly acceptable to make changes! You
should use it to monitor your progress so that
you can take action when problems occur.   
       You must make notes about your progress
and changes you make to your plan. Keep a record
that will be clear to the moderator - you could
use comment boxes, a project log, a column in a
table, etc. 
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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Gathering Information
For the powerpoint and leaflet you must gather
information about theme parks and the sort of
rides, facilities and services available for
example text, images, sound.   In addition to
secondary sources you must use a range of primary
sources, not just your survey. For example, you
could take photographs, produce drawings, make
sound recordings.          Keep a record of
where you find information that you want to use
in your publications. For example, you might type
up a table. Make it clear what is from primary
and what is from secondary sources.     Make
sure that you record the sources clearly so that
you can acknowledge them in your eportfolio e.g.
perhaps using a table in Word to do this.
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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Survey

• What do you need to know?
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• You should think about what information you need
  from the survey before designing your
  questionnaire. You must find out
• what activities young people in your area take
  part in already
• which of your ideas for activities they prefer -
  give them your three choices
• other information that will help you choose your
  activity, for example
• how far they are prepared to travel
• how much they are prepared to pay 
• Think carefully about what personal information
  you need - don't ask unnecessary questions.
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•        Decide on 10 15 things you want to
  find out and what answers/responses you will
  allow. Remember that you will need to analyse the
  results of the survey using a spreadsheet.

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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Create a Database
You must create a database for use at the opening
of the new theme park. The database will store
information about annual ticket holders.   The
data you need is stored as a text file in this
dataset. You must create a database to store the
data in an organised way so that it can be
searched easily.   You can find out what the
data items are by looking at this list. For
example the first Item is a unique four digit
code that identifies each customer. Use the first
two or three rows of the data to help you
understand the list and work out what fields you
need.
Design and build a suitable database
structure to store the data. Make sure that each
field has a suitable data type, format and
length. You should include simple validation
rules to ensure that only valid data is imported.
            Check that your database structure
works as intended. Once you are satisfied with
your database structure, import the data set. If
records are rejected, check that your validation
rules work as intended. Once you have
completed the data structure and imported the
data you need to provide evidence of the table
clearly in a suitable document e.g. as a screen
shot in Word. You must explain what you have
done and save it appropriately.
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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Leaflet

• You must produce a leaflet to promote the
  theme park and persuade people of all ages
• to visit.
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• It must have four A5 pages and must include
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• an attractive cover page
• information about the Theme Park
• details of the facilities/attractions, services,
  prices and transport links
• what else is on offer
• a promotional voucher for discounted entry to
  the theme park

You must acknowledge any sources you use, both
primary and secondary.
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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Powerpoint

• You must create a presentation for the new season
  at the Theme Park. This will run on a standalone
  PC.
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• You may use any suitable software think
  carefully about what you want to achieve.
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• Users must be able to move around by clicking the
  mouse.
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• There is no need to produce more than six
  screens.
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• You must include
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• brief information about the Theme Park
• what the theme park can offer.
• information about the facilities/attractions
• information about the prices, services and
  transport links
• what else is on offer
• how to use the promotional vouchers in the
  leaflet
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• Use a storyboard to design the screens
  for your information point.
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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Eportfolio

• You must present the required evidence in an
  eportfolio.
• It is important that the structure of your
  eportfolio is logical so that the moderator can
  move around and find all the evidence. The
  moderator has a limited amount of time make
  life easier for him or her!
• The eportfolio should include these pages
• a home page
• contents/menu page(s)
• context or commentary pages where you provide a
  brief commentary to introduce a piece of
• evidence and a link to it
• Preparing the evidence
• Every item of evidence in the eportfolio must be
  in an acceptable format.
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• This table lists all the file formats that you
  may use. You must NOT include file types that are
  not on the list
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• html,htm, xml
• txt
• pdf
• swf

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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Review
When you have finished everything else, you must
carry out a review of the whole project. Think
about what went well and what went wrong so that
you can learn by your mistakes next time.
Remember that the audience for this is the
moderator. Try to be honest, even when talking
about yourself!   You must consider these three
areas

• 1 The project as a whole
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• Think about
• what the project set out to achieve
• to what extent you have met the objectives
• how well your plan worked
• how well you managed your time
• whether you chose the right people as your test
  users and reviewers
• what, if anything, went wrong
• what others had to say
• what improvements you would make if you had time
• what you would do differently if you did the
  project again
• Use feedback from others to support what you have
  to say.

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D201 Using ICT Summative Project Brief
Practice for Year 10
Theme Park
Review

• 2 The publications
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• For each one, think about
• whether each one gets the right message across to
  the intended audience
• whether each one is fit for purpose, including
  the design as well as content
• how each one could be improved make use of
  feedback from others here
• to what extent the eportfolio is well structured
  and easy to use again, include comments from
  reviewers

• 3 Your own performance
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• Questions you should ask include 
• How well did you work during the project?
• How do you think your work on this project
  affected your performance in
• other work?
• How have you benefited from working on the
  project?
• What would you do differently if you did the
  project again?

Create your review using Powerpoint including as
much detail as you can to cover the three points
above. Finally add your review
to your eportfolio (website) and make sure that
your whole eportfolio works. Congratulations,
you have now completed the practice project