A wide range of Primary classroom activities, reviews and resources has been developed and published over the years originally by MAPE and, more recently since the merger in 2004, by Naace.

The Direct2U service was a weekly email service produced by Becta in partnership with Naace. The service was for primary teachers and offered lesson plans featuring ICT in activities based on six subject strands. The service is discontinued but you can view the lesson plans in this archive.

In this article Caroline Atherton describes how she integrated art and design and design technology into a History unit studying the Aztecs, and the particular role ICT played in this work.

This article attempts to provide you with all you need to know about preparing digital images for print and web publication.

An interpretation of QCA Art Unit 2A 'Picture This'

This follows on nicely from work done in QCA Art Unit 1A 'Self -portrait'

The following 'step-through' example uses Textease Studio CT but could be appropriately done with any other paint package.

Becta produced ideas and activities using ICT across the curriculum. These can be found at http://forum.ngfl.gov.uk/direct2u
This article reproduces three of the Direct2U activities. The first is a D&T task for Year 1. This is followed by two Art & Design activities, one for Year 1 and the other for Year 2.

In this article Glenys Hart summarises the content of some of the Regional Broadband Consortia's individual grids for learning with reference to Art and Design and Design and Technology.

This article won the Chris Robson Memorial Prize 1998 and first appeared in MicroScope 50, 1997. Sally describes how she worked with Year 2 children to develop a collection of exciting games to play using the Roamers.

This article won the Chris Robson Memorial Prize in 1999 and first appeared in MAPE Focus on Art Summer 1998. Steve describes how over fifty children from Key Stage 2 were involved in creating a multimedia school prospectus as artists, authors, photographers or editors.

This article won the Chris Robson Memorial Prize in 2001, and was first published in the MAPE Newsletter, Autumn 2001. Rosemary describes how she used software the children were familiar with to design and build websites. She notes the importance of understanding copyright issues, checking content carefully, testing the links and finally taking pride in the live website!