Innovate ICT, Grade 2, is the computer studies book in the Allied Schools Class 2 list. It is published by AEP | arvo education press and carries the SRM mark on its cover. Allied Schools is a project of the Punjab Group of Colleges, and this book is what its Class 2 students use in the computer lab and at home when a teacher sets computer homework.
The cover shows a bright study room with purple walls: a girl in a blue dress and dark hijab types on a silver laptop at a low table, while a boy in glasses sits on a bed with a black laptop on his knees. The message is that computers are something a child uses to make things, not just to watch. The contents pages back that up with eight units and a glossary across roughly 120 pages.
Contents: eight units and a glossary
- Unit 1 – ICT Fundamentals: Computer Journey (pages 1-17). How computers grew from simple machines into powerful tools, how they differ from other machines, what they do in daily life, and how computers compare with humans.
- Unit 2 – ICT Fundamentals: Computer Storage (pages 18-29). The components of a computer, input and output devices, what storage is and the types of storage devices.
- Unit 3 – ICT Fundamentals: Online Surfing (pages 30-41). What the internet and a computer network are, why the internet is important, basic internet vocabulary, opening a web browser and reaching a safe website, and how to stay safe online.
- Unit 4 – E-safety: Privacy Matters (pages 42-52). Personal information and why to keep it private online and offline, using devices safely and identifying trusted adults.
- Unit 5 – Digital Skills: Draw with MS Paint (pages 53-72). A recap of MS Paint, opening the program, the brush, text and shapes tools, different brush styles, organising and saving artwork and naming pictures clearly.
- Unit 6 – Digital Skills: Introduction to Microsoft Word (pages 73-89). The Word interface, creating a new document, saving and closing it and basic formatting.
- Unit 7 – Programming: ScratchJr (pages 90-110). Choosing or drawing a background, choosing or editing a character, using advanced blocks to move characters, making a character dance, learning loops and conditions, and building a greeting animation step by step.
- Unit 8 – Computational and Design Thinking: Problem Solving and Entrepreneurship (pages 111-120). Understanding problems and needs, the steps to solve a birthday card problem, the basics of entrepreneurship and a birthday card business.
- Glossary
Why the order works
The three ICT Fundamentals units come first because a Class 2 child needs the vocabulary before the skills: what a computer is, what its parts do, where files are stored. Unit 3 then introduces the internet, and Unit 4 – directly after it – makes privacy and trusted adults a topic in its own right. That placement matters; a child who has just learned to open a browser is immediately taught how to use it safely.
The middle units are hands-on. MS Paint (twenty pages) teaches a child to draw, type text into a picture, and save and name a file. Microsoft Word follows with the basics of a document. ScratchJr – the block-based coding tool for young children – takes the longest unit in the book, twenty-one pages, and lets them make a character move and dance using loops and conditions. Unit 8 finishes by tying everything together in a small project: work out what a friend needs, make a birthday card, and treat it as a tiny business.
Who it is for
This book is for Class 2 students at Allied Schools and for parents who want to follow what their child is doing on the computer. Some of the units assume access to MS Paint, Word and the ScratchJr app at school, so check with the class teacher what your child will use at home.
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