Alternative Context units

We have created 'Alternative Context' versions of almost all National 1 and 2 Units and all Units that form part of Awards at SCQF levels 1 and 2. The full list of Alternative Context Units is given below.

The Alternative Context Units allow centres to deliver Units for a second time, using a different theme or a different setting from the delivery of the original Unit. The Outcomes and the statement of standards in each of the Alternative Context Units are exactly the same as they are in the original Unit, the only difference is the use of the term 'Alternative Context' at the end of the Unit title and a different Unit code.

Candidates who achieve the original Unit and at a later date, achieve the Alternative Context Unit will be certificated for both Units. Centres should note the following points with regard to the Alternative Context Units:

• A learner must have successfully completed the original Unit before they are entered for the Alternative Context version.
• There should be at least one year between the delivery of the original Unit and the delivery of the Alternative Context version.
• The Unit Assessment Support Packs (UASPs) for the original Units should also be used for the Alternative Context versions and centres should adjust their assessment to reflect the alternative context.
• The Alternative Context Unit codes will not be allowed to contribute towards the completion of a Course or an Award.

National 1 Unit specifications

• Communication: Creating Text (Alternative Context)
• Communication: Interacting in the Community (Alternative Context)
• Communication: Interacting in the Workplace (Alternative Context)
• Communication: Listening and Responding to Scottish Texts (Alternative Context)
• Communication: Listening and Responding to Texts (Alternative Context)
• Communication: Passports (Alternative Context)​
• Communication: Recognising Character in Fiction (Alternative Context)
• Communication: Recognising Signs in the Community (Alternative Context)
• Communication: Recognising Text (Alternative Context)
• Communication: Responding to Ideas in Fiction (Alternative Context)
• Communication: Using Information Texts (Alternative Context)
• Creative Arts: Creating Materials for Display (Alternative Context)
• Creative Arts: Creating Materials for Performance (Alternative Context)
• Creative Arts: Working with Textiles (Alternative Context)
• Food for Health: Healthy Eating (Alternative Context)
• Food Preparation: Baking (Alternative Context)
• Food Preparation: Food Hygiene (Alternative Context)
• Food Preparation: Making a Healthy Basic Meal (Alternative Context)
• Food Preparation: Making a Healthy Hot Dish (Alternative Context)
• Food Preparation: Making a Healthy Snack (Alternative Context)
• Food Preparation: Presenting Food (Alternative Context)
• Food Preparation: Using a Cooker (Alternative Context)
• Food Preparation: Using a Microwave (Alternative Context)
• Food Preparation: Using Small Electrical Equipment in the Kitchen (Alternative Context)
• Independent Living Skills: Common Dangers in the Home (Alternative Context)
• Independent Living Skills: Simple First Aid (Alternative Context)
• Independent Living Skills: Using General Household Electrical Appliances (Alternative Context)
• Information and Communications Technology: Capturing Digital Images (Alternative Context)
• Information and Communications Technology: Searching for Information (Alternative Context)
• Information and Communications Technology: Working with Communications Technologies (Alternative Context)
• Information and Communications Technology: Working with Digital Images (Alternative Context)
• Information and Communications Technology: Working with Multimedia Applications (Alternative Context)
• Information and Communications Technology: Working with Software Applications (Alternative Context)
• Keeping Safe: Adult Relationships (Alternative Context)
• Life in Another Country: Language (Alternative Context)
• Learning in a Different Environment (Alternative Context)
• Music: Exploring Sound and Rhythm (Alternative Context)
• Music: Producing a Sound (Alternative Context)
• My Body: Growing Up and Puberty (Alternative Context)
• Number Skills: Handling Information (Alternative Context)
• Number Skills: Handling Money (Alternative Context)
• Number Skills: Measurement of Length (Alternative Context)
• Number Skills: Measurement of Volume (Alternative Context)
• Number Skills: Measurement of Weight (Alternative Context)
• Number Skills: Number Processes (Alternative Context)
• Number Skills: Recognising Numbers (Alternative Context)
• Number Skills: Shape (Alternative Context)
• Number Skills: Time (Alternative Context)
• Number Skills: Using a Calculator (Alternative Context)
• Performance Arts: Contributing to a Performance (Alternative Context)
• Performance Arts: Using Performance Skills (Alternative Context)
• Personal Development: Developing Positive Behaviour (Alternative Context)
• Personal Development: Experiencing a Work-Related Activity (Alternative Context)
• Personal Development: Finding out about the World of Work (Alternative Context)
• Personal Development: Making a Journey (Alternative Context)
• Personal Development: Managing a Difficult Personal Situation (Alternative Context)
• Personal Development: Personal Hygiene (Alternative Context)
• Personal Development: Personal Organisation (Alternative Context)
• Personal Development: Residential Experience (Alternative Context)
• Physical Education: Improving Performance (Alternative Context)
• Physical Education: Taking Part in a Group Activity (Alternative Context)
• Physical Education: Taking Part in an Individual Activity (Alternative Context)
• Physical Education: Taking Part in a Water-Based Activity (Alternative Context)
• Practical Craft Skills: Making a Craftwork Item (Alternative Context)
• Practical Craft Skills: Working with Craft Tools (Alternative Context)
• Practical Craft Skills: Working with Materials (Alternative Context)
• Preparing for Adult Life (Alternative Context)
• Religious and Moral Education: Religious Festivals (Alternative Context)
• Religious and Moral Education: World Religions (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Energy (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Living Things (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Materials (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Nature and the Environment (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Reduce, Re-use and Recycle (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Everyday Materials (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Forces (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: My Body - Appearance (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Sensory Perception (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Simple Experiments (Alternative Context)
• Social Subjects: Cultural Celebrations and Festivals (Alternative Context)
• Social Subjects: People and Society (Alternative Context)
• Social Subjects: The Natural World (Alternative Context)

National 2 Unit specifications

• Business in Practice: Customer Care (Alternative Context)
• Business in Practice: Taking Part in a Business Enterprise (Alternative Context)
• Business in Practice: Using ICT in Business (Alternative Context)
• Creating Materials for Display (Alternative Context)
• Creating Materials for Performance (Alternative Context)
• Developing Personal Ideas: Performance Art (Alternative Context)
• Developing Skills in Creative Arts (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Agriculture and Horticulture (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Catering and Food Services (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Construction and Engineering (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: General Car Care and Valeting (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Health and Beauty Treatment and Therapies (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Hospitality Services (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Leisure and Sport (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Manufacturing (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Marketing and Events (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Office Administration (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Preparing for Employment (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Retail and Customer Services (Alternative Context)
• Employment Skills: Working with Animals (Alternative Context)
• English and Communication: Creating Texts (Alternative Context)
• English and Communication: Listening and Talking (Alternative Context)
• English and Communication: Understanding Language (Alternative Context)
• English: Responding to Fictional Texts (Alternative Context)
• English: Using Information Texts (Alternative Context)
• Food, Health and Wellbeing: Food for Health (Alternative Context)
• Food, Health and Wellbeing: Food Preparation (Alternative Context)
• Food, Health and Wellbeing: Independent Living Skills (Alternative Context)
• French: Language in Work (Alternative Context)
• French: Life in Another Country (Alternative Context)
• French: Personal Language (Alternative Context)
• French: Transactional Language (Alternative Context)
• Gaelic (Learners): Language in Work (Alternative Context)
• Gaelic (Learners): Life in a Gaelic Speaking Area (Alternative Context)
• Gaelic (Learners): Personal Language (Alternative Context)
• Gaelic (Learners): Transactional Language (Alternative Context)
• Gaidhlig: Creating Texts (Alternative Context)
• Gaidhlig: Understanding Language (Alternative Context)
• German: Language in Work (Alternative Context
• German: Life in Another Country (Alternative Context)
• German: Personal Language (Alternative Context)
• German: Transactional Language (Alternative Context)
• Information and Communications Technology: Communications Applications (Alternative Context)
• ICT Applications (Alternative Context)
• Independent Living Skills: Personal Organisation (Alternative Context)
• Independent Living Skills: Taking Part in a Residential Experience (Alternative Context)
• Independent Living Skills: Taking Part in Outdoor Activities (Alternative Context)
• Information and Communication Technology: Capturing Digital Images (Alternative Context)
• Information and Communications Techology: Working with Digital Images (Alternative Context)
• Internet Applications (Alternative Context)
• Italian: Language in Work (Alternative Context)
• Italian: Life in Another Country (Alternative Context)
• Italian: Personal Language (Alternative Context)
• Italian: Transactional Language (Alternative Context)
• Lifeskills Mathematics: Measurement (Alternative Context)
• Lifeskills Mathematics: Money (Alternative Context)
• Lifeskills Mathematics: Number and Number Processes (Alternative Context)
• Lifeskills Mathematics: Shape, Space and Data (Alternative Context)
• Lifeskills Mathematics: Time (Alternative Context)
• Media: Creating Media Products - Group Activity (Alternative Context)
• Media: Creating Media Products - Individual Activity (Alternative Context)
• Media: Investigating Media Products (Alternative Context)
• Multimedia Applications (Alternative Context)
• Performance Arts : Contributing to a Performance (Alternative Context)
• Performance Arts: Developing Performance Skills (Alternative Context)
• Physical Education: Factors Affecting Performance (Alternative Context)
• Physical Education: Improving Performance (Alternative Context)
• Physical Education: Taking Part in Physical Activities (Alternative Context)
• Practical Craft Skills: Making a Craftwork Item (Alternative Context)
• Practical Craft Skills: Working with Craft Tools: An Introduction (Alternative Context)
• Practical Craft Skills: Working with Materials (Alternative Context)
• Religious and Moral Education: Investigating Morality (Alternative Context)
• Religious and Moral Education: World Religions (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Managing an Environmental Area (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Living Things (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Resources, Forces and Energy (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Sustainable Lifestyles (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Exploring Everyday Materials (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Forces (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Keeping Our Planet Healthy (Alternative Context)
• Science in the Environment: Living Things (Alternative Context)
• Science: Practical Experiments (Alternative Context)
• Self-Awareness: Building Positive Relationships (Alternative Context)
• Self-Awareness: Personal Health and Wellbeing (Alternative Context)
• Social Subjects: Making a Contrast (Alternative Context)
• Social Subjects: Making a Decision (Alternative Context)
• Social Subjects: Organising and Communicating Information (Alternative Context)
• Spanish: Language in Work (Alternative Context)
• Spanish: Life in Another Country (Alternative Context)
• Spanish: Personal Language (Alternative Context)
• Spanish: Transactional Language (Alternative Context)
• Using Performance Skills (Alternative Context)
• Working with Images, Graphics and Sound (Alternative Context)
• Working with Textiles (Alternative Context)

SCQF level 1 Unit specifications

• Cycle Safety Checks (Alternative Context)
• Cycling Safely (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Community Activity (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Eco-Awareness (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Enterprise (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Exploring a Local Area (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Financial Awareness (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Fundraising (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Having Your Say (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Healthy Eating (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Hobbies and Interests (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Looking After Animals (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Looking After Your Home (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Performing Arts - Group Activity (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Performing Arts - Individual Activity (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Personal Health (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Personal Presentation (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Personal Relationships (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Promoting Health (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Safety and Security (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Social Events (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Travel in the Community (Alternative Context)

SCQF level 2 Unit specifications

• Cycle Safety and Maintenance (Alternative Context)
• Cycling Safely (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Community Activity (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Eco-Awareness (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Enterprise (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Exploring a Local Area (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Financial Awareness (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Fundraising (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Having Your Say (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Healthy Eating (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Hobbies and Interests (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Looking After Animals (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Looking After Your Home (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Performing Arts - Group Activity (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Performing Arts - Individual Activity (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Personal Health (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Personal Presentation (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Personal Relationships (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Promoting Health (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Safety and Security (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Social Events (Alternative Context)
• Personal Achievement: Travel in the Community (Alternative Context)
• Practical Abilities: Independent Living (Alternative Context
• Practical Abilities: Making Journeys (Alternative Context)
• Practical Abilities: Personal Finance (Alternative Context)
• Self and Work: Completing a Work Placement (Alternative Context)
• Self and Work: Enterprise Activity (Alternative Context)
• Self and Work: Investigating the Workplace (Alternative Context)
• Self in Community: Investigating Service Providers in the Local Community (Alternative Context)
• Self in Community: Leisure Time Activities (Alternative Context)