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Lesson Five – Sign Designs
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explain and model how to use a range of keyboard skills to create signs that can be displayed in different locations that can be found around a town or city.
The class can explain and record how to save and retrieve their documents containing examples of signs to match different functions such as shop or traffic signs.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to use a range of keyboard skills to create signs that can be displayed in different locations that can be found around a town or city
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe signs that could be displayed in a city for different functions and a set of cards to select and make signs to match different locations that could be seen around a city.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use keyboard skills to create signs for different locations that can be found around a town or city.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to practise and refine skills in formatting and editing text in word processed documents to make different signs suitable for a range of locations in a city. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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