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Lesson Two – Street Signs
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise typing capital letters using a computer keyboard to produce some example signs that might be seen in a particular location in a city.
The class can identify and explain the meaning of any of the vocabulary words that have been displayed on signs found in different places such as instructional signs for playgrounds.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise typing capital letters using a computer keyboard to produce some example signs that might be seen in a particular location in a city
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain the meaning of different signs that might be seen in different locations around a city and a template to model how to type the text for some of the signs that can be displayed for a range of functions in city locations.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to type capital letters using the keyboard to make signs that might be seen in a particular location in a 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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