Lesson Two – Ship Names
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to select and record the names of different ships moored in a harbour using a keyboard to type matching capital and lowercase letters.
The class can practise using the computer to correctly type the name for a ship or boat in a harbour so that the label can be read easily and understood by harbour users.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to select and record the names of different ships moored in a harbour using a keyboard to type matching capital and lowercase letters
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe how to make labels for the names of different ships using capital letters and a worksheet to practise changing lowercase letters into capitals to display the names of ships and boats moored in a harbour.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record the names of ships and boats using a keyboard to type matching capital and lowercase letters.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to practise structuring and formatting different word processed documents to describe a range of ships and boats seen in a harbour. 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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