Lesson One – Changing Shapes
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and demonstrate some of the different ways of adjusting the properties of geometric shapes in a graphical modelling program.
The class can explain and record how to transform the size, position, colour and appearance of different graphic shapes when making specific adjustments and changes.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and demonstrate some of the different ways of adjusting the properties of geometric shapes in a graphical modelling program
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how to adjust the properties of different graphic shapes and differentiated templates to record some of the changes that can be made to different shapes using a graphics program.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and demonstrate different ways of adjusting geometric shapes in a graphical modelling program.
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