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.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to select, format and adjust the properties of different shapes when creating the graphic design for a recycling bin for use in school classrooms. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
-
Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
-
Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
-
Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
-
Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team