Recycling Bin
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select, format and adjust the properties of shapes when creating the graphic design for a recycling bin for use in school classrooms. The class can combine and layer shapes to produce a graphical model matching selected success criteria.
Select, format and adjust the properties of different shapes when creating the graphic design for a recycling bin for use in school classrooms
Lesson One : Changing Shapes
Explore and demonstrate some of the different ways of adjusting the properties of geometric shapes in a graphical modelling program
Lesson Two : Graphic Lines
Practise different ways of drawing curved and straight lines to represent a range of specific shapes when using a graphic modelling program
Lesson Three : Shape Layers
Investigate and illustrate some of the special ways that can be used to layer and order a range of different shapes in a graphic design with a specific function
Lesson Four : Bin Design
Practise selecting and working with a range of different shapes to create the graphic design for a recycling bin to place in school classrooms
Lesson Five : Bin Review
Explore how to review and edit the completed graphic design of a recycling bin for classrooms in the school to suggest changes and improvements
Lesson Six : Class Bin
Explain and model how to compose and publish a presentation to explain reasons for the design and shapes of a recycling bin for pupils to use in classrooms around the school
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