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Lesson One – Flag Shapes
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise inserting and formatting a range of special shapes using different graphic tools to make a flag representing a specific area or locality.
The class can identify and explain how to draw and insert shapes and then adjust the properties of their fill colour shades when creating a design for a matching flag.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise inserting and formatting a range of special shapes using different graphic tools to make a flag representing a specific area or locality
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes that can be used to represent aspects of a specific area in the local community and a template to select and record the design of shapes to represent the local area on the design of a flag.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to insert and format a range of shapes using different graphic tools to make a flag representing a specific area.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to investigate and practise how to create different graphic shapes that can be utilised when producing a flag representing the local community. 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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