Find out and present

About this unit:

Introduce students to researching information, presenting what they find and creating exciting interactive quizzes.

National Curriculum Links - Computing KS1

The content of this plan cover the following National Curriculum strands:

use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
recognise common uses of information technology beyond school
use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; identify where to go for help and support when they have concerns about content or contact on the internet or other online technologies

Unit Resources

Unit Assessment Sheet

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Lessons

Lesson 1

Know that information can be presented in different ways
Plan the structure for a non-linear presentation
Think of questions to research on a specific topic

Planning a non-linear presentation

Lesson 2

Word process text directly at the computer rather than ‘copying up’ written work.
Select appropriate text, images and sounds to add to work.
Use and explore buttons, arrows, menus and hyperlinks to navigate a website
Using keywords to search a specific resource for information
Locate specific, age appropriate websites by typing a website address (URL)

Starting to research

Lesson 3

Make simple changes to selected text, e.g. colour, style and size.
Begin to understand that images, sounds and text can be subject to copyright.
Understand the need for caution when using the Internet to search for images and what to do if they find unsuitable images (See school’s Acceptable Use Policy/AUP)

Collecting and converting

Lesson 4 & 5

Word process short texts, working directly at the computer rather than ‘copying up’ written work.
Select appropriate text, images and sounds to add to work.
Create a simple presentations for different purposes
Make simple changes to selected text, e.g. colour, style and size

Creating the presentation

Lesson 6

Make simple changes to selected text, e.g. colour, style and size.
Import images into a presentation
Position an image on a specific layer on a page
Make use of graphics, video and sound to enhance text in multimedia work.

Adding animations

Suggested Software

2Connect (from Purple Mash or part of the 2Simple Collection)
2Create (from Purple Mash or part of the 2Simple Collection)

Full Computing Glossary

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Key computing vocabulary for this unit

Alter - to change the way something looks, sometimes using a computer or other digital tools

Copyright - legal protection that a creators have over the things they create

Digital content – any media created, edited or viewed on a computer, such as text (including the hypertext of a web page), images, sound, video, or virtual environments, and combinations of these (i.e. multimedia).

Edit - To change, add or remove elements in a piece of work (usually to improve it).

Export - The opposite of importing and a computing command that usually means saving or sending a file, or part of a file, to a specific new location. It also often allows changing the file format as it’s saved. For example, a Photoshop image could be exported as a PDF document or different images types (PNG, JPEG etc). You might also export content between apps on an iPad. A piece of music could be exported to iMovie to use as a soundtrack for a video.

Format (text) - Text formatting refers to the attributes of text other than the actual text itself. For example: bold, italics, underlining, colour, and size, are all formatting attributes of text.

Import - A computing command that usually means allowing a user to bring in a file, or part of a file into another application so they can be combined. For example, an image could be imported into presentation slides, or art software to use as a background.

Media - all of the ways that large groups of people get and share information (TV, books, internet, newspapers, phones, etc).

Save - To store a piece of work in a computer’s memory so that it can be recalled at a later time.