Combining images and sounds

Exploring Digital Sound – Lesson 5  Objectives Create images to accompany a soundtrack. Import sound files to create multimedia pages. Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Sound effects folder Headphones Exploring Digital Sound Lesson 1 – Exploring Simple Sounds Lesson 2 – Composing a Beat Lesson 3 – Digital Composition Lesson 4 – Building a tune Lesson…

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Building a tune

Exploring Digital Sound – Lesson 4 Objectives Explore a range of electronic music and sound devices and software. To combine layers of sound to compose a simple tune with a beat. Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Headphones Exploring Digital Sound   Lesson 1 – Exploring Simple Sounds Lesson 2 – Composing a Beat Lesson 3 -…

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Digital Composition

Exploring Digital Sound – Lesson 3 Objectives To combine sounds to compose a simple tune with a beat. Explore a range of electronic music and sound devices and software. Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Headphones Exploring Digital Sound Lesson 1 – Exploring Simple Sounds Lesson 2 – Composing a Beat Lesson 3 – Digital Composition Lesson…

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Composing a beat

Exploring Digital Sound – Lesson 2 Objectives To combine layers of sound to compose a simple tune with a beat. Explore a range of electronic music and sound devices and software. Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Headphones Exploring Digital Sound Lesson 1 – Exploring Simple Sounds Lesson 2 – Composing a Beat Lesson 3 – Digital…

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Exploring Simple Sounds

Exploring Digital Sound – Lesson 1  Objectives Explore making simple sounds Explore a range of electronic music and sound devices and software. Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Children’s links presentation Headphones Exploring Digital Sound Lesson 1 – Exploring Simple Sounds Lesson 2 – Composing a Beat Lesson 3 – Digital Composition Lesson 4 – Building a…

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Searching Databases

Finding and Presenting Information – Lesson 6 Objectives Use a database program, where appropriate, to sort and identify items. Use basic search tools in a prepared database to answer simple questions, e.g., how many children have brown hair? Lesson Resources Lesson slides ‘Children’ database questions sheet (Purple Mash version)  ‘Our Class’ database question sheet (2Simple…

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Branching Databases

Finding and Presenting Information – Lesson 5 Objectives Sort and classify a group of items by asking simple yes / no questions. This may take place away from the computer, e.g. a ‘Guess Who’ game. Develop classification skills by carrying out sorting activities. Lesson Resources Lesson slides Finding and Presenting Information   Lesson 1 -…

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Creating Graphs from Data

Finding and Presenting Information – Lessons 3 & 4 Objectives Use simple graphing software to produce pictograms and other basic tables or graphs. Use graphing software to enter data and change a graph type, e.g. pictogram to bar chart. Interpret and draw conclusions from graphs, discuss information contained and answer simple questions. Lesson Resources Lesson…

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Searching Sites

Finding and Presenting Information – Lesson 2 Objectives Use and explore buttons, arrows, menus and hyperlinks to navigate a website. Using keywords to safety search a specific resource for information. Locate specific websites by typing a website address into the address bar. Begin to evaluate web sites by giving opinions about preferred or most useful…

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Looking for facts

Finding and Presenting Information – Lesson 1 Objectives Use and explore buttons, arrows, menus and hyperlinks to navigate teacher selected web sites. Understand a website has a unique address and the need for precision when typing it. Know what to do and who to tell if they see something inappropriate on a website Lesson Resources…

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