Technology in our homes

Keeping Safe and Exploring Technology – Lesson 3 Objectives Know when and why to take breaks from device time. Consider the feelings of people around them, even when engaged in fun online activities. Lesson Resources Keeping Safe and Exploring Technology – Lesson slides Does it use the internet? – Sorting activity Technology in my home…

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Safety in My Online Neighbourhood

Keeping Safe & Exploring Technology – Lesson 2 A note about this lesson This lesson is taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent Digital Citizenship curriculum. Their resources are shared for free under A Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. As a result, the lesson is free for all to use and can be…

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Media Balance is Important

Keeping Safe & Exploring Technology – Lesson 1 A note about this lesson This lesson is taken from Common Sense Education’s excellent Digital Citizenship curriculum. Their resources are shared for free under A Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. As a result, the lesson is free for all to use and can be…

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Writing In Different Styles

About this unit: Introduce children to word processing and desktop publishing using a number of different tools and design tasks.  National Curriculum Links – Computing KS1 The content of this plan cover the following NC strands:  use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content recognise common uses of information technology beyond…

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Publish it, check it!

Writing In Different Styles – Lessons 5 & 6 Objectives To use two hands for typing To design your own layout for a document To apply simple formatting to text To import images into a document To use a spell checker To compare two pieces of software Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Writing In Different Styles…

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A Blank Canvas

Writing In Different Styles – Lesson 4 Objectives To use two hands for typing To design your own layout for a document To apply simple formatting to text To import images into a document Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Writing In Different Styles Lesson 1 – Terrific Typing Lesson 2 – Read All About It Lesson…

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Kapow! Comic Strips

Writing In Different Styles – Lesson 3 Objectives Begin to use two hands for typing Format text Use speech bubbles, thought bubbles and text boxes Combine images and text Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Writing In Different Styles Lesson 1 – Terrific Typing Lesson 2 – Read All About It Lesson 3 – Kapow! Comic Strips…

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Read All About It

Writing In Different Styles – Lesson 2 Objectives To begin to use two hands for typing To apply simple formatting to text To import images into a document To use keyboard shortcuts to work more efficiently Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Writing In Different Styles Lesson 1 – Terrific Typing Lesson 2 – Read All About…

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Terrific Typing

Writing In Different Styles – Lesson 1 Objectives Begin to use two hands for typing To understand and use good posture when when typing To understand and use Caps Lock and Shift appropriately for typing capital letters. Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Writing In Different Styles Lesson 1 – Terrific Typing Lesson 2 – Read All…

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Interactive stories

Making Multimedia Stories – Lessons 5 & 6 Objectives Use drawing tools effectively (e.g. make use of tools such as fill or shape tools). Add animation effects to individual objects on a page. Make simple changes to selected text, e.g. colour, style and size. Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Headphones for each student (or speakers on…

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