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Module: Communicating (Advanced)

Year Group: Year 6

Date: May/June 2000

 

Key Question/Skill

Activity

Resources

Organisation

Assessment Opportunities

History: unit 5g
Characteristic features relating to religious beliefs.
Investigate an historical topic.
Select, recall and organise historical information.
Present results in a variety of ways.

Language:
Research skills involving locating and using ideas and information.
Retrieving and collating information from a range of sources.
Ideas are appropriately organised for the purpose and the audience.

ICT:
Communicate ideas considering the audience.
Create and edit text frames and text flows.
Access the Internet to extract information and images.
Import and modify graphics.
Save, recall and edit work.
Create and link two or more pages together.
Prepare and send an e-mail with attachment.

To create a linked document.
Choose two Gods/Goddesses and use Textease to make a separate document for each.
Each document should contain important information relating to the chosen deity .
The writing should be contained within text frames that have been linked to create text flows.
There must also be images selected from the previously book marked web sites.
Design a cover for the linked document.
Design an e-mail attachment in the form of an invitation and send it to another computer.

This task is to be differentiated.
Two activity cards have been drawn up which will allow each  member of the class to achieve success.

Observation and discussion will allow children to move between the activities as necessary.

Textease.

Book marked web sites.

Activity sheets, (located in computer file adjacent to each computer).

Textease guide, (located in computer file, for reference).

Prepared e-mail, (for demonstration of attachment).

 

 

Two children seated at each computer. (Due to the location of the two computers this allows extra discussion to take place).

Quickly revise familiar elements of Textease, (more time will be needed if elements are not sound).

Introduce new concepts such as:
Text frames, text flows, (when creating their documents).
Preparing to link pages (discuss need to isolate images and/or words when drawing up the title page in readiness for linking).
Link pages.

How to send an attachment.


As children complete the activity they then become consultants to their peers.

Can the children:

Extract images from the WWW?

Insert and edit images and text into a DTP package?

Create and edit text frames and text flows?

Design pages that are suitable for their audience?

Create pages and form links between them?

Save, retrieve and amend work?

Prepare a file to be sent as an e-mail attachment?

Module Information

Evaluation

New Opportunities Fund