The following planning aims to provide children with a platform to apply and extend their ICT skills whilst learning how to manipulate images.
This planning may be used to support learning in year 3 as part of the New Bristol ICT scheme of work or used to extend Gifted and Talented children via targeted intervention groups/clubs.
Learning Objectives
Children will develop an understanding of how to use an art/publishing program to import and manipulate images.
Children will develop an understanding of how to search the internet for sources of information/resources safely.
Children will begin to understand the importance of adhering to copyright laws
Learning Outcome
· I can download images to a computer and save in a relevant location without help.
· I can make changes to images, adding text or titles.
· I can find appropriate images on the internet to use in my work.
· I can resize and crop photographs for different applications.
· I can change font size, type and colour.
· I can change the properties of a shape.
I understand the importance of adhering to copyright laws.
Lesson 1:
Inform children that over the next 7 lessons they will be using ICT to support learning in History/Geography. Introduce children to the concept of ‘Top Trumps’. Allow children to play the game in small groups. Create a mind map of how you could adapt this popular game to support learning in your History/Geography topic. Show children a set of ‘Topic Trump’ cards (Lesson One Topic Trump Cards) created for a World War 2 History topic lesson. Model how to use the ‘functionality’ of the art/publishing program. Demonstrate how to change the background colour of the cards, font, font size, and font colour. Provide children with an opportunity to practise these key skills using the Topic Trump card template.
Questioning –
· Why is it important to think carefully about the background and font colours?
· Why are some fonts not suitable for the Topic Trump cards?
· How could we ensure that the front and back of the cards are printed on the same piece of paper?
· Is it Ok to copy any image from the internet?
Useful Websites:
Alternative Card Template |
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Top Trump Website |
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Resources
Lesson 1 Topic Trump Card Template |
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Decide on a ‘theme’ and a set of ‘categories’ for your Topic Trump cards before the start of the next lesson.
Lesson 2
Teacher may wish to allow children to work in pairs to create a set of Topic Trump Cards or to set each child the challenge of creating two cards which will contribute towards making a class set.
Teacher to model how to use the art/publishing program to:
· Change the background colour of the cards
· Chang the colour and thickness of the border
· Change the font, font size and colour
· Use the ‘undo’ and ‘redo’ buttons
Children to practise editing the card templates, saving their working into an appropriate folder at the end of the lesson.
Questions
· What is the disadvantage of everyone’s historical character having a different colour back and front?
· Why is it important to think carefully about the background and font colours?
· Why are some fonts not suitable for the Topic Trump cards?
· Why are the undo and redo buttons useful?
· Is there a keyboard shortcut for undo and redo?
Resources
Whole Set Topic Trump Cards Template | |
Two Topic Trump Cards Template | |
By the end of this lesson children will have manipulated the properties of their cards; used the undo/redo buttons and saved their work in an appropriate folder.
Lesson 3
Children to dress up as one or more of the historical characters associated with their Topic Trump cards. Teacher to model how to use a digital camera/webcam to take a photograph and upload/transfer it onto a computer. Teacher to demonstrate how to:
· Import a photograph into the Topic Trump Project
· Change size of photograph
· Crop photograph
· Change photograph formatting
· Add a border to a photograph
· Change the photograph colour to black and white or grey scale.
By the end of this lesson children will have taken a photograph; manipulated its properties; inserted a photograph into a Topic Trump project and saved their work into an appropriate folder.
Questions
· What top tips would you give to someone taking a photograph?
· What is the keyboard short cut for ‘undo’ and ‘redo’?
· Why are keyboard short cuts useful?
· How many different ways can you think of to manipulate a photograph?
· Do you know of any specialised image/photo-manipulating software?
Lesson 4
Model how to use a ‘safe’ search engine such as Swiggle to research a historical character. Provide children with the opportunity to practise using the internet as a research tool to find out one interesting fact about their historical character(s). Children to apply their knowledge from previous lessons to write an ‘interesting fact’ about their historical character(s) on the back of the card.
Questions
· What is a search engine?
· How many different search engines can you think of?
· Why is Swiggle safer than some search engines?
· Can we trust everything we read on the internet?
· Why might it not be a good idea to write an ‘interesting fact’ on the back of the card?
Useful Websites:
Lesson 5
Teacher to discuss with children how they might generate statistics for their Topic Trump cards. Discuss how some categories such as date of birth will not need to have a number generated as it is based on fact. Categories which are subjective such ‘Strength’ and ‘Tactical Knowledge’ will need to have statistic generated randomly.
Questions
· Is there a fair way of producing statistics for the Topic Trump cards?
· Should different categories have different scale ratings? (e.g. Strength out of 100, Tactical Knowledge out of 50)
· Do all categories need a random number generated?
Once you have agreed on a method for generating statistics, children to generate their data and insert numerical values into their cards.
Useful Websites:
Random.org |
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Randomizer.org |
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Virtual Dice |
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Random.org Virtual Dice |
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Resources
Image Manipulation AFL Sheet | |
Image Manipulation Peer Assessment Sheet | |
At the end of the lesson children to self assess themselves against the AFL criteria outlined at the start of the project. Children to reflect on what they have done well and what they would like to improve on if they were to use these skills again. This would also be an excellent opportunity for children to peer assess each other.
Teacher to ensure that children have printed their project before the start of lesson 6.
Lesson 6
Split class into groups. Ensure that each group has a set of the Topic Trump cards. Ensure that children are clear about the rules before they start. Allow children to compete against one another. At the end of the lesson review progress against the AFL criteria.
Lesson 7
Inform children that they will have one lesson to independently create their own ‘Super’ Topic Trump which will later be add ed to the pack used in lesson 6. Children can change any aspect of the design but they must keep the same categories and method for generating statistics. You may wish to provide children with photographs or alternatively allow them to take their own photographs. Children to use the self assessment guidelines to structure the task. At the end of the lesson children to reflect on how they have improved since the start of the image manipulation module.
Questions
· How has your learning changed over the past seven lessons?
· What have I learnt about the historical figures?
· What did I do well?
· What is your next learning step?
· What would you do differently if you were to repeat this task?
· What would you do the same?
Teacher may wish to laminate some of the Topic Trump sets to use as a teaching resource with younger children or next year’s cohort.
Resources
Image Manipulation AFL Sheet | |
Image Manipulation Peer Assessment Sheet | |
Processes (link to APP AF1)
Planning –Are students able to plan how to use ICT to make a Topic Trump Card.
Developing – Are students able to explain how and why they used ICT to create Topic Trump cards.
Evaluating –Are students able to identify ways of improving their use of ICT.
