Key Stage Two : Computing : Museum Exhibition : Lesson Four – Slide Backgrounds


This computing teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and configure a range of different backgrounds to use on slides in a multimedia presentation. The children can identify effective combinations of font and background colours so that the slide is easy to read and interpret.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and configure a range of different backgrounds to use on slides in a multimedia presentation

Learning Objectives

How to develop and refine ideas by bringing together, organising and reorganising a multimedia slide. How to share and exchange information in a variety of forms.

Learning Outcomes

I can select the best font and background colours to make text easy to read on a multimedia slide. I can identify different ways to present information on a topic.

Slide Backgrounds

Teaching sequence to help the children select and configure a range of different backgrounds to use on slides in a multimedia presentation

Text and Backgrounds

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the class identify and describe the most effective ways of presenting information on a multimedia slide

Changing Backgrounds

Shared reading text for whole class discussion to help the children practise changing the colour of a range of different backgrounds to the slides in a multimedia presentation

Slide Backgrounds

Interactive activity to help the children select and configure a range of different backgrounds to use on slides in a multimedia presentation

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and configure a range of different backgrounds to use on slides in a multimedia presentation

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