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Recycling Bin
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select, format and adjust the properties of different shapes when creating the graphic design for a recycling bin for use in school classrooms. The class can combine and layer shapes to produce a graphical model matching selected success criteria.
Select, format and adjust the properties of different shapes when creating the graphic design for a recycling bin for use in school classrooms
Lesson One : Changing Shapes
Explore and demonstrate different ways of adjusting geometric shapes in a graphical modelling program
Lesson Two : Graphic Lines
Practise different ways of drawing curved and straight lines to represent shapes using a graphic modelling program
Lesson Three : Shape Layers
Explore and illustrate ways of layering and ordering different shapes in a graphic design
Lesson Four : Bin Design
Select and use a range of different shapes to create the graphic design for a school recycling bin
Lesson Five : Bin Review
Review and edit the completed graphic design of a recycling bin for classrooms in the school
Lesson Six : Class Bin
Compose and publish a presentation to explain reasons for the design of a recycling bin for classrooms in the school
- Number Rounding
Practise comparing and rounding numbers to six digits to their nearest ten, hundred and thousand by utilising the place value of their digits - Number Lines
Identify how to complete different number sequences counting in powers of ten - Number Changes
Select and round a range of different six digit numbers to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand - Rounding Thousands
Compare a selection of different six digit numbers by rounding them to the nearest thousand using the values of their numerical digits