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Lesson Four – Sail Design

This computing teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to insert and adjust a range of different shapes to create a design for a Viking Long Ship sail. The children can try adjusting, colouring and layering shapes to make the graphic of a Viking warrior to display on a sail.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to insert and adjust a range of different shapes to create a design for a Viking Long Ship sail

Learning Objectives

How to develop and refine ideas by bringing together, organising and reorganising images. Think carefully about the content and quality when communicating information.

Learning Outcomes

I can insert and adjust shapes to produce an image that reflects a particular topic or idea. I can say how to produce a design to match a specific purpose.

Sail Design

Teaching sequence to help the children insert and adjust a range of different shapes to create a design for a Viking Long Ship sail

Viking Graphics

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children evaluate some of the graphics images used to match a particular topic

Sail Design Instructions

Shared reading text to help the children produce a graphic image to reflect sails that might be flown on a Viking Long Ship

Long Ship Sail

Template to help the children select and record shapes that could be used to make a graphic on the theme of the Vikings

Sail Design

Interactive activity to help the children insert and adjust a range of different shapes to create a design for a Viking Long Ship sail

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to insert and adjust a range of different shapes to create a design for a Viking Long Ship sail

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