Home : Key Stage Two : Computing : Viking Longships
Lesson Three – Mixing Shapes
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate and illustrate different ways of layering and ordering shapes in a graphic design. The class can copy some example graphics by combining pairs of shapes to make some new designs for a Viking Longship sail.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to investigate and illustrate different ways of layering and ordering shapes in a graphic design
Learning Objectives
How to adjust and manipulate shapes using the computer. How to develop and refine ideas by bringing together, organising and reorganising images.
Learning Outcomes
I can explain how to change the properties of a shape in a graphics program. I can combine and adjust pairs of shapes to create a new design.
Mixing Shapes
Teaching sequence to help the children investigate and illustrate different ways of layering and ordering shapes in a graphic design
What Shapes
Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children explain how to combine a range of different shapes to make new graphic designs
New Shapes
Activity to help the children practise combining pairs of different shapes to build new graphic designs to match a specific topic
Mixing Shapes
Interactive activity to help the children investigate and illustrate different ways of layering and ordering shapes in a graphic design
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to investigate and illustrate different ways of layering and ordering shapes in a graphic design
- Subtraction Sports
Solve a range of number problems about different sports by subtracting pairs of three and four digit numbers - Garden Insects
Practise multiplying two digit numbers by two, four and eight to calculate numbers of insects living in a garden - Athletics
Develop and refine different athletic skills in running, throwing and jumping to use when performing and competing in a class athletics competition - Class Games
Compete in sprinting, throwing and jumping events to develop skills and techniques in athletics