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1. Go to Classroom and open the document to work on
2. Rainfall in Wiltshire
   1. Create a line graph from the rainfall data
   2. Underneath the graph write three sentences about what the graph shows
3. Shoe sizes
   1. Create a table to record shoe sizes in your class
   2. Create a bar graph from the data
   3. Write two sentences about what the graph shows.
4. Boy/girl preferences
   1. Create a table with three columns: Favourite thing, Boys, Girls,
   2. Enter the data from the class survey
   3. Create a double bar chart of the data
   4. Write two sentence about what the graph shows.
5. ** Do big countries have more people?
   1. Create a table with columns: country, population, area
   2. Visit this website to collect the data from some countries
   3. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/
   4. Create a scatter graph from the data
   5. How can you tell if it shows you the answer to the question?

Success steps

In two different mind map tools:

• 4-6 main branches
• At least 2 sub branches
• Three layers of branches
• Different colours for main branches
• At least one picture for each main branch
• Correct branch structure of ideas
• A4 landscape shape (print preview to test)

Rivers

• Finish your rivers poster
  • Start a new j2e5 page
  • Make a new table with 1 column and 10 rows
  • Visit this website to find out the longest rivers in the world and their lengths:  http://www.ducksters.com/geography/worldrivers.php
  • Put the information in your table
  •  Create a graph from your table by selecting it and clicking the graph button
  • Add a picture of the world with the rivers labelled (in shared pictures)
  • Add a title and make the page into an attractive poster – make things as big as possible to fill the page.

Mountains

• Create another poster about the tallest mountains on each continent
• Use the information here:  http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/li/List_of_mountains
• Search for “seven summits map” to find a map of the world with these mountains marked on – add it to your poster
• Add a title and some pictures

Famous Ships

• Open this j2e page:  https://www.j2e.com/st-marks-wilts-sch-uk/Mr+W/Y3+Famous+ships+with+table/
• Save
•  Complete the table by putting in the lengths of the ships
• Create a horizontal bar chart and make it the width of the page
• Send the graph to the back by clicking 
• Make each ship the length of the bar on the bar chart.
• Delete the bar chart
• Line up the ships to make a bar chart of ships
• Make the page into an attractive poster
  • add a title
  • could add a ship page border
  • don’t resize the ships!

Spiders!

• Visit this website about British spiders:
• http://britishspiders.org.uk/wiki2015/index.php?title=Category:Spider_Species
• For each type of spider:
  • Find its length in cm.  You could use CTRL-F and enter cm to find it quickly on the page
  • On another tab, search for a picture of the spider – use “.png ” in your search to find pictures without a background, eg “huntsman spider .png”
  • Copy and paste the image to your j2e5 page
  • Use the ruler or measuring tool to make the spider the correct size
  • Label the spider

Online mind maps

1. Login to j2e
2. Go to “my files” – are your mind map files there?
3. If not, try clicking on  and check again when it has updated
4. Some of you have lots of the same mind map – delete any spares by right-hand clicking – delete.  (Don’t get rid of any that have a grade in j2review)
5. If you haven’t shared your mind map with me, try again this week.

Thinking with pictures

1. On the desktop, click on “Icons 64” and find “Thinking with pictures”
2. Explore the tools in Thinking with pictures to make another mind map about animals:
   1. Main branches:
      1. Birds
      2. Mammals
      3. Insects
      4. Fish
      5. Reptiles
   2. Include these words:
      1. lays eggs,  6 legs, feathers, no legs, babies feed on milk, cold blooded, warm blooded, wings, sea, rivers, fur, scales, eagle, badger, fly, snake, lizard
3. Save your mind map in your named folder

Reflect

• Which mind map tool do you prefer? Why?
• Is it better to be online or not?  What are the advantages/disadvantages?