Y4 LF: Mindmaps (3)

May 022018
 

Previous post – Mindmaps (2)

Open and add

  1. Go to Google Drive
  2. Open your mind map from last week
  3. Add ideas to your mind map

Share your Coggle

  1. Share your Coggle by entering my email address

More techniques

  1. Create an unconnected idea.
  2. Create links – dashed lines – between ideas
  3. Insert symbols – label most important/interesting facts with !
    1. Create a key idea to show what the symbols mean
  4. Questions and comments
    1. Add a ?  symbol to an idea – then add a comment to that idea – a question about rivers
  5. Add hyperlinks to websites about Rivers

Preparing to print

  1. Fitting to print area
    1. Fit your Coggle on your screen – with not much spare space
    2. It will then be the right shape to print on A4 landscape
  2. Exporting
    1. Save the Coggle as a picture
    2. Email the picture to me
    3. Copy the picture into a j2e5 page

 

Checklist

  1. TEXT  Biggest in middle, then getting smaller
  2. PICTURES  Simple, cartoon/clip art pictures for some branches
  3. STRUCTURE – Title –> Chapters –> Sections –> Info –> Details
  4. SHARE with me
  5. SYMBOLS – for most important info and ?s
  6. FIT to rectangle – fill gaps

 

More information on Rivers

  1. You could get some ideas for main branches and information here:

Y3 LF: Bar charts in j2e5 (3)

May 012018
 

Choose one of these projects:

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

Rivers

  • 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

LF Understanding the Internet

May 012018
 
  1. Prezi
    1. http://prezi.com/v7mm9_wuxizf/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
  2. Packet’s tale
    1. http://viewpure.com/ewrBalT_eBM?start=0&end=0
  3. Mysterious cables
    1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/oct/23/mysterious-cable-uk-us
  4. Submarine cable map
    1. https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
  5. http://viewpure.com/H9R4tznCNB0?start=0&end=0
  6. Packet game
  7. How do search engines work?
    1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/ztbjq6f#zqdfyrd
  8. BBC KS2 Computer Science
    1. https://www.bbc.com/education/topics/zs7s4wx

Y4 LF: Mind maps (2)

Apr 242018
 

Previous post – Mindmaps (1)

  • Go to Google Drive
  • Open your mind map from last week
  • Add ideas to your mind map
  • Can you…
    • Make the text bigger for main branches? (Drag the corner)
    • Add a picture?
      • On a new tab, find a picture
      • Click tools – clipart (we need really simple pictures)
      • Save image
      • In Coggle, click on the picture button and find your picture in Downloads or My Drive
  • ** In Coggle
    • Use the ? menu to learn how to do tasks quicker (shortcuts)
    • Click on markdown  on ? menu to find out how to format text
  • You could get some ideas for main branches and information here:

Success steps

  • recall ideas from topic;
  • classify ideas;
  • understand branch structure/rules of mindmaps;
  • explore new software with curiosity and positivity;
  • load blog.

Next post – Mindmaps (3)

Y3 LF: Bar charts in j2e5 (2)

Apr 242018
 

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 ScreenHunter_80 May. 08 14.22
  • 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!

Take a screenshot on Chromebook

Apr 202018
 

CTRL + 

This will save it to your files in Google Drive

Click “Copy to clipboard” then you can go a document, eg j2e5, Google Slides,… and click CTRL-V to paste

You will need to crop the bits you don’t want – in j2e5, select it then drag the blue side squares

 

Thank you to Luke for discovering this for us!

Y6 Picasso

Apr 202018
 

j2e5

  •   Picture –  – camera – 
  • Take pictures of front, left, right face
  • On one page
  • Fill the page, eg one big, two small
  • Crop (drag blue side squares) to get rid of background
  • 3 pictures
  • Save as “picasso”

Mr Picassohead!

  • Create your own Picasso-style line drawing
  • http://www.picassohead.com/create.html
  • When yo have finished:
    • CTRL – square with two lines  
    • Copy to clipboard
    • Go to new j2e5 page
    • CTRL – V  paste
    • Crop and enlarge
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