Bebras competition 2020

Nov 102020
 
  1. Go to the Bebras website
  2. Select the age group then start
  3. Make sure you check the answers so you can learn from your mistakes or your successes
  4. If you have finished, choose one of the following:
    1. Have a go at Lightbot 
      1. To allow flash – click padlock, site settings, Flash – allow
    2. j2code – LOGO or another j2code app
    3. code.org

Y3 LF: Bar chart in j2e5 (1) – Around the World

Apr 202020
 

Activity 1 – Make a table

  1. Start a new j2e5 page
  2. Make a new table   with 1 column and 7 rows
  3. Copy this information into your table
    1. (Continent)            Million people
    2. Africa                        1276
    3. Antarctica                0.002
    4. Asia                           4561
    5. Europe                       746
    6. North America          583
    7. Oceania                        42
    8. South America           424
  4. Save the page as:  World information

Figures from Wikipedia

**Why might the numbers be different from the ones I have given above?

** Look at this live World Population Counter

 Video instructions for Activity 1

Activity 2 – create a bar chart

  1. Create a bar chart from your table by selecting it (click on top left box) and clicking the graph button 
  2. Move the table and bar chart next to each other.
  3. Add the following title:

  4. A bar chart to show how many million people live in each continent.

Video instructions for Activity 2

Activity 3 – Make a poster

  1. Add a picture of  the world’s continents
    1. I have shared a blank one that you could label
  2. Add a title: The continents of the world
  3. Add some facts, for example from these websites:
    1. https://www.q-files.com/geography/
    2. https://www.kids-world-travel-guide.com/continent-facts.html

Video instructions for Activity 3

Activity 4 – Finish your poster

  1. Make the page into an attractive poster – fill the page, addnore pictures and information.
  2. Success criteria
    1. Fill the page
    2. Graph and chart together
    3. Fact box
    4. Big title
    5. Even spacing – no big gaps or squashed items

Follow on activities

1 Cool text

When you have checked the success criteria, then you could do this extension task to make a more interesting title.

  1. Go to https://cooltext.com/
  2. Choose a suitable style
  3. Type “Continents of the World”
  4. Change settings – you can choose a better font here too
  5. Drag onto your j2e5 page instead of your title

Activity 5 Perfecting your poster

For a perfect poster, make sure:

  • lots of pictures and information filling the page
  • things are spread evenly – no big gaps or squashed bits
  • gaps between things the same

More pages

Add a page to your file by clicking on the  in the bottom right corner of your page. You could make a page about:

  • one of the continents
  • the land area of the continents including another table and graph
  • information about the sea and oceans
  • a table and chart of highest mountains of the world, longest rivers, etc

Y3 LF Scratch animated words

Mar 022020
 
  1. Go to Scratch
  2. Click on 
  3. Click on this one  
  4. Choose a positive word, eg JOY, FUN, HOPE, HAPPY, YAY, PLAY…
  5. Follow the instructions to bring your word to life
  6. Can you make the animations suit the word?

LF2 Using different blocks

  1. Go to Scratch
  2. file – Load from your computer
  3. Google Drive – double click on your project from last week
  4. Can you make your letters do different things?
    1. Make a noise when you click on them 
    2. Spin around when your click on them 
    3. Grow and shrink when you click on them 
    4. Change colour when you click on them 
    5. Keep changing colour              
    6. Glide up and down when green flag clicked  
    7. Glide in from a random position when you click the green flag
    9. What other ideas have you got?  Can you find blocks that do it?

Y3456 T1 skills

Sep 302019
 

j2e5 skills

Year 3

  • Enter username and password
  • Select items (arrow tool – double click – blue squares)
  • Delete items (select, backspace)
  • Undo
  • Click and drag
  • Resize, rotate, reposition items
  • Change effects – colours, thickness, bold,…
  • Use tools
  • Duplicate items (drag )
  • Search for media within j2e ()
  • Save ()
  • Locate work

Year 4

  • Attention to detail
  • Choosing fonts
  • Layering items
  • Crop images
  • Drag select more than one item

Year 5

  • Use websites to generate content eg cooltext
  • Stretch images in j2e (shift-drag)
  • Attention to detail
  • Group items
  • Shape crop images

Year 6

  • Attention to detail
  • Independently use tools
  • Focus on audience, purpose
  • Actively solve problems

Learning skills

  • Is positive when exploring new tools
  • Has a “hands down and have a go” attitude.
  • Is sociable – ready to help, accepts help

Y3 Create a mix page in JIT5

Jul 012019
 
  1. Look at the Autumn Days words below – can we come up with some lines for a Summer Days song?
  2. In JIT5
    1. Create an Animate page and Save
    2. Create a Mix page – select animation and text below
    3. Load animation into mix page

Animation

  • Make a simple background
  • Characters
    • Draw a character (big) – create a stamp
    • OR use a picture from the list
  • Animate

Autumn Days

Autumn days when the grass is jewelled
And the silk inside a chestnut shell.
Jetplanes meeting in the air to be refuelled.
All these thing I love so well

So I mustn’t forget
No, I mustn’t forget.
To say a great big
Thank You
I mustn’t forget

Clouds that look like familiar faces
And the winters moon with frosted rings.
Smell of bacon as I fasten up my laces
And the song the milkman sings

Whipped-up spray that is rainbow-scattered
And a swallow curving in the sky
Shoes so comfy though they’re worn out and they’re battered
And the taste of apple pie.

Scent of gardens when the rain’s been falling
And a minnow darting down a stream
Picked-up engine that’s been stuttering and stalling
And a win for my home team.

Y3 I can Animate

Jun 242019
 
  1. On the iPads
  2. Multimedia folder
  3. iCanAnimate app
  4. Choose an small item to animate
  5. Take a picture
  6. Move the item a tiny bit
  7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 LOTS of times!!

Success

  • Keep the iPad still
  • Move a tiny bit each time
  • Make sure your hands are out of the way
  • Export to camera roll

Y3 LF: Bar chart in j2e5 (1)

Apr 232019
 
  1. Start a new j2e5 page
  2. Make a new table   with 1 column and 5 rows
    1. Henry VII 23 Years
    2. Henry VIII 38 Years
    3. Edward VI 6 Years
    4. Mary I 5Years
    5. Elizabeth I  45 Years
  3. Put the information in your table
  4.  Create a graph from your table by selecting it (click on top left box) and clicking the graph button 
  5. Add a picture of  each Tudor monarch – drag and drop them from this website:
    1. http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/tudors/kings.htm
  6. Add a title: The Tudors
  7. Add some facts, for example from these websites:
    1. https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/tudor-facts/
    2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/henry_viii/
    3. http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Tudors.html
  8. Make the page into an attractive poster – fill the page.
  9. ** Only when you have checked the success criteria yourself and with me –
    1. Go to https://cooltext.com/
    2. Choose a suitable style – royal, old-looking
    3. Type “The Tudors”
    4. Change settings – you can choose a better font here too
    5. Drag onto your j2e5 page instead of your title

Success criteria

  • Fill the page
  • Graph and chart together
  • Fact box
  • Big title
  • Even spacing
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