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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