Y5 How can I create an effective book cover?

Sep 112023
 

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Book covers

    1. Go to “my files”, “shared files”, your class folder
    2. Open Stormbreaker book cover
    3. Use the tools in j2e to copy one of them as accurately as possible.

Decomposition

We will start with the cover background colour and build it up in layers.  Break the problem down – decomposition

1 Cover shape, blocks and colour

  • Trace the shape of the whole book cover with the rectangle tool
  • Do the same for the red bar at the bottom
  • Select each shape and change the colour by using “fill”

2 Text

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Y5 LF Make an radio programme (3 weeks)

Jun 032023
 

LF1 What makes an effective radio programme?

Listen to some of these radio programmes:

  1. What elements make them effective? (Collect ideas then Diamond 9)
  2. Is there anything you would improve?
  3. PMI for radio programmes

LF2 Planning 10 Qs and As

  • Open a new j2e5 page
  • With a partner, write 10 questions and answers about:
    • Anglo Saxons
    • South America / Amazon Rainforest
    • Earth and Space
    • Greeks
  • You could use
  • Read it throough several times to practise

LF2a Planning a mini documentary

  • Draw a bubble map/mind map of ideas for your programme
  • Use your Greek topic work to add detail to different ideas
  • Take a section each (or with a pair) to work on
  • (If you are working with a pair – don’t “chorus talk”)
  • Record as soon as you have enough for a short section

LF3 Finding music

pixabay music

Attribution not required, but appreciated.  It is polite and respectfut to say where you got your music from to credit the composer/performer.

The music is “Forest Lullaby” by Lesfm from pixabay.com/music

LF4 Recording

  • Record short sections (we haven’t got time for lots of takes of longer sections)
  • iPad + iMovie: Just use the video (with the camera covered up) to record parts of your programme.
  • Chromebook + Audio Studio: Open a new tab, click on then
  • Outro example
    • 10 questions and answers about the ancient Greeks was written and presented by [Names]
    • It is a 2019 production as part of Computing at St Mark’s C of E Junior School, Salisbury
    • The music is [name of music] by Kevin Macleod incompetech.com   License: CC BY creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

LF5 Editing

  • 3-5 seconds of music before speaking starts
  • Dip music volume for speaking
  • Make sure volume levels are good
  • Use split then delete buttons to remove sections or mistakes
  • Duplicate music if it is not long enough
  • Clip and fade out any music at the end <10 seconds

LF6 Saving

LF6a Back up photos and videos on iPad

  1. Open the Google Drive app
  2. Login
  3.  Click the + at the bottom right – Upload – Photos and Videos
  4. Select your videos
  5. LOGOUT – click three lines (top left) – click username – Manage accounts – MANAGE – REMOVE all accounts

LF6b Saving your finished iMovie

  1. Click “Done”
  2. Share button (square with up arrow)
  3. Save video – medium
  4. Then upload to Google Drive

LF6c Saving your finished Audio Studio

  • Click then click the File audio link at the bottom
  • In j2e, click then “Choose files” and find your file
  • Go to “my files” , click on the and rename your file

Finished?  

Y5 Spreadsheets 3 – Party budget

May 152023
 
  1. Finish party budget
  2. Multiplication square
  3. Conditional formatting pixel art

The task

  • Imagine you are organising a class party.
  • You need to buy the food but also cups, plates and serviettes
  • You have a budget of £60
  • Design a spreadsheet which will help you work out the costs and experiment to see what you could buy

Steps to success

  1. Set up your spreadsheet
    • Columns: Item, link, pack size, number, cost, total cost,
    • Rows: headings, a row for each item, Grand total, Money left to spend
    • Formulae: total cost and Grand total, money left
    • ** Add more columns/worksheets to compare different supermarkets
  2. Search for items and enter item, links, pack size and costs in your spreadsheet
  3. Experiment by putting different values in the number cells to see what you can afford
  4. Decide on your shopping list and explain your choices.

How did using a spreadsheet make this easier?

Y5 Spreadsheets – investigations

May 022023
 

1 Going up the wall

  1. Open the Going up the wall spreadsheet
  2. Follow the instructions under the wall and write your answers in the boxes

2 Giant multiplication grid

  1. Start a new Google Sheets
  2. In A1 put an X
  3. In A2 to A11 put the numbers 1 to 10
  4. In B1 to K1 put the numbers 1 to 10
  5. You could format your spreadsheet – change text size, change column widths, colour column A and row 1, add grid lines
  6. In B2 put this formula: =A2*B1 (this does 1 X 1 and shows the answer 1)
  7. Copy the formula by selecting it and dragging the corner down
  8. This should give the 1 times table. Is it right?
  9. Can you work out what has gone wrong with the formulae?
  10. Change the formula in B2 to: =$A2*B$1
  11. The $ symbol means that when we copy it doesn;t change the A or the 1
  12. Now copy again to get the 1 times table
  13. Now drag across to get the other times tables
  14. Can you extend your mutliplication grid to be 25 x 25? Even bigger?

Giant multipication grid video

Conditional formatting

  1. Select the range of answers
  2. Conditional formatting:
    • custon formula is
    • =iseven(B2)
    • choose a cell colour
  3. This shoud highlight even numbers

3 1-100 grid

  1. Set up a 1-100 grid
    • Put 1 in the top corner cell A1
    • Put =a1+1 next to it in cell B1
    • Drag this cell to the right up to 10 (cell J1)
    • Put =a1+10 underneath in cell A2
    • Drag this to the right up to J2
    • Then drag this row down
  2. Use conditional formatting to highlight different multiples
    • custon formula is
    • =mod(b2,2)=0 should hightlight multiples of 2
    • choose a cell colour
  3. Screenshot the patterns and paste onto a j2e5 page

Y5 Spreadsheets: Pixel art 2 – conditional formatting

Apr 262023
 
  1. Go to Google Drive
  2. Open the spreadsheet from last week
  3. Scroll down to a clear area
  4. Highlight a whole rectangle for your picture
    • Put a border around it
  5. Whith the area still selected:
    • Click on “Format” – “Conditional formatting”
    • Select the range
    • “Text contains”
    • Type in “r” (for red)
    • Change the fill colour to red
  6. Repeat for “b” (for blue)
  7. Make a Union Jack flag by typing “r” and “b” in the cells

Y5 LF: Find, copy and paste information

Jan 252023
 

Success criteria

  • All information and pictures onto j2e5 page
  • Info and pictures on correct pages
  • Range of information in sections
  • References = list of websites used

Skills

  • Find useful websites
  • Use keywords to find specific information
  • Right-hand click to “copy image” OR drag image to j2e5 tab
  • Hightlight text then Right-hand click to “copy”
  • “Ctrl v” to paste into j2e5
  • Turn pages in j2e5

Y5T1 Stormbreaker book cover

Sep 072022
 

New year – expectations

Typing

j2launch

  • Shared files – Stormbreaker book cover
  • Copy
    • the book shape
    • Red bar at the bottom
    • Text
    • Match colours

Y5 LF Create an interactive information website with j2e5

Jun 082022
 

LF3 Choose the style of your website

  • Carefully think about how you want your website to look – each page should have a consistent style
  • Choose
    • 1 or 2 fonts
    • A few colours that go well together
    • A layout that stays roughly the same on each page
    • Standard link buttons
  • ** How can you make your website accessible – easy for all people to read, eg visually impaired, dyslexic…? https://www.searchenginejournal.com/make-website-more-accessible/347450/

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

LF2 Link pages and to websites

  1. Create a header that will be on each page
  2. Create all of the pages you need by cloning your header page
  3. Rename your pages by clicking the pages icon
  4. Right click each page or click the little arrow and rename each page
  5. Link pages
    1. Create a button – could be a word, image or combination
    2. Select – link
    3. Type “# page name” in the link and then “ok”

How many links did you make today?

LF1 Explore tools and elements

  • What makes a good information website?
  • What interactive elements could we use in j2e5?
  • How can you inspire your audience to do something asa result of viewing your website?
  • Topics
    • People that changed the world
      • charity – Mother Theresa, Malala, Desmond Tutu, World Food Program
      • environment – Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough, Steve Backshaw
      • inventors/scientists – early cars, planes, medicine,
    • Nature
      • Endangered animals, animals
      • Habitats under threat – Amazon Rainforest, Antarctica, Oceans

LF2 Create a site map

  • Start a new j2e5 page
  • Put your main title on the page, eg Siberian Tiger
  • start a new page and title it : Site map
  • Click the pages icon and rename these pages: Home and Site map
  • Make your site map page a mindmap of pages that you will have on your website
  • Save your j2e5 page as eg Siberian Tiger website. (Make sure you use the word website)

Future lessons/ideas

  • Share with QR code flyer
  • Embed content eg Scratch games, JIT5 animation
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