Apr 202020
Activity 1 – Make a table
- Start a new j2e5 page
- Make a new table with 1 column and 7 rows
- Copy this information into your table
- (Continent) Million people
- Africa 1276
- Antarctica 0.002
- Asia 4561
- Europe 746
- North America 583
- Oceania 42
- South America 424
- 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
- Create a bar chart from your table by selecting it (click on top left box) and clicking the graph button
- Move the table and bar chart next to each other.
- Add the following title:
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A bar chart to show how many million people live in each continent.
Video instructions for Activity 2
Activity 3 – Make a poster
- Add a picture of the world’s continents
- I have shared a blank one that you could label
- Add a title: The continents of the world
- Add some facts, for example from these websites:
Video instructions for Activity 3
Activity 4 – Finish your poster
- Make the page into an attractive poster – fill the page, addnore pictures and information.
- Success criteria
- Fill the page
- Graph and chart together
- Fact box
- Big title
- 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.
- Go to https://cooltext.com/
- Choose a suitable style
- Type “Continents of the World”
- Change settings – you can choose a better font here too
- 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