Y5 LF Create an interactive information website with j2e5

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?
  • https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/earth/continents/
  • https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
  • http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/
• 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