Communication

Overview

Your students will develop a presentation for a VIP visit to your school, and a secret agent briefing for a top secret mission to America? They will develop basic and advanced communication techniques through independent development of a professional presentation suitable for a specific audience and purpose. Learners will engage in a range of exciting activities including choosing and embedding sound files, sorting slides, image manipulation and advanced presentation techniques.

Lesson by lesson key content

Lesson number	Indicative content	Homework
1	Understanding audience and purpose; analysing and improving a presentation.	None for this lesson.
2	Understanding pixelation; manipulating images; experimenting with saving images in different formats.	Sourcing images for a presentation.
3	Providing feedback on homework; introducing and understanding the purpose of the slide master; adding slide transitions and slide animations in a presentation.	Obtaining a satellite view of your school.
4	Planning and building a virtual tour presentation; getting feedback and making improvements.	Find or record an appropriate sound file.
5	How to sort slides; learning about copyright; inserting sound files into a presentation.	None for this lesson.
6	Review of a ‘poor presentation’; Start creating Mission America presentation.	Gather suitable media files for a presentation.
7	Continue with Mission America; give feedback to another student on their presentation; produce your own evaluation report.	None for this lesson.

Computing curriculum content

• Undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications, preferably across a range of devices, to achieve challenging goals, including collecting and analysing data and meeting the needs of known users;
• Create, re-use, revise and re-purpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability.

Literacy curriculum content

• Learning new vocabulary, relating it explicitly to known vocabulary and understanding it with the help of context and dictionaries;
• Making inferences and referring to evidence in the text;
• Knowing the purpose, audience for and context of the writing and drawing on this knowledge to support comprehension;
• Checking their understanding to make sure that what they have read makes sense;
• Knowing how language, including figurative language, vocabulary choice, grammar, text structure and organisational features, presents meaning;
• Using Standard English confidently in their own writing and speech.

Numeracy curriculum content

• Order positive and negative integers;
• Use scale factors.