The skills covered in this lesson are skills that are transferable to many different elements of digital work and subjects. The activities in the Pupil Activity Pack link with Poetry.
Where does it fit into the Computing Curriculum?
Document editing and creation would fit into the Key Stage 1 objective to "use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content" and the similar Key Stage 2 objective to "create content to accomplish goals."
What will teachers and pupils need?
Pupils will need access to Microsoft Word, Google Docs or Pages on iPad as well as the Activity Pack through their own login.
1. Pupils are asked to copy and paste the poem from the activity pack to their document.
2. Next, the videos demonstrate 3 different ways to replace a word including clicking at the end of the word and backspace, selecting a word and typing a new one plus using the find and replace tool. The task asks the pupils to replace some of the words in poem with better ones.
​3. This task asks the pupils change the appearance of the text based on the poem's meaning, such as changing the font colour of the colour words.
4. Finally, the last task asks the pupils to copy and paste the image from the activity pack to their document and then edit the size, position and borders.
Pupils should save their Word, Pages or Google Docs files with a suitable file name.