Completing an online book review blog

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Famous for more than Five Minutes - NEW LOOK Communicators

Objectives

History

  • Learn about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.

Computing

  • Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content.

Lesson Planning

Complete and tweak an online book blog. Create a ‘visual story’ for Caxton and Berners-Lee to include in your blog.

Teaching Outcomes
Create ‘visual stories’ about the significance of Caxton and Berners-Lee.
Finish designing and creating an online book review blog/website.

Children will:

  • Complete the creation of their book review blog.
  • Create and add to their blog a ‘visual story’ of Caxton and Berners-Lee, showing how they contributed to the development of ‘printed’ communication.

Provided Resources

  • Caxton and Berners-Lee: pictures, items and symbols
  • Sample visual story

You Will Need

  • Digital cameras and scanners

Weblinks

There are no weblinks needed for this session.