What makes a great app?

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Computational Thinking and Creativity Apps

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Objectives

Computing

Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of ICT
Evaluate and apply IT, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems.

PSHE Education

Explore the importance of physical activity and diet for a healthy lifestyle.

Lesson Planning

Start your challenge by becoming an app reviewer. Learn about the basics of app design and come up with your own app development ideas at a creativity business meeting.

Teaching Outcomes:

To investigate algorithms, review apps, and use a wireframe to design an app and its algorithms.
To identify features of a healthy lifestyle.

Children will:

Review a series of apps.
Play ‘build an app’ game to learn about algorithms.
Design a healthy lifestyle app using a wireframe.
Attend a ‘creativity meeting’ and develop some ‘healthy lifestyle’ app ideas.

Planning

Provided Resources

Discovering apps, covering: Photo of Tim Berners-Lee; Definition of an app; What makes a successful app?; App-link game; Algorithms; Table for app review; Creativity meeting brief; Healthy lifestyle and wellbeing poster; Designing an app idea: key guidance & Appshed apps and wireframe explanation

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Tablets
Internet access

Weblinks

An App for learning about the foods you eat and how they help fuel your body for your favourite activities from itunes.apple.com
Android Wear App allows you to start tracking and keep an eye on your personal fitness from play.google.com
An App for healthy grocery shopping and make better food choices, (have food packets with bar codes for this app) from play.google.com
Free images and videos you can use anywhere from pixabay.com