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Welcome Upper Key Stage 2 teachers!
Here are my recommendations for apps, websites, software and hardware for teaching Upper Key Stage 2 computing skills and objectives.
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Online Safety
- Children can demonstrate 'web-savvy' awareness, from a range of given scenarios, including conduct, contact and content 'risks' and issues.
- Children can discuss a range of privacy issues and know a range of ways to report concerns or inappropriate behaviour.
- Children can communicate and collaborate online, demonstrating respectful and safe behaviours.
- Children should learn about PEGI Ratings, consent and the dangers of viral challenges, phishing, scams and sexting.
Online Risks & Dangers
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Google Interland
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Kahoot!
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Word Wall
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Slido
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Coding
- Children can test, debug and edit a program that accomplishes a given goal, e.g. a simple computer game, model or simulation, to solve a problem.
- Children can create & develop programs, by planning, debugging and applying programming skills ofrepetition (loops), selection (IF/ELSE) and variables, to accomplish specific goals.
- Children can use logical reasoning to deconstruct programs, evaluate their effectiveness and make them more challenging or efficient.
- Children can use different types of input options and output options such as through sensing and control 'kits' and/or software to solve a problem.
- Children are developing and using a wider computing vocabulary in context of task.
Barefoot
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Scratch 3.0
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J2Code Logo
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Hopscotch
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Swift Playgrounds
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Hour of Code
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Rapid Router
Levels 29 - 43
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Busy Things Coding Adventure
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EduBlocks
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Ohbot
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Micro-bit
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Digital Creativity
Animation
- Children can plan a multi-scene animation including characters, scenes, camera angles and special effects.
- Children can use stop motion animation software with an external camera to shoot animation frames.
- Children can adjust the number of photographs taken and the playback rate to improve the quality of the animation.
- Children can publish their animation and use a movie editing package to edit/refine and add titles.
- Children can publish their animation and use a movie editing package to edit/refine and add titles.
Digital Design
- Children can use software effectively to create, design and manipulate for purposeful outcomes.
- Children can combine resources from different sources into a digital presentation, showing clear sense of intended purpose and 'audience'.
Photo Editing
- Children can acquire, store and combine images from cameras or the internet for a purpose.
- Children can use the print screen/snipping tool function to capture an image.
- Children can select certain areas of an image and resize, rotate and invert the image.
- Children can edit pictures using a range of tools in a graphics program.
Sound Editing
- Children can collect audio from a variety of resources including own recordings and internet clips.
- Children can create a multi-track recording using effects.
- Children can edit and refine their work to improve outcomes.
Video Editing
- Children can storyboard and capture videos for a purpose.
- Children can plan for the use of special effects and transitions.
- Children can trim, arrange and edit audio levels to improve quality of their outcome.
- Children can export their video.
Virtual Simulations
- Children can use to create a 3D representation of an existing building.
- Children can use the tools available to design their own fit for purpose building.
- Children can change the style, colour and texture of the walls.
- Children can change the viewpoint angle whilst designing the building to gain insight to its look from a variety of angles.
Keynote: Digital Animation
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iMotion: Stop-Motion Animation
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J2e5: Digital Paper
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J2e J2Webby: Blogging
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Pages: Posters & E-Books
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Storyboard That: Digital Comic Strip
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AppMaker: App creator
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Google Sites: Website Creator
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Photos: Photo Editing
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Pic Collage: Photo Editing
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Snapseed: Photo Editing
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Pixomatic: Photo Editing
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Voice Memos: Voice Recorder
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Garageband: Music Creator
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Audacity: Music Editing
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BBC Sound Effects
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Anchor: Podcasting
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iMovie: Video Editing & Green Screen
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Clips: Video Editing
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DoInk: Green Screen
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BigVu: Vlogging & Autocue
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PicPostPlay: Video Collage
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Reverse Movie FX
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Action Movie FX: Special Effects
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Sketch Up: Virtual Environment Creator
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Co-Spaces: Virtual Environment Creator
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Key Plan 3D: Virtual Interior Design Creator
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Google Earth: Virtual Map
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Google Arts & Culture
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WWF Free Rivers: AR River Simulation
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BBC Civilisations: AR Historical Artefacts
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Insight Heart: AR Circulatory System
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AR Moon: Rocket Launch & Moon Exploration
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Dinosaurs Everywhere: AR Dinosaurs
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Trench Experience VR: Trench Simulation
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AR Makr: AR Creator
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Core Skills
Typing and Mouse skills
- Can use shift key to insert characters
- Can use some software to create / assemble digital content for clear purpose.
- Can make straight-forward edits of their digital work using simple editing tools, to both correct and improve it.
- Children can combine graphics and text
- Children can insert, format and manipulate a table
- Children can use spelling and grammar check
- Children can use the find and replace tools
- Children can insert headers, footers and page numbers
- Children can change the layout of a word document
- Children can insert bullet/number points.
Presentation skills
- Children can add and rearrange slides
- Children can change a theme/layout
- Children can add and format a text box
- Children can add Background colours
- Children can insert pictures, sound file, video, hyperlinks and slide transitions for effect.
- Children can add animations and change animation order and timings for effect.
Data skills
- Children can enter labels and numbers into a spreadsheet
- Children can insert and format a table
- Children can understand the terms field, record, file, sort, classify and order
- Children can use a spreadsheet to make various types of charts and graphs.
- Children can use a database to sort and classify information and present their findings
- Children can (collect), analyse, evaluate and draw conclusions from data, such as through survey, database or spreadsheet, etc.
- Children can create data collection forms and enter data accurately from these.
- Children can know how to check for and spot inaccurate data.
- Children can enter formulae into a spreadsheet and know which formulas to use when I want to change my spreadsheet model.
- Children can sort and filter information.
- Children can use SUM to calculate the total set of numbers in range of cells
- Children can change data in a spreadsheet to answer ‘what if…?’ questions and check predictions.
- Children can understand that changing the numerical data effects a calculation.
Internet & Computer Systems
- Children can find specific and valid information using sensible key words / search terms, from (selected) online web content, as fits the task.
- Children can use advance search functions in Google (quotations).
- Children can understand websites such as Wikipedia are made by users (link to Online Safety).
- Children can use strategies to check the reliability of information (cross check with another source such as books)
- Children can use their knowledge of domain names to aid their judgement of the validity of websites.
- Children can log into an e-mail account
- Children can send, receive and reply to an e-mail
- Children can use an address book to store and select e-mail addresses
- Children can send an attachment via e-mail.
- Children can download and save files from an email.
- Children can e-mail more than one person and reply to all.
Microsoft Word: Word Processing
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Apple Pages: Word Processing
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Google Docs: Word Processing
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J2e5: Digital Paper
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Microsoft PowerPoint: Presentation
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Apple Keynote: Presentation
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Google Slides: Presentation
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J2e J2Data: Charts & Databases
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Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheets
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Apple Numbers: Spreadsheets
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Google Sheets: Spreadsheets
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Welcome To The Web: Using the Internet
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