Technologies: Digital Technologies

Year 2

Term 2

2015

Duration: 3x 30 minute lessons

Curriculum links:
Strand: Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Content Description: Explore needs or opportunities for designing, and the technologies
needed to realise designed solutions (ACTDEP005)
Elaboration: identifying, gathering and playing with materials, components, tools and
equipment to generate personal design ideas, for example designing a greeting card for a
friend
General Capabilities:
LiteracyComprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing

Navigate, read and view learning area texts

Interpret and analyse learning area texts

Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating

Compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts

Word Knowledge

Understand learning area vocabulary

Visual Knowledge
Understand how visual elements create meaning

Personal and social capabilitySelf-management

Express emotions appropriately

Information and communication technology- Creating with ICT

Generate solutions to challenges and learning area tasks

Critical and creative thinkingInquiring identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas

Identify and clarify information and ideas

Organise and process information

Generating ideas, possibilities and actions

Imagine possibilities and connect ideas
Lesson objective: Students will:
Create a draft greeting card using concrete materials for Mothers Day
Create an online greeting card
Compare the advantages and disadvantages of using digital technologies and
concrete materials to create greeting cards.
Prior experiences:

Teacher has uploaded students photos to the shared drive (My pictures-Year2B-Name).
Resources
Digital- Smilebox (www.smilebox.com) shortcut saved onto desktop, Tutorial How to create
an online greeting card, Sheet How to add a picture, Worksheet Compare.
Have available- A4 plain paper, concrete materials (coloured paper, cellophane, markers,
crayons, pom poms, paddle pop sticks, feathers, stickers, glue, scissors), computer
laboratory.
Differentiation:
BM students:
SEP students
T: Descriptive encouraging, cueing with
J: Give explicit instructions at close
parallel acknowledgment, monitor student
proximity, monitor student performance,
performance.
provide assistance and encourage ideas to
D: Descriptive encouraging, cueing with
support student performance, TA support if parallel acknowledgment, monitor student
available to encourage student
performance, peer support.
engagement.
M: positive feedback for student
Extension work:
performance. Provide extension work if
-Phase 1: Encourage students to use emotive
completed ahead of time.
language and write a more detailed message.
K: Provide explicit instructions, provide
Phase 2- Students can choose a different
extension work if completed ahead of time, template and create a greeting card for a
positive feedback for student performance. different family member/friend.
B: Monitor student performance,
Phase 3- Encourage students to use
descriptive encouraging, close proximity,
descriptive language when thinking of their
provide assistance and encourage ideas to
ideas.
support student performance, peer
support.
Lesson sequence
Phase 1: Creating a greeting card using concrete materials
Time allocation: 30 minutes
Organisation: Classroom, at student desks
1. Reinforce behaviour management.
2. Discuss lesson objective with class.
3. Organise students into groups of 4 and have pre-organised
concrete materials and A4 plain paper placed in the middle for
each group.
4. Demonstrate to whole class the expectations of a Mothers Day
card (Fold paper in half, font cover needs to have a title Happy
Mothers Day! and a picture, middle page needs to have a
message and personalised decorating).
5. Teacher to discuss possible messages and write examples on the
whiteboard.
6. Allow students to commence creating their greeting card using
concrete materials.
7. Teacher to monitor students performance.
8. Remind students to have their name written on their card (eg.
Love Student A).

Resources
-A4 plain paper -Concrete
materials
(coloured paper,
cellophane,
markers,
crayons, pom
poms, paddle
pop sticks,
feathers,
stickers, glue,
scissors)

9. Teacher to collect completed greeting cards.

Phase 2: Creating a greeting card using digital technologies
Time allocation: 30 minutes
Organisation: Computer laboratory
1. Reinforce behaviour management.
2. Discuss lesson objective with class.
3. Teacher to play tutorial How to create an online greeting card
to students. Discuss tutorial and allow students to ask any
questions to establish clear understandings and expectations.
4. Teacher to hand out greeting cards from previous lessons to
students.
5. Students are to click on the shortcut on desktop Smilebox.
6. Students to click on the template they would like to manipulate.
7. Students to type their message copied from their greeting card
into their template.
8. Students to insert a picture following guidelines (Sheet- How to
add a picture).
9. Students to print completed greeting card.
10. Teacher to collect completed greeting cards.
Phase 3: Compare the advantages and disadvantages
Time allocation: 30 minutes
Organisation: Classroom, at student desks
1. Reinforce behaviour management.
2. Discuss lesson objective with class.
3. Students will compare the advantages and disadvantages of using
digital technologies and concrete materials to create greeting
cards.
4. Teacher to have greeting cards from previous lessons displayed in
the classroom.
5. Students are to be organised into groups of 4.
6. Teacher to introduce worksheet to whole class- Compare, and
discuss that students will be working as a group to identify the
advantages and disadvantages of creating an online greeting
card, and the advantages and disadvantages of creating a
greeting card using concrete materials.
7. Teacher to suggest ideas and write an example on the white
board to prompt thinking.
8. Teacher to establish voice levels- soft talking in groups.
9. Teacher to hand out worksheet Compare and allow students
time to think of ideas.
10. Teacher to ask students to raise their hands to share their ideas.
Teacher to discuss ideas and transfer ideas to an A1 piece of
paper to display in the classroom.

-Greeting cards
from previous
lesson
-Stationery
-Sheet- How to
add a picture
-A4 paper (for
printing)
-Interactive
whiteboard
-Laptop- link
How to create
an online
greeting card

-WorksheetCompare
-Stationery

Teacher Reflection:
Phase 1:

Phase 2:

Phase 3: