Black Death

Designing a Leaflet

Lesson 1

Starter

• When you teacher says “GO!” it is your job to as quickly as you can navigate to the Studywiz resources for this part of the immersion day.

• The first ten people to find and open the ICT Designing a Leaflet resource will receive commendations.

• First you need to listen carefully to your teacher, who will explain where the resource is to be found.

• Do not start until the music on the movie starts!

1. Click on the resources tab on your home page.

2. Select the my groups tab

3. Select the Year 7 folder the Environment sub folder

4. Select the History, ERS,

Geography and ICT Immersion Day

Folder

5. Open the ICT Designing a Leaflet

Resource

Aims

• To create a leaflet about the symptoms of the Black Death using text, images and colours

• To evaluate the suitability of your leaflet in terms of audience and purpose

• To explain how you created your leaflet, the choices you made and

Task 1

• You will create a poster about the symptoms of the Black Death to scare people so that they did not catch it.

• You must use Microsoft Publisher to create your leaflet.

• You should use your own knowledge, information and pictures from the internet to devise your leaflet.

Advice and Help

• You are aiming to frighten people – so pick the right font, text colour and to do this. You will need to use lots of reds and blacks – remember this is the black death, not the nice pretty pink and purple thing death.

• The best bet to get information is to use a search engine such as Google to get pictures. Ask for help if you are not sure how to transfer a picture onto a document.

• You have the whole of this lesson to do this task.

Advice and Help

• Use the internet and the Black Death Symptoms Worksheet as sources of information for your leaflet.

• Video tutorials to help you use publish are available at the website below:

http://www.teach-ict.com/software/publisher/publisher.htm

Black Death

Designing a Leaflet

Task 2

Task 2

• You should of now completed your leaflet make sure you have saved it.

• A local doctors surgery has asked you to change your leaflet so they can use it to give information to their patients.

• Doctors do not want people to be frightened but they want to let them know about the symptoms of the Black Death.

• Change your original leaflet to meet this new purpose.

Submitting Work

• You will now need to submit your leaflet or leaflets onto Studywiz by uploading them to the assignment file for your correct group.

To submit your work you must click on the assignment file that will say your class name then “Submit ICT Work” e.g. “7T1 Submit ICT Work”

An assignment file has an A+ on it. The class in this case is 7T1.

Then you will need to select Submit Assignment.

Add a description of your work in the text box. This is important as your teacher will know what the work is.

Click upload and browse to your work and click upload. Once it has uploaded make sure you save your work.

Homework

• In order to achieve a Level 4 or higher in ICT you must evaluate your leaflet.

• On studywiz open the Black Death Evaluation Worksheet and answer the questions.

• Please write this in your planner.

Extended Plenary

• You can now upload your original leaflet to a Studywiz gallery. This will allow you to peer assess your classmates work.

Extended Plenary

• When assessing each others work it is important to give information that will help your classmates get better.

• Follow these simple steps:– What did you think of the leaflet?

• Excellent, Good or Satisfactory

– Why do you like about the leaflet?• Use of text, images and colour• Audience and Purpose

– How could the leaflet be improved?• Use of text, images and colour• Audience and Purpose