I’ve heard a number of people ask on Twitter if anybody has any learning objectives for 2DIY to help justify its place in their curriculum, so I decided to have a go at writing some that could be used to accompany a unit of work on the software:
About this Unit
In this unit children will develop a greater understanding of how online activities are designed and produced. They will create their own educational games to support topics they are learning about in class and will be able to share their work with others through publishing it on a website/blog.
Key Vocabulary (to introduce/reinforce)
actionscript code, animation, embed, instructions, interactive, modify, play, score, sound effects, test, timer
Learning Objectives
- Key Idea: that online activities use a range of methods to encourage interaction and use multimedia elements to enhance the enjoyment of completing them
- Technique: to create an interactive activity which can be played to improve understanding of a topic
- Technique: to use multimedia elements (e.g. sound and/or animation) to enhance an activity
- Technique: to combine a series of educational activities for embedding into a website/blog
Expectations
At the end of this unit:
Most children will:
create a range of interactive activities about particular topics for others to complete;
use multimedia elements to enhance their work, but with some inconsistencies (e.g. sound effects not matching an activity's theme).
Some children will not have made so much progress and will:
create simple interactive activities about particular topics for others to complete.
Some children will have progressed further and will:
create a sequence of interactive activities about a particular topic for others to complete;
use multimedia elements effectively to enhance their work;
begin to adjust some of the key elements within an activity by altering parts of its actionscript code.
KS2 National Curriculum for England Links:
Developing Ideas and Making Things Happen
2. Pupils should be taught:
a)how to develop and refine ideas by bringing together, organising and reorganising text, tables, images and sound as appropriate [for example, desktop publishing, multimedia presentations]
Exchanging and sharing information
3. Pupils should be taught:
a) how to share and exchange information in a variety of forms, including e-mail [for example, displays, posters, animations, musical compositions]
b) to be sensitive to the needs of the audience and think carefully about the content and quality when communicating information [for example, work for presentation to other pupils, writing for parents, publishing on the internet].
Breadth of Study
5. During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through:
a) working with a range of information to consider its characteristics and purposes [for example, collecting factual data from the internet and a class survey to compare the findings]
