Design an App!

App Icon Examples

 

Subject: Digital Technologies

Year level: 5/6

Strand: Digital Technologies processes and production skills

Sub strand: Using Digital Systems
6.5 Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative designs.

  • 6.6 Design, modify and follow simple algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration (repetition).
  • 6.9 Manage the creation and communication of ideas and information including online collaborative projects, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols.

Link to the resource: http://5bappproject.weebly.com/

Cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, ICT Competence

Links to other learning areas: English

  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements(ACELY1700)
  • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)
  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements (ACELY1700)
  • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1704)

A classroom activity using this resource:
This resource can be implemented into the classroom in the form of a project, where students work towards creating an app over a series of lessons. Students will first plan their app, focusing on these features: title, app icon, description, cost; and designer’s name. Students will then go on to further plan their app and what it will be about. Once all aspects have been considered and students are clear on what their app is about; then they may present their ideas in the form of a PowerPoint or Keynote.

  • Visit the website – http://5bappproject.weebly.com/
  • Have a look through the activities that have been designed for students and implement them into the classroom.
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