Formatting - HA

• Computing
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Word Process

Year 7 - Digital Literacy 

Bell Activity

What is an informative leaflet?

KO: To be-able to recreate an information leaflet

All 

To be-able to use Word Processing to re-create an information leaflet 

Most

To be-able to use Word Processing to re-create an information leaflet. And understand why we might need to do this.

Some

To be-able to use Word Processing to create a high-quality information leaflet.

Starter

What might a 'High Quality' informative leaflet look like?

Work Template

Open this file

Save the file in your Year 7 Digital Literacy Folder.

What it looks like now...

Mansfield Colliery  

“Crownie”  

The colliery was developed by the Bolsover Colliery Company, the first of several important colliery developments by the influential company in the North Nottinghamshire coalfield. Twin shafts were sunk to a depth of 545 yards in the Top Hard seam between 1904 and 1905. Nearby the colliery village of Forest Town was developed. In its early days it was one of the most productive collieries in Britain.  

Some Key Facts:  

Outputting almost 5000 tonnes daily by 1909  

Closed 31st March 1988  

Final output in last year was 775,000 tonnes with a workforce of 1000 men  

Closure, filling and capping in 1989  

Source © - https://miningheritage.co.uk 

What it should look like

Did you manage it?

Did you manage to re-create that information leaflet to the same as the one I created?

If not, why not?

Let's learn some new skills...

Word Processing Basic's

Font style and size changing

• · Italics, bold
• · Highlighting – recolouring text
• · Alignment (left, centre and right)
• · Bullet list and styles
• · Symbol insertion (for copyright)
• · Adding/Removing hyperlinks where required
• · Ruler tool to control text placement

New Template

Open this file

Save the file in your Year 7 Digital Literacy Folder.

Plenary

What can we do to our Text, to make it look better?

What can we do to our Images, to make them look better?