Discover Canva – Unleash your Designer Skills: 10 Lesson Plans (Year 3 to Year 6)

Discover Canva – Unleash your Designer Skills: 10 Lesson Plans (Year 3 to Year 6)

Hey Awesome Designers! Get ready to unlock your creativity and become design superstars!
Have you ever wanted to make your own amazing posters, cool videos, or super fun animations? Well, guess what? You totally can! And we're going to learn how using a super cool tool called Canva!
Imagine having a magic box full of colours, pictures, words, and even moving parts that you can use to create anything you can dream up! That's kind of what Canva is like. It's like a digital playground where you can become a real designer!
Over the next few lessons, we're going to explore Canva together step-by-step. You’ll learn how to:
• Make your own awesome name tags!
• Become a font expert and make words jump off the page!
• Use amazing pictures and cool shapes in your designs!
• Splash your creations with incredible colours!
• Even make things move with animation and create your own mini-movies!
• Design posters that will WOW everyone!
• And even put together your own super slideshow presentations!
Canva is super fun and easy to use, and you don't need to be an artist already to be amazing at it. It’s all about exploring, experimenting, and letting your creativity shine! Get ready to become Canva creators and show the world your amazing ideas! Let's dive in and start designing!

Covering:
Lesson 1: Canva Kickstart - Exploring the Design Playground
Lesson 2: Text Titans - Font Fun and Message Magic
Lesson 3: Image Power - Pictures Speak Louder than Words
Lesson 4: Shape Shifters - Creative Designs with Shapes and Icons
Lesson 5: Colour Creators - Making Designs Pop with Colour
Lesson 6: Animation Station - Bringing Designs to Life (Intro)
Lesson 7: Video Ventures - Creating Short Video Stories
Lesson 8: Presentation Powerhouse - Storytelling with Slides
Lesson 9: Poster Pro - Designing Eye-Catching Posters
Lesson 10: Canva Challenge - Design Your Own Project

Each Lesson Plan offers: Cross Curriculum Opportunities, Materials needed, Explicit Teaching content, Hands-On Learning Task(s), Outdoor Learning Option (if applicable), Differentiation Strategies, Extension Tasks plus (Early) Career Education information.

(140 pages)