1. Due Friday 8th June 2012 T2W7
Current What is happening around us?
Events App Kid
Watch this short video titled App Kid and answer the following questions
(The short video is also on the blog. Let me know if you can’t view it at
home and I will let you watch it during the week at school).
Focus Questions
1. What is an app and on which devices would you find them?
2. What sorts of things do apps let people do?
3. Which photo sharing app sold recently for a billion dollars?
4. Who created the popular game Angry Birds?
5. Describe the app that Zeryab has created.
6. What makes his app different to other taxi apps?
7. Who is helping Zeryab develop his app?
8. How has your thinking changed since watching the App kid story?
9. What are your three favourite apps? Why?
Cantankerous
Find the definition. Write a sentence for each meaning, and use it 3
times during the week. How many synonyms can you find?
Mathematics Multiplication
1. Complete the set activities on Study Ladder. Some of you may
need to see me for your password.
2. Complete the Mangahigh challenges.
3.Maths activities will be set for your text book on Monday.
2. Quote of the “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”
Week
1.Who said it?
2. Who was this person?
3.What do you think this person meant?
App Kid
Design an app
Write a short description of your idea for an app and draw a sketch of the
different elements of your app (you can do this in a drawing app or on paper.
Support your app idea by answering the following questions:
What does your app have to offer that the others don’t?
What problem does your app solve?
Who is the target audience?
We will share our app ideas with the class!
Science Workshop
Remember it’s this Tuesday. Even if the cross country
is cancelled.
