Learning objective

  • To explain how the data for digital images can be compressed.

Success criteria

  • I recall that images are made of pixels.
  • I

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National curriculum

Computing

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Understand

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Speak like an expert and allow time for paired discussion.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Could be provided with the mosaic with the fewest pieces for the Attention grabber activity; could use the Knowledge organiser to help them answer the questions throughout the lesson; could work with a partner to save three different versions of an image.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Should use Excel to help them calculate exactly how many bits there are in each version of the image; could be challenged to find a way to download a bitmap directly from the internet using the ‘advanced Search’ dropdown within Google and select File Type = BMP (the children will probably not find a BMP they like but explain that they are rare to download because of their massive file size and JPEG is the standard).

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: saving JPEG as a bitmap; recognising

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Vocabulary definitions

  • compression

    Taking single or multiple files and reducing their file size to take up less digital storage space.

  • data

    Information used for a specific purpose or investigation.

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Richard Williams

Computing specialist

Image Specialists 6
Richard is a Year 6 Teacher at St. Pancras Primary School. Richard’s passion for teaching was recognised when he received Suffolk’s ‘Raising The Bar’ award for Innovation 2016. With his class he made the world’s first guided VR:360 school tour and also a…
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