1. Name the Superheroes…

2. Super Hero Databases Lesson 1

3. Lesson 1 Aims… To know what a database is. To understand why databases are used. To be able to identify different types of databases. To be able to use keywords and terminology correctly.

4. Activity 1 - Databases Using the ‘What is a database’ presentation on the P:/ drive Using the ‘What is a database’ presentation on the P:/ drive – Answer the questions on the worksheet. P:/ICT/Year7/ Databases/Super Heros Located at P:/ICT/Year7/ Databases/Super Heros

5. Activity 2 – Creating Super Heroes Using the website www.sp-studio.de : Using the website www.sp-studio.de :www.sp-studio.de – Create 10 different Superheros Male and Female Male and Female Different appearances Different appearances – Hair, clothes, eyes, skin colour, accessories etc

6. Activity 2 – Creating a Super Hero Use www.sp- studio.de to create your 1 st Super Herowww.sp- studio.de Use the menu to select different items to make your Super Hero UNIQUE

7. Activity 2 – Creating a Super Hero Select suitable items: – Place – Hat – Hair – Eyes – Skin – Stuff (accessories) – Shirt – Hands – Legs – Mouth

8. Activity 3 – Saving a Super Hero Use the ‘Print Screen’ button on your keyboard to ‘copy’ your 1 st Super Hero. ‘Paste’ the Super Hero into ‘Adobe Fireworks CS4’. F12 Next to F12 Button

9. Activity 3 – Saving a Super Hero Use the ‘crop’ tool to select your Super Hero. Press the ‘enter’ button to create selection

10. Activity 3 – Saving a Super Hero Click on ‘Modify’ – canvas – image size. Click on ‘Modify’ – canvas – image size. Untick the ‘Constrain proportions’ box and change the sizes of the image to: Untick the ‘Constrain proportions’ box and change the sizes of the image to: – 4cm wide – 6cm tall

11. Activity 3 – Saving a Super Hero Click ‘Save As’ and save into your ‘Year 7’ folder‘ with a suitable name e.g. ‘Frozen Man’. Click ‘Save As’ and save into your ‘Year 7’ folder‘ with a suitable name e.g. ‘Frozen Man’. REMEMBER to save as a BMP image. REMEMBER to save as a BMP image.

12. Activity 4 – Making More Heros Repeat the same process to create more Super Heros: Repeat the same process to create more Super Heros: – Level 1-3 = 6+ Heros – Level 3–4 = 8+ Heros – Level 5+ = 10+ Heros

13. Plenary