Here’s a fabulous resource to keep KS3/4 kids busy for several hours and show them how to make “proper” newspaper front pages using DTP and graphics using good old Publisher 2019 (which your students can get for free if you have a suitable school Microsoft licence - most do) and photopea.com (which is free and online). Loads of skills, simple to follow, easily accessible, fun for your students and you get artwork for your classroom walls. It’s what we in the trade call a win/win/win/win/win

So here is a wonderful lesson that kids genuinely really enjoy doing. I hate it when people say kids love doing something when they don’t really but this is different, this lesson genuinely gets them all really motivated because it’s easy to do and the outcomes can be very funny indeed. You simply take 2 video files of speeches made by Donald Trump, work out what you want him to say by extracting the words from the speeches, then stitch them altogether. I use Wevideo to do this because then kids don’t have an excuse that they don’t have the software at home as it’s just in the browser. You can also save any work from class directly on the Wevideo website and they can carry on at home. The editing will keep kids busy for a couple of lessons and you can differentiate by getting your more able students to source other Donald Trump speeches and text from this site https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches and as the video points out it’s easy enough to add subtitles and credits too.

Here’s a nice simple exercise to keep kids busy for an hour or so. Follow the video then go and “fix” the 3 images. Top skills using Photopea, really useful for KS3 or iMedia students