Free lesson: Design Tricks (Grade 12 English)
Try a complete lesson free: students learn the persuasive design techniques that keep people scrolling, analyse an invented app's feed and go on a design-trick scavenger hunt.
This is a complete lesson from ENG4U Unit 6, The Machine Stops, free to download and use. It's exactly what you get in the paid units, so you can see the quality before you buy.
Students learn the conventions of app design (infinite scroll, autoplay, variable rewards, streaks, notifications, defaults and friction), analyse the feed of Glimmer, an app invented for the lesson, hunt for the techniques in real apps or screenshots, and decide which ones serve users and which steer them.
What you get
- A teacher lesson plan with curriculum expectations, learning goals, success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation and an answer guide
- A 15-slide deck with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend
- Student handouts: the Scavenger Hunt and Serve or Steer? organizer
- Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
Like it? The full Machine Stops unit has 12 lessons, and the complete ENG4U course covers the whole semester.
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