Quentin D’Souza on TeachingHacks.com says “Use the Line and Path measurement tools to find distances that are challenging to measure.” I have used this in maths with an extra bit. Find a regular shaped feature on a map – say a football pitch – and ask children to measure it using the line and path function. Full Article…
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WAW! Where are we today?
Start the day by choosing a city or area with some well known land marks, use Google Earth, project onto whiteboard and zoom down to street level (so that you can still see a few km of the city – depending on the landmarks) then ask the children to guess what city or area it Full Article…
My Google Earth Life
Get children to create a virtual autobiography. They make placemarks at any location of significance then edit the placemarks to add stories, photos, videos, or URLs This can be where they were born (maybe they can take a digital photo of their birth certificate) the house(s) they have lived in, playgroups or schools they attended, where Full Article…
Twitter role play
Take an historical context – we used the children who were evacuated from big cities in the UK at the be inning of World War 2 because last year was the International Year of the Evacuees. Tell them who evacuees were and why etc. Look at children’s names that were popular at that time. Kids Full Article…
Photosynth
Another idea from Cidalia Marques in Portugal who says…. “We use the Photosynth site to create a 3D image with photos pupils have taken. See an example of a classroom or a school” Use the site to share information about your school, neighbourhood, town etc with children in other countries. Ask pupils to identify the differences and similarities. Full Article…
Space and size
Check out this amazing presentation for demonstrating orders of magnitude or talking about the size of the universe! It was created by Cary and Michael Huang who have generously agreed that Taccle teachers can use it AND translate it into their own language. If anyone is interested in doing this let me know and I’ll Full Article…
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