Here are a series of QR codes to print out and stick into the story book of Eric Carle’s Very Hungry Caterpillar. Scan each one as you read the page to see videos of caterpillars munching leaves, gigantic vegetables and beautiful butterflies. Download the pdf
Brushbots
Woohoo! Have spent the last few days being miserable with flu so to cheer myself up have been making toothbrush robots and racing them with my grandchildren. Bought the components ages ago but it took till today to actually get them out of the box… You will need: Some old toothbrushes (personally I have found Full Article…
How old is a tree?
Not really e-learning but thought I’d share this anyway – a great idea for really understanding how old trees are as well as getting some sense of history. You could hype it up a bit by getting the birds in the tree tweeting to each other about what they could see at any point in Full Article…
STEMbites
We really like a new series of on-line STEM resources called STEMbites. Andrew Vanden Heuvel has created them by wearing Google glasses to ‘see’ the world in terms of the maths and science in his environment. They are best suited to 11 – 14 year olds but simple enough for primary children as long as Full Article…
Planet Qej
I think Chris Leach invented this but I’ve used it and it’s fabulous! Get the children to set up twitter accounts using the names of robots from Planet Qej. The robots are landed by space capsule somewhere on Planet Earth with a mission to collect data about this unknown planet. Teacher is mission control back Full Article…