Age: 5-7yrs Overview This is a simple way of creating a basic e-book. The process allows for the book to be published as a written book with pictures using Calameo software or as an illustrated audio book using Slideshare. Description As a class, create a basic story with a beginning, middle and ending. You can Full Article…
e-Encyclopaedia
8+yrs Ease *** Overview: This is a twist on the traditional subject project; it is suitable for creating projects on almost any subject e.g. animals, history or Geography or any specific area within these broader subjects e.g. horses, The Romans or India. In this example, learners were investigating beetles. Description: The learners or the teacher Full Article…
Children of One World
9+yrs Ease *** Overview: This project facilitates learning about the lives in other countries and is especially effective for comparing and contrasting schools in very different countries or localities. To see an example : http://www.grundschule-falkenstrasse.de/projekte/kinder/projektperu2.pdf Description: Firstly, ask learners what they would like to know about a child’s life in another country e.g. “How do Full Article…
Awesome Advert
10+yrs Ease *** Overview: This websites motto is “Making awesome easier”! Learners create a 30 second advert on any topic they like. Here, we’ve outlined an activity where learners make a promo video of their school. We wanted to call this lesson Pimp My School… but we weren’t allowed. Description: Begin by showing learners videos created Full Article…
Cartoon science
Nic Daniels using cartoons to make science fun…. Children love making cartoons and on the whole hate writing up science experiments so recording science experiments as a comic strip can be the way forward. We used Comic Life to create the ones above. It comes bundled with the Mac but entry level is free for Windows and that Full Article…
Wii bowling number chains
Use Wii Sports Bowling with younger children to practice number bonds to 10. Write down the number of pins knocked down and those left standing to create a number sentence (7+3 = 10 etc) Some children could be extended by writing down a three part sum with the second ball. Can also use with older children by Full Article…