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…
Jigsaw planet
Use Jigsaw Planet to create fun on-line jigsaws which can be used across the age range as you can increase the number and complexity of pieces. And for those of you who are still wondering….. Nic and I have been doing each other’s jigsaws for the last half hour – if you want to Full Article…
Today’s reporter
Another idea from Belgium…Carine says it gives children a chance to reflect on the things that happened during a day and provides an opportunity for individuals to share their personal perspective on the different activities they have engaged in. It also helps children learn about how their day is structured. She adds “And it’s always great to 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…
Make your own nature colouring book
Let children use digital cameras to take some pictures of snails, beetles, butterflies or choose a picture e.g a butterfly on Google images. Turn it in to a colouring sheet using iphoto or picassa. (move the exposure, contrast and sharpness to max. Move saturation to minimum.) If necessary, take the image you have produced and Full Article…
Dinosaurs
Make a time line with pictures of dinosaurs using Prezi. With younger children you can construct the template and select the background so that children can ‘drop in’ pictures of dinosaurs they have collected. Older children can do it themselves. Or children can draw the dinosaurs, photograph them and save as jpeg images that you Full Article…