Let the students search on Google Maps to discover if the Earth contains more ocean than land. Explore the water cycle. Ask some questions like ‘Where do you think rain comes from?’, ‘Does it rain every where?’ After students have shared their ideas, they try to find some explanations. In Glogster they will make a Full Article…
Tin-foil hats
Here’s an interesting piece of research you may wish to share with your class On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study There’s an accompanying website here too! This work was done back in 2005 so after reading the information on the website and the published research you could challenge your class to Full Article…
A physics experiment for a special day
What you need: Devices: You need a webcamera or just a mobile device to record the experiment Web 2.0: Youtube, find proper music with CC licensed (go to http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos), Glogster to create a poster See the experiment here: http://incepator.edu.glogster.com/special-pentru-voi More activities here http://fizicacosbuc.pbworks.com/w/page/5804536/Clasa%20virtuala%20de%20FIZICA
Pinterest Poem
“A work of art is, above all, an adventure of the mind” Overview: Pupils read, perform and document themes and images from a selected poem to enhance the kinaesthetic approach to learning. Each learner/group of learners create a Pinterest board based on a poem of their choice. We used The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Full Article…
Mosaics and Pixels
Age 11yrs Ease ** Overview: This activity allows learners to create and develop a real mosaic using coloured stones/card squares to represent pixels. It helps them understand the theory of image production by studying the history of mosaic and the representation of electronic images produced by printers which operate using pixels Full Article…
The Future Internet
Loved this for the clear way in which the content was presented but even more for the graphics and the media mixing of video, still pictures, images of hand drawn flip chart pages and stop-motion.