Just had a really useful meeting over coffee. We have firmed up some of the ideas about how we collect ideas for STEM. There are three sorts of ‘items’ we would like to capture and include. ‘Shorts’ – these are the instant ideas that occur to you over coffee! You really don’t want to write Full Article…
Viewing 265 to 270 of 422 items
Egg in a bottle
You can use a variety of Web 2.0 tools such as Animoto, YouTube, or any other video-sharing sites which allows you to use with subtitles (such as Windows Movie maker or PhotoStory) to record experiments, such as the one above.
The great science movie
Description This is a team activity that runs over a semester. The goal is to make a movie where all the main topics or concepts of the subject are covered so it can be used as a good revision tool for studying for an exam. Every group has to make a short movie with an Full Article…
Documentary Divas!
Overview: In pairs, learners prepare, film and present a short ‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentary. One learner takes the role of the ‘star’ or ‘diva’ (popular choices include are Marilyn Monroe, King Henry VIII and Andy Warhol!) the other takes the role of interviewer/film maker. Description: Show learners http://www.ehow.com/video_4755794_documentary-filmmaking-techniques.html or similar clip. This will give them an overview Full Article…
10 days of…math tweets
Description An idea for using twitter to crowd source answers to mathematical questions. In a period of ten days you can ask each student to tweet one question relating to maths or science. The content of the tweet should be a picture (taken somewhere in the student’s neighbourhood) with a question. This way you can Full Article…
Bustin’ Moves!
11yrs+ Overview: Getting boys to willingly participate in dance lessons is a perennial problem for many teachers! Here, we’ve used a combination of fun software, appealing video clips and lesson objectives to try and meet the issue head-on. Description: It is assumed that learners will have SOME knowledge of basic dance elements e.g. composition, special Full Article…
English
Nederlands
Deutsch
Italiano
Español
Português
Română
Cymraeg