Consolidate previous lessons on voice work, character and themes in a set text. Students create an extra scene (for example, in Blood Brothers, they could write the scene in which Mrs. Lyons tells Eddie about Linda’s affair). They write the dialogue and record their own voice work to present to the class. As an unusual Full Article…
Wordle Ways (for teaching literature)
Wordles are particularly suited to short activities such as warm-ups or as prerunners/introductions to larger discussions and tasks. They are also an eyecatching way of presenting familiar terms for revision/introduction. Here are some possibilities: Why not start a class with some wordles made from different Shakespeare tragedies and see if they can guess Full Article…
Looking at landscapes
Use Google Earth (or Google Maps if you haven’t got to grips with Google Earth!) Divide the class into groups and give each group a location. (You can use the line or path function on Google earth to do this) Give the class a series of tasks or questions. The less able group might be Full Article…
Story pathways
You can use Google Earth place marks as the basis of storytelling. Get the children to use Google Earth to plan a journey – start small! (A local cycle path is often a good start, or somewhere they visited on a school trip). Trace the journey using the path tool (click on the ruler in Full Article…
Environmental river project
Thanks to teacher Chris Smit for this one… Use Google Earth for an environmental river project. Locate the source of a river and follow it to the mouth, entering a sea or lake Use the altitude information on Google to calculate the difference in altitude between the origin and the mouth Mark all geographical spots Full Article…
Shakespeare on the map
Another idea from the “Interesting Ways to…” teachers “Use Google Earth as an introduction to Shakespeare. Visit Stratford upon Avon and find the house that he was born in. Zoom over to the banks of the Thames, switch on the 3D building layer and load up the Globe Theatre model. Explore the inside structure of the theatre, with Full Article…