Quentin D’Souza on TeachingHacks.com says “Use the Line and Path measurement tools to find distances that are challenging to measure.” I have used this in maths with an extra bit. Find a regular shaped feature on a map – say a football pitch – and ask children to measure it using the line and path function. 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…
WAW! Where are we today?
Start the day by choosing a city or area with some well known land marks, use Google Earth, project onto whiteboard and zoom down to street level (so that you can still see a few km of the city – depending on the landmarks) then ask the children to guess what city or area it Full Article…
How do you feel?
Younger chidden really like this! Talk about emotions and feelings. Give children particular emotions they have to act (if you have video) or just make facial expressions if you want to use digital cameras to take pictures. Put the videoclips together in IMove or Movie maker or put the digital photos into Powerpoint. Show Full Article…
My Google Earth Life
Get children to create a virtual autobiography. They make placemarks at any location of significance then edit the placemarks to add stories, photos, videos, or URLs This can be where they were born (maybe they can take a digital photo of their birth certificate) the house(s) they have lived in, playgroups or schools they attended, where Full Article…
What is it?
Describe a material in 140 characters on a microblogging site such as Twitter and see if others can guess what the material is without mentioning the word or Chemical symbol. Could do it in groups and see who get the most right. With younger primary children this could mean giving them some materials such as Full Article…