Where I live
Experiment with History Pin. It’s free! It’s an application where people can put old photographs on a location which are then available for others to see. Creates a historical, visual record of say a street. If there are no pictures of your location, get the kids to go and take some and load them onto Full Article…
Mini beasts (4-7yrs)
Use flip vid cameras and get children to pretend they are either beetles or butterflies. Beetles take a camera, crawl on their stomachs through grass and film what beetles may see. Butterflies stand up as tall as they can and fly around with the camera, swooping down onto bright flowers etc. Load onto computer and, Full Article…
Jenny Hughes
I’m Jen Hughes. I work for Pontydysgu – a small company based in Pontypridd in Wales and Bremen in Germany. My job on the Taccle 2 project is to edit the books and write the final copy once we have all decided what is going to go in them. I was a Maths teacher (11-16) Full Article…