Picture vocabulary

Just a very quick idea for teaching foreign language vocabulary – give children a series of words and ask them to type each one into Google images. Work out what the word means from the pictures. If you want to extend this activity, download one of the pictures and add it to a scrapbook programme Full Article…

Interesting ways to use images in your classroom

Chemical Free

The Royal Society of Chemistry is offering £1,000,000 to anyone who can show them a 100% chemical-free substance, see here for details. Challenge your class to find one, it should be easy as there are hundreds of products advertised as being “chemical free”. There’s a great blog here which names and shames marketers who use the Full Article…

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…

The maths of bar codes

Investigate the maths behind bar codes and QR codes. On-line quiz Create a Pinterest board or a Glog and pin or stick text, images or multimedia that answer some or all of the following questions. All the answers are easily available using a Google search or searching with Wolfram Alpha How many digits does a Full Article…

Collecting things

Scientists through the ages have always liked to organise things into collections and taxonomies as a way of better understanding them or providing a logical methodology for studying them. A great way to do this online with your class is to use Pinterest but beware, it can get addictive! Here is our collection of STEM “pins” but Full Article…