Floppy Disk Art.
An activity I have done in the past with my class involves the use of old 3.5″ floppy disks that would otherwise be sitting in a cupboard taking up valuable real estate. My inspiration for this activity came from the
Say Your Line!
I recently took a group of Stage 3 boys for CAPA. When they asked what we were doing for CAPA, I replied with drama. So many groans and moans were had. I explained to the boys that drama doesn’t have
Pigs. In. Schoooooool!
Bad Piggies was used as an introduction on an activity focusing on potential energy with Stage 3 this week. The game was projected wirelessly to the SMARTboard and a quick descrption was given: The goal of the game is to
“Do you have a licence for that pen?”
UPDATE: July 12th, 2015 Due to Edublogs not letting most visitors download the pen licence template, I have opened a… *unimpressed grunt*, Teachers Pay Teachers account. The unimpressed grunt is my personal belief that resources should be free to better
Can’t Draw? Wrong!
That’s right. If you say you can’t draw, then I’m here to tell you you’re wrong. If you can write letters or numbers, then you have the basics of drawing. Sound impossible? Let me introduce you to Steve Harpster. Steve
Thar Be Treasure in Them Playgrounds!
Lessons on the Goldrush haven’t seem to change much since I was at school. You’d take an excursion to a gold town, watch video clips of miners and towns, write diary entires from someone’s point of view from that era
Classroom Olympics.
During the 2012 Olympics, I did a really deep, day-long lesson/activity with Stage 3 involving the students teaming up into country groups and competing in Olympic games by playing Mario and Sonic at the 2012 Olympic Games on the Nintendo
The Apple and the Adjective.
I’ve been asked to do lessons on adjectives, both as introductions and revisions, for different classes. What I’m going to show you here is how I went about doing this. For this lesson, I needed my iPad, AppleTV setup, a
Door Decoration.
Mid this year, I did a block of work as an ICT teacher for students in Kindergarten to Year 2. A personal project I decided to take up was to decorate the computer room’s door with something, because as it