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Month: November 2012

Floppy Disk Art.

nmac November 30, 2012November 30, 2012 art, floppy disk, science No Comments

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

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Say Your Line!

nmac November 26, 2012 drama, games-based learning, gbl 1 Comment

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

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Pigs. In. Schoooooool!

nmac November 23, 2012November 24, 2012 bad piggies, games-based learning, gbl, ipad, potential energy, science No Comments

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

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“Do you have a licence for that pen?”

nmac November 16, 2012July 12, 2015 english, pen licence 47 Comments

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

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Can’t Draw? Wrong!

nmac November 13, 2012 art No Comments

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

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Thar Be Treasure in Them Playgrounds!

nmac November 7, 2012 goldrush No Comments

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

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Classroom Olympics.

nmac November 4, 2012November 4, 2012 games-based learning, gbl, olympics, sport, wii No Comments

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

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The Apple and the Adjective.

nmac November 1, 2012November 1, 2012 adjectives, airplay, appletv, games-based learning, gbl, ipad 1 Comment

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

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Door Decoration.

nmac November 1, 2012November 1, 2012 art, ipad No Comments

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

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