Thursday 19 July 2012

Apps for Your Primary Classroom

The below list of iOS Apps was originally stored at http://web.me.com/thisisliam. These apps have all been used by us in our Key Stage Two classroom. Although this list links to the iTunes Store many of these apps are also available on other operating systems too:
Image credit: www.apple.com

Art

Geography

History

Literacy

Maths 

Basic Math

MFL

Music

Other 

Photography

Puzzles

Science

SEN 

We'd welcome your additions. Add them as comments below and to our previous post about apps. Since this post, we've blogged about more apps here.

Tuesday 10 July 2012

The Angles Roller Coaster

We believe that to give learning purpose and ignite interest it's important to link learning to real life situations. We have demonstrated this in some of our previous blog posts.

For this post we are looking at a real life situation for measuring and drawing angles in maths. We decided upon roller coasters as a good subject to base our lesson on. Roller coasters, after all, are all about angles!

Firstly, reading the angle of rises and falls on roller coasters involved looking at pictures of roller coasters. Then, drawing on lines to show the angle to be measured and then measuring this angle. We discussed what angles made the best roller coasters and why different angles were used. Below is an example of this:

Next, came drawing angles. Using the knowledge gathered from the 'reading angles' lesson the children had a go at drawing their own roller coasters. They then peer assessed which roller coasters they liked the look of, which they did not and why:

 
Give it a go. See what stomach churning rides your class can come up with...

Thursday 5 July 2012

School Twitter Account (Part 3)

For this third post we want to look at some examples:

Did you read
Part 1 and Part 2


 Image credit: twitter.com

Below are some examples of school's Twitter feeds. Have a look at what they're Tweeting about:




If you have or know of a school Twitter account that would be good to look at please add it to the comments below. 

Read 'Part 4'.