Found these matchbox resources from my ME830 maths course - while reading Listening Counts.
They are a great way of introducing the unknown in a simple and unchallenging way. Very clever.
Also stumbled onto these manipulatives - looks like a huge range of resources for interactive whiteboard use or class blogs. would be great if they were easily embeddable.
Here's the classic towers of Hanoi puzzle.
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Poetry on Slideshare
Just finishing a 2 week unit on imagery in poems and the class have done a great job of using similes.
I like teaching poetry partly because you don't need to write so much so, in terms used on the MAST maths course, it is a lower threshold activity. They used to call this lower barriers to entry in my Degree Economics course. Again, similar to my MAST activities which were rich tasks, it is definitely a high threshold activity, allowing children to soar when they get the bug!
Our home learning in class this week is to write a poem. Last week 29 out of 33 children handed in their project home learning with an incredible range of presentation styles. Have extended the deadline again this week to just over 2 weeks to allow a slower, more thoughtful, and hopefully higher quality end product. I was reminded of the great slideshare site with its enormous range of slides.
Here is a great teacher resource if you want to save some time teaching a number of poetry styles:
Here is one I'll also post to the class blog.
I like teaching poetry partly because you don't need to write so much so, in terms used on the MAST maths course, it is a lower threshold activity. They used to call this lower barriers to entry in my Degree Economics course. Again, similar to my MAST activities which were rich tasks, it is definitely a high threshold activity, allowing children to soar when they get the bug!
Our home learning in class this week is to write a poem. Last week 29 out of 33 children handed in their project home learning with an incredible range of presentation styles. Have extended the deadline again this week to just over 2 weeks to allow a slower, more thoughtful, and hopefully higher quality end product. I was reminded of the great slideshare site with its enormous range of slides.
Here is a great teacher resource if you want to save some time teaching a number of poetry styles:
Here is one I'll also post to the class blog.
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