Classroom Spotlight - What Have You Been Up To In School This Week?
Time once more to highlight some of the more memorable teaching pictures that crossed our social media feeds this week… 1 Crumbs! Putting the ‘nom’ into ‘natural phenomena’ is this biscuit-assisted approach to teaching plate tectonics… Loved making Oreo plate boundaries with Year 8 this morning! #geographyteacher pic.twitter.com/IFXoV7JrMI — Amy Searle (@MissASearle) January 14, 2016 […]
Time once more to highlight some of the more memorable teaching pictures that crossed our social media feeds this week…
1 Crumbs!
Putting the ‘nom’ into ‘natural phenomena’ is this biscuit-assisted approach to teaching plate tectonics…
Loved making Oreo plate boundaries with Year 8 this morning! #geographyteacher pic.twitter.com/IFXoV7JrMI
— Amy Searle (@MissASearle) January 14, 2016
2 Less than zero
A tweet (and illuminating conversation thread) that suggests a new way of looking at negative numbers…
@Simon_Gregg @CuisenaireCo exploring negative numbers with year 6. Any other ways of visualising this with rods? pic.twitter.com/hyCXZQqTg5
— stocklandmaths (@stocklandmaths) January 13, 2016
3 Cutting edge
A Y3 class at Overdale Junior School in Lesicester [http://www.overdale-jun.leicester.sch.uk/] gets to grips with the intricacies of ‘dge’…
Miss Dighton's spelling group worked super hard again today! 'J is spelt -dge' after a short vowel sound e.g judge. pic.twitter.com/AYGPTbobZv
— Lauren Dighton (@Its_me_MissD) January 13, 2016
4 Setting the scene
Pupils engaged in some evidently painstaking work during a computing class at RGS Worcester…
Animation in action @rgsthegrange making animations on 'How the Internet works' pic.twitter.com/dzXypBsyoz
— RGS Computing Dept (@RGSWComputing) January 12, 2016
5 Lateral thinking
And finally, a bright idea from a pupil in a class taught by Ideagasm author, Stephen Lockyer
#pedagoofriday An analogue hack suggested by one of my pupils! pic.twitter.com/W7iIX3Bq1D
— Stephen Lockyer (@mrlockyer) January 15, 2016