My whole College assembly for this week, inspired by a resource produced by Doozer on the TES Resource Bank. The last part is timed with a nice lullaby. Whether I’m awake to do it justice if another thing..
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Nothing much new, caught up in coursework and finishing the R.S. and Geography syllabuses.
I’ve started to put revision materials on Pilot Geography related to the pre-release booklet.
The first presentation is comparing Hutton Henry and Harbone, with our place, Ilkeston.
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Also noticed a broken link to the 2008 resources, which people might find useful.
Not much new with KS3, I’ve added a homework task for illustrating the Richter Scale, I like to enlarge them to A3, makes nice display work. I’ve also added a simple starter/review for hurricanes- it has a couple of weather and climate questions included for revision purposes.
Is looming- two weeks and counting for any final submissions….
We will soon begin preparing for the exam, all resources we use can be found under exam, pre-release 2009.
As a taster, here is the first PowerPoint presentation.
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Twitter and hot seating a fictional character.
There’s been much discussion about the use of Twitter within the classroom, so I thought why not have a go… We are currently studying Hurricane Katrina in Year 9 , so I wondered whether we could interview an individual who experienced the event.
I haven’t got a wide Twitter network, so I set up an account for a fictional elementary teacher called Maisy Jay, who lives in New Orleans. I then added Maisy as a follower, and then surprisingly Maisy followed me! Liz Smith was available to act as the character. We briefly arranged beforehand the timing and structure of the lesson.
I like to try new ideas with one of my most challenging classes, I introduced the concept of Twitter, none in the class had heard about it, so there’s food for thought!
A late one due to problems with the web host. The stop disasters hurricane task when down well, so I’ve adapted it for earthquakes.
Also added a couple of new bits for hurricanes, the first is a simple match-up exercise with strategies for reducing the impact of hurricanes. I’ve also added two homework tasks, one is about developing hurricane preparedness within the population and the second about the Saffir-Simpson scale.
