Best geographical homework excuse…
Monday, October 10th, 2011Going to see whether we can have some fun writing these for homework.
Archive for the ‘Teaching Ideas’ Category
The one where we did top trumping…
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
Each student in my Key Stage 3 classes has adopted an Africa country this term. We have been answering the register with our country and capital each lesson, but this week each student produced a top trump for their country, which lead to some interesting debate. Once finished we intend to have a big game!
Template can be downloaded from here. (PPT 136kb).
Boardworks- teaching about the summer riots.
Saturday, September 17th, 2011Boardworks have released some free content to help geography educators support teaching about the summer riots. As part of this I provided a few ideas that could be used.
ICT across the curriculum
Sunday, January 18th, 2009Thanks to Rob Chambers for emailing me about this new blog, some useful ideas already related to SMART boards… which I’ll investigate over the coming weeks.
And the inspectors said…
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
Just liked this generator, could be a nice one for learning objectives or quiz questions.
100 Best You Tube videos for teachers
Thursday, August 14th, 2008A range of videos that might be useful to colleagues. Which ones would you add? Thanks to Kelly for bringing to his my attention.
Baptism by Fire
Monday, August 11th, 2008A useful list of ideas here for beginning and experienced teachers. Hat-tip Patricia.
Wordle
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Has excited many people of late, thanks Noel Jenkins. Here is a Wordle of our aims, vision and values.
How to survive secondary school?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
VideoJug: Ask The Kids: How To Survive Secondary School
Another great little video, I like the idea of producing a similar video for College.
Embeddable Google Maps- Berlin Style.
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Inspired by Noel Jenkins, I’ve been having a play with Google Maps for a couple of projects I want to work on over the coming year. The maps are now embeddable, you can add images and videos as well. Here is an example of a Berlin walk from the MFL-Humanities visit, including a video from student blogger Stringy, it took me around twenty minutes. Direct link.
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