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Of all the classroom technologies to come along, the multimedia projector – probably more than any other, has started a revolution in the way we approach the teaching and learning task with our students. In this article we explain the why, how and what about using this technology. |
(from the) MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA Short activities based on ideas about rivers, fish and our aquatic environment in general. Cross-curricula in nature with a science, English and social sciences theme. Links to the arts and mathematics. Teachers can expand on any of the ideas easily to make a topic for a larger unit of work. |
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Tearing a paper shape. Following instructions. Designing a food container. |
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Designing a new Olympic Flag. Designing a Ten-Pin bowling set. Alphabet mathematics. |
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A traffic census (maths/language) Lists and more lists. Who speaks what and where is it spoken – an investigation. |
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Planning the perfect holiday. We all have special dates. |
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Visual Arts/Maths/English. Daily bread motivation. Exploring food chains. Top Ten Data. My special place |
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Jigsaw painting. Exploring our highways. Pacific quiz. Animals are great. Useless things. |
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Cardboard paper cone masks. On the spot radio broadcasts. Sound words. Drama vignettes. I've been everywhere. Images of people. |
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Focus on physical exercise. Fun with apples. Planning a great escape. Focus on buildings. |
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Developing self esteem. Cartoon captions. Thinking about rules. It's a goal. A day in the life. Who's left standing? |
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Materials we use. Natural disasters. Important events. Helicopters technology challenge. |
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Primary colours. Imaginative thinking. Collecting words. |
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Drama – instant improvisations. Physed circuit swimming. Newspaper maths. Going green. |
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Earliest memory. Stranger than 'friction'. Right or wrong. The future today. |
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Using photography in the classroom – a cross curricular approach. |
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Discoverers of New Zealand. A student research project. |
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Wacky Letterboxes. Promoting our city or town using stamps. |
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Bright Ideas on an environmental theme – water conservation and conserving our natural resources. |
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Earliest Memory – sharing early memories with each other in written and oral form. Stranger than Friction – science based experiments with objects and surfaces. Right or Wrong – general knowledge and spelling activities. Holiday Destinations – interviewing other students and parents about places in New Zealand plus thumbnail sketches of local and overseas destinations. |
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Joining Up – why and whom join clubs? Investigations and role plays. Sense of smell activities. Writing anti-advertisements. Writing captions for cartoons. |
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Sound sequence words – following instructions and lists of words that imitate sounds. Wet Lunch Times – placing subjects and activities in curriculum areas, listing activities in categories, planning and rostering lunch time activities for wet days. (English). Atlas Skills. Planning and running regular school radio news bulletins. |
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Giving paragraphs a title. Investigations and interviews about changing styles of music over the years. Box design challenge. |
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Communicating feelings with music and appropriate instruments. Matching maths activities with activities and apparatus to help develop and understanding of these concepts. Investigations into pop music. |
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How old are we? – exactly. Writing precise descriptions. Newspaper maths. Science investigation. Making work easier. What do we use? |
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Solving a shipwreck scenario. Investigating humour. Coping with anger strategies. Time and time zone investigations. |
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Language of advertising. Investigations in to the devices that advertisers use to entice us to buy their products. You are the Experts. Compiling data bases about different communities in New Zealand. |
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All about being cold. Investigations into how and why we feel cold, what measures we take to combat being cold, finding out how penguins combat the cold and the equivalent clothing a human would have to wear to be as insulated from the cold as a penguin. |
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Imaginings and Investigations: Icons of towns and cities. Holiday research planning. The Top of the South. Our Capital City. |
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Dial a Town; Maori Place Names; Exploring Highways. |
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Creating databases; Number Words; Drama with Comics; Stained Glass Windows, Monsters |
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It's not what we predicted! In this imaginative scenario, students become eminent scientists who find out that rather than global warming, the earth is in for a mini ice age. What problems will this bring and how will they solve it? |