Option 1: Collect and visualise some data collected from your classroom.
Last year when we were learning about data the kids asked me if we could collect data about our sports day teams. We ended up colouring in graph paper squares for what colour team they were in and voted on our favourite events. Our data was displayed in the class and we discussed the findings as a group.
However, after looking at the Piktochart infographic software I have discovered that we could have had so much more fun displaying our data. Not to mention all of the digital technology…
I decided to look at option 1: "sharing information online safely" or "behaving online appropriately". I haven't taught this in a classroom yet because I mainly do relief work but I found a good unit on "Netiquette" on a website for teachers and parents. www.reallifeonline.ca
It has a lesson plan with fun activities for the class.
When writing up a term plan for Fitness lessons to incorporate into my planning, i recently purchased a Fitbit. I had this thought of "what if all my students wore pedometers, then we could track our steps in our fitness lessons, look at the distance and travel somewhere around the world. We could decide on a destination and step it there throughout the year. We could estimate, we could graph and track our progress as a class effort." If only. In an ideal world, my students in my class would be wearing a fit bit and we could be using fitness to go on a d…
The real time data offers great variety and creates excitement through change. Kids have so many options to question and compare
I enable my students to share their learning through their own blog page which I create using edublogs.org. They are linked to my account so that I am able to monitor any comments and posts. We have created avatars using WeeMee and this becomes their online identity. They are very aware of only using their avatar name online and not providing any photos or personal information.
Option 3: I created a worksheet that would ideally be used as an assessment piece so that the teacher would be able to find out where the students were up to in their understanding of binary. It would be suitable for Year 5/6/7 students who have had experience with binary, as according to the Australian Curriculum where binary can be introduced in Years 5 and 6.
Prior to this worksheet being done by students, they would have had numerous opportunities to explore binary and how numbers are represented in binary, such as through the activity at the following webs…
Option 2- An example of an innovative digital technology:
The Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer that is about the size of a deck of cards. It was developed in 2012 by researchers who wanted to give young people, particularly those in 3rd world countries, the opportunity to learn computer programming. The Raspberry Pi has a 32-gigbyte storage drive and is powered by a solar battery so it can even be used in the desert! What an amazing and inexpensive little device which is helping to make coding accessible to children all around the world.
Option 2: FlightRadar24 has endless amounts of data students can collect and represent. One way it can be used is to take a screenshot of the same area at certain times during the day. Over a week, students could use this information they have collected to work out the busiest times of the day for flying. Clicking on the flight, like I have here, gives you information about individual flights. You can look at destinations, how long each flight is, see which carrier has the most planes in the sky. By googling the type of plane you're looking at you can collect …
Option 1: for option one I have looked at the link for a range of scratch games one that stood out was the idea of a quiz. this could be developed through out a larger unit say Ancient Egypt students will work in groups focusing on a smaller topic and creating a quiz for other students to attempt.
Option 1: I have chosen to make a poster about decomposition and what it entails to be placed in the classroom as a point of reference for students
Option 2: Barrier Games
Barrier games are a great way for students to explore a sequence of instructions and they can be lots of fun. They can also be linked to most learning areas as well as support students to develop their vocabulary and oral language. Students also learn the importance of giving detailed instructions and the order of sequence.
Last year, with my primary class, we had been learning about shapes in maths and one of the activities I got students to undertake was a barrier game to help develop their knowledge of the shapes. Students work…
I like the option of exploring past and present technologies within the home. Students could choose a room in the home that interests them to explore and compare the changes and the aspects that have remained the same, eg: a refrigerator, clocks, tools used in the garden or on the farm. There are many similarities in basic process so students could discuss the benefits of some of he added extras – computers screens in fridge doors or GPS navigation in headers.
Option 2: The Atlas of South Australia (see link below), Naturemaps (http://www.naturemaps.sa.gov.au/) and the National Geographic Mapmaker (http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/) are all websites that gather vast amounts of data from censuses (cens…
Visual Programming – Option 1
Using Scratch to create an animated name. Scratch is new to me, it all made sense as I was working through the module, but then when I went to do things, I was lost. I think students would really enjoy doing something about themselves while learning how Scratch works in a supportive environment.
I still need more time to play!
My name is Jasmin, I'm an early career teacher working at Woodville Gardens School in SA. I love using technology with my students and look forward to learning more about the Digital Technologies curriculum and developing some engaging resources along the way!
The Australian Open Tennis website has live data and statistics about games, players, service speed, etc. This is very topical and students can chose a statistic to track & represent in their own way.
Option 3: I think there's great potential here to connect explorations of the history of technologies with other aspects of the Australian Curriculum. In particular, I think I would like make connections with the exploration focus of the Years 4-6 History Curriculum.
For example, it could be interesting for students to engage in an inquiry that examines a number of elements of exploration in the past and the present: transport, communication, navigation and shelter for example. Comparison of the conditions of Douglas Mawson's expedition to Antarctica co…
Option 2 – i found when teaching JP students about data and interpreting data it is useful to use visual aids such as interactive games to reinforce what has been taught. These data handling games and activities help children to understand how data can be displayed in various ways including pictograms, bar charts, pie charts and tally charts. They provide opportunities for data analysis and for children to create their own bar and tally charts.
As a volunteer firefighter with CFA I have seen developing digital technologies have a significant on the safety and way we approach fire fighting. On the fire ground the new digital radios ensure VicFire know who we are the minute we press the button to talk (decreasing confusion around what appliance is where), in a mayday situation we can give a specific grid position so others know where we are and soon VicFire will be able to plot he position of all appliances on the fire ground.
For the community the linking of advice warnings to smart phone apps has mad…
There are so many different ideas that come to mind with this task that link in brilliantly with Science and English. My class and I always have a lot of fun with procedure writing because they know that they will swap procedures with at least one other student and do exactly what the instructions say, much like the 'Jam Sandwich' example as a test of how well the procedure has been written. Once completed students swap back and if needed add more detail to particular steps in order for others to interpret them more easily.
In Science flow charts, like …