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Data logging in the Primary Classroom

Data logging in an excellent example of how to integrate computing and technology into the primary curriculum. Using this equipment helps to bring science alive and develops children’s confidence with using technology that is different from what they usual encounter in class. Data logging equipment today is simple to use and reasonably priced. Data Harvest, […]

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Photographs for Teaching

I am a fan of using photography in the classroom as you can see from previous blogs. At times though we need good quality photographs for teaching that we haven’t taken ourselves. We all know of Google search and other photography sites such as https://www.flickr.com. However we could run into licence and image quality issues. I do have […]

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Twitter Recommendations

Lists, maybe you love them or hate them. Personally I am not very good at making them. However, today I appeared on one! Many thanks to Promethean World who listed me amongst their Twitter Recommendations here http://bit.ly/23Ox7VI I certainly appear alongside some impressive tweeters. Usually, these type of lists of recommended people always seem to have […]

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Supporting the EAL child in the Primary Science Classroom

Supporting the EAL child in the Primary Science classroom requires the use of real concrete objects. Using real objects will provide more vocabulary. To get this message across I started off with the teachers gathering together all the vocabulary they could think of for a lemon. When they had done this, I then showed them a coloured […]

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