Archive | 2013

Stem Education

There are many debates about getting children into STEM employment. Here from the ASPIRES project at Kings College London, a document outlining 10 fact or fictions about this issue. I received a copy of this on one of my units of work as part of my MA and thought I should share it. I am sure […]

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Planet Images

Well I have now received images of two planets from the Bradford Robotic Telescope; Mars and Jupiter.  Here is a great chance to compare the size of these planets in these photographs with those found on the NASA website http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/about/, along with other images that are available through google searches.   Here is an image taken from NASA’s casini spacecraft, rather different […]

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Telescope Images of the Moon

Well here are my seven images of the moon. There are a variety of teaching ideas that could be developed from them and you will notice that not all of the phase has been captured. I have organised another week of observing.     I had also ordered an image with a short exposure time. This image of the […]

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Space Resources

I am in the process of gathering together a variety of resources for teaching this topic. I also hope to include some examples of children’s work. Here is a PowerPoint presentation showing the phases of the moon. This was shown to the children and they would record each phase in their science books. However, rather than just […]

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Teaching Primary Children About Space

Whilst covering a CPD course on primary science last year, a teacher attending believed that the topic of Space was more likely to involve information gathering and teacher imparting knowledge, rather than hands on practical science. Having taught this subject quite a bit in my career, this is not a view that I hold and […]

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Photography Ideas In Education 1

Schools continue to spend large amounts of money on tablets, whilst I have no views at this time on how beneficial these resources are, I do question why schools are prepared to purchase such expensive items but appear reluctant to buy digital cameras?  As I travel around various schools I see the teachers using digital […]

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Photography Ideas In Education 2

Using pictures to introduce topics is very common now in schools. However I believe children should be taught how to use a camera properly. Then use their photos to develop ideas and learn about different aspects of our world. Anyway here are a few I took earlier: Children can discuss differences between their pictures and […]

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Working in Shropshire

Once again I had the chance to go and work with the children from St Mary’s Primary School Bucknell. The school is very small so the children get more opportunities to be independent learners and they are going to run their school podcast and blog.  I went down to help them become familiar with audacity […]

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Apps To Help Autistic Children Communicate

Following a request on Linked In for suitable apps to help autistic children communicate, I thought I would gather together some of the suggestions here. I suggested speechbox which I haven’t had the chance to use but it certainly looks interesting http://www.speechboxapp.com/ I must say, it does look good value in comparison to some of the recommendations. Bitsboard […]

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Internet Potential

The Internet is truly an amazing resource, not just for basic teaching ideas but it gives our children the chance to connect with others around the world. ‘Voices around the world’ is a not for profit project which is linking the voices of young people around the world. In 2012 more than 300 schools from […]

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