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Hindmarsh Island
I really enjoyed our class camp last week to Hindmarsh Island, near Goolwa on the Fleurieu Peninsula. It was good to get to know my students some more in a different environment away from the classroom...
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What Can A Word Cloud Tell Us About Our Place In The World?
Just a quick reflection on a tuning in activity I did with the class this afternoon. We're starting a new Inquiry unit titled "Why Is The World Coming To Adelaide?" which has a focus on examining the...
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If we want our students to understand why certain groups of people from around the world chose to leave their home and end up in Adelaide (my students' home town) , then an overall sense of modern...
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I quite enjoyed the first day of training for the Intel Thinking With Technology course today. A small group of ten educators who are being trained to take this course back to their sites made for an...
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Scaling Down: What Can You Do With This: Groceries
I make no secret that I really enjoy Dan Meyer's blogging and his ideas around engaging mathematics. If I was a high school Maths teacher, I'd be rewriting my own curriculum and unit plans around many...
View ArticleLaying The Groundwork For Our 2010 Inquiry Units
I've posted this to my Group in my role for a PLP cohort, but want to post the bulk of it here as a way of documenting part of how we start the school year. I don't pretend to be an expert on Inquiry...
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Primary Connections Science Workshop
The upcoming National Curriculum is part of a push for the improved teaching of Science and Mathematics. There has been Federal money flowing to the states to provide teacher training to support this,...
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What Are You Listening To?
This is a graph created by our two Year Seven classes as part of our inquiry unit "What Are You Listening To?" The graph was the result of an exercise that asked the students the question "How do songs...
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Crowdsourcing To Supplement My Meager Scientific Knowledge
Belinda, my neighbour in our new classroom block, went for a look at one of the newly amalgamated schools in the northern suburbs of Adelaide (dubbed one of the so called "super schools" by the...
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Headspace
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdarkroom/4265886842/ Frank, my boss, likes to talk about three types of space in school - physical space, virtual space and teacher headspace. The first two only get used...
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