Social media for reading! Awesome way to teach digital citizenship alongside reading.
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Wednesday, 8 June 2016
What is Chapter Chat?
Social media for reading! Awesome way to teach digital citizenship alongside reading.
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
How do we teach science through literacy?
Shared Best Practice at Canterbury Science Week workshops.
Lisa M, Shane B, Urmi S, Hannah M - Brilliant presenters from Merrin School
What was going on?
ALL
Primary schools criticised for not teaching science well
Wanted to achieve:
motivate stimulate and excite children especially reluctant writers
sustainable
improve teacher practice
explicit teaching of science
building relationships with monitored students
provides clear specific steps
parents involved - notified with fish and chip evening and experiments. Explaining how we teach.
students come to value 1-1 time and small group teaching
Experiments must have ...
- WOW fact
- a little bit naughty
- targeted mostly to boys
- smelly, noisy colourful
- doing not showing or telling
- fun
- new
Improving Teacher Practice..
- research great sites
- focus on writing reading was part of researching
- keep reading program going for lower level readers
- Frame experiments through conjectures and inquiry mindset
- visuals to support text student created - explain everything app
- video and pics created greater involvement and ownership
- developing oral language through apps
- Had expectation that there would be progress
- layout of classroom was important to access visuals
- Monitored students around teacher desk
- Growing and dev t knowledge concepts and big ideas
- Skilled up to ask the right questions prior to the learning.
Process
Whanau intro and gain support
select 15 experiments
send out google form for students to select top 10 developing student agency
Making it sustainable -
- meeting Monday to ensure success for all
- reflected on issues to modify and to extend and make easier
also on how can we use this approach in other areas of the school
- creativity embraced
- explicit teaching of Science
see slide
Mon - model and conduct experiment, set and review goals. Slow and deep modify designs, what if....
Tuesday - Discuss experiment revisit review things done, bring in conceptual vocab, modelling books, develop action command verbs (get is toxic and grab), concept words, nouns in one colour, verbs in one colour, etc, must be visual procedural process, group work for those who need it or modelling,
Thurs - review scientific explanation and write conclusion. Don't give answers get them to research it. Always ask How can we make the world a better place now that we know this.
Fri - publish
Must See Science Websites
You tube clips
Royal Society - top 20 science primary activities
science kids
www.sciencebob
stevespangler
nanogirl
Lisa M, Shane B, Urmi S, Hannah M - Brilliant presenters from Merrin School
What was going on?
ALL
Primary schools criticised for not teaching science well
Wanted to achieve:
motivate stimulate and excite children especially reluctant writers
sustainable
improve teacher practice
explicit teaching of science
building relationships with monitored students
provides clear specific steps
parents involved - notified with fish and chip evening and experiments. Explaining how we teach.
students come to value 1-1 time and small group teaching
Experiments must have ...
- WOW fact
- a little bit naughty
- targeted mostly to boys
- smelly, noisy colourful
- doing not showing or telling
- fun
- new
Improving Teacher Practice..
- research great sites
- focus on writing reading was part of researching
- keep reading program going for lower level readers
- Frame experiments through conjectures and inquiry mindset
- visuals to support text student created - explain everything app
- video and pics created greater involvement and ownership
- developing oral language through apps
- Had expectation that there would be progress
- layout of classroom was important to access visuals
- Monitored students around teacher desk
- Growing and dev t knowledge concepts and big ideas
- Skilled up to ask the right questions prior to the learning.
Process
Whanau intro and gain support
select 15 experiments
send out google form for students to select top 10 developing student agency
Making it sustainable -
- meeting Monday to ensure success for all
- reflected on issues to modify and to extend and make easier
also on how can we use this approach in other areas of the school
- creativity embraced
- explicit teaching of Science
see slide
Mon - model and conduct experiment, set and review goals. Slow and deep modify designs, what if....
Tuesday - Discuss experiment revisit review things done, bring in conceptual vocab, modelling books, develop action command verbs (get is toxic and grab), concept words, nouns in one colour, verbs in one colour, etc, must be visual procedural process, group work for those who need it or modelling,
Thurs - review scientific explanation and write conclusion. Don't give answers get them to research it. Always ask How can we make the world a better place now that we know this.
Fri - publish
Must See Science Websites
You tube clips
Royal Society - top 20 science primary activities
science kids
www.sciencebob
stevespangler
nanogirl
Goals
One piece of writing published a week on blog
draft edit publish must use technology
assessed own writing
used google docs to write collaboratively - peer feedback
Apps to support surface features -
TDLR - ext in google docs
Grammarly
Speech function on google docs
conjectures - google topicMonday, 27 April 2015
How can I activate inquiry through literacy?
Activate thinking before as well as during the inquiry.
Children explain to others the picture given to them (Fishbowl)
Sequence in order of the story as you think it should be
Justify
Explain
Read story reflect
What changed? What was powerful?
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