Week 4- Yummy Projects and Dust Echoes- Ancient Stories and Integrate it in to Curriculum

In today's Learning Technologies workshop we played with different activities to do in our classroom. The first was the, M&M activity- you can also use little coloured cut outs (dots or stars)

Firstly, ask students before they open the packet- to make predictions about weight and different colours of how many might be in the bag.

Once the bag is open have the children sort them by colour and weigh them.

Students then fill in the graph. See my example above :). 

Additionally, students can create graph on computer using excel see my example below. 

Ideas with graph’s- do survey’s across the school, ‘what is your eye colour?’, ‘what is your favourite flavour of ice cream?’

http://www.m-ms.com.au/index.html

                                                                              

During part two of our workshop we played with a website that was all about indigenous culture. Using the website: http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/dustEchoesFlash.htm

along with inspirations we created a diagram. The website had different movies on in and we captured pictures of the main events in the story to retell what had happened in the movie. Afterwards we were able to look at everyones work in our class. It was so cool to see what everyone did. This would be a great activity in the classroom!