MrBarrett111
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Another exploration of a city and some Maths along the way.
Questions are numbered to work through.
Includes work on:
>Area
>Distance - addition
>Conversion of different units
>Subtraction and difference
>Extracting information from a website
Once again I would appreciate any feedback or ideas to extend - or even someone could do a maths post for their own city or town!
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Tom Barrett
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MrBarrett111
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Warren
thanks for taking the time to give some feedback. I appreciate your thoughts. How old are the children in Grade 5 and 6? I teach a Year 6 class who are 10 year olds.
best wishes
Tom
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Zip
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Hi Tom,
We have a "kindergarten" class which is 5-year-olds. That makes our year one (we call it "first grade") 6-year olds. So fourth graders mostly start out as nine-year old. By the end of fifth grade, most of my students are 11.
Sounds like we teach pretty much the same group of kids!
Warren
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MrBarrett111
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This resource utilises the excellent web based information and media available from the BBC about different coastal walks.
Here I have added placemarks for each part of a walk around Portsmouth/Southsea. For each placemark is a link to a panoramic view of that spot, an audio guide giving a brief insight into the history surrounding that point and a link to further information on the BBC website.
After making this I thought that it will never take away from actually being there and smelling the salty sea and feeling the windy spray against your face but it may help some children to experience places that unfortunately perhaps they may never visit for real.
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Class BLOG >> http://priestsic6.learnerblogs.org/
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MrBarrett111
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I am doing this unit later in the summer term and have had a few ideas about it so I have put this small collection together.
Standards site QCA unit
These materials should support your teaching of this unit quite well - designed to be used as a whole class or individually in an ICT suite.
>Geosnapper - a network link that displays geotagged images of where you are in GE. **Remember to vett them before use.**
>Placeopedia - a network link that displays available Wikipedia articles for wherever you are.
>Wainwright's Lake District Peaks - a comprehensive guide to all of the peaks present in Alfred Wainwright's book.
>World's Highest Peaks - a collection of over 150 different high points in different countries across the world. Taken from Valery35's network link but altered so that each view of the peak is seen in perspective. Some of these high points are not much at all - the children could look to reorganise these into hills and mountains. The Encyclopędia Britannica requires a prominence of 610 m (2,000 ft) for it to be deemed a mountain.
>World Hills - a very large collection of hills across the world.
>World Borders - to distinguish the different countries - possible to use the BORDERS tool, but I prefer to teach with this as it has similar use of colour to many atlases.
>The Pennines / The Lake District placemarks.
>Planet Earth DV - Mountains - I am really pleased with this resource which takes advantage of the DV from the BBC Planet Earth TV series. A variety of placemarks with related video footage from mountain footage to mountainous fauna in the rhododendron - take a look . All video opens in Real player. (right click and choose view in Theatre mode for full screen)
See BBC Planet Earth for more.
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Tom Barrett
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Class BLOG >> http://priestsic6.learnerblogs.org/
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MrBarrett111
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Clips of this inspiring series have been released via the Creative Archive and the BBC Planet Earth site. I think that these sorts of resources are exactly the media teachers should be using in classrooms so it is great to have them available.
When working on the Mountains QCA unit I created these GE placemarks with links to the DV footage, but thought that they justified a separate post. Follow links within placemarks to DV footage - opens in Real Player.
Mountains
>Puma Family in the Andes
>Grizzly Bears hunting for moths
>The Alps
>Karakoram aerials
>Markhor goat rut
>Snow leopard hunt
>Rhododendron time lapse
>Panda cub
>Demoiselle cranes
>Kukenon Tepuis aerials
>Angel falls
>Danakil Depression
Edited by MrBarrett111 (04/18/06 03:40 AM)
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MrBarrett111
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Clips of this inspiring series have been released via the Creative Archive and the BBC Planet Earth site. I think that these sorts of resources are exactly the media teachers should be using in classrooms so it is great to have them available.
In this resource I have included the following DV clips and information:
**New** - Freshwater
>Texas blind salamander
>Blind cave fish
>Villa Luz cave, Mexico
>Yucatan Cenotes
>Iguaza Falls
>Pantanal life
>Pantanal caiman kill
>Lake Malawi life
>Lake Baikal life
>Giant salamander
>Diving elephants
>African wild dogs
>Blue Nile gorge
>Tis Isat falls
>Hippos fighting
>Kingfisher strike
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Tom Barrett
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Class BLOG >> http://priestsic6.learnerblogs.org/
My Wikispace on Blogging >> http://classroomblogging.wikispaces.com/
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MrBarrett111
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Reged: 07/28/05
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Clips of this inspiring series have been released via the Creative Archive and the BBC Planet Earth site. I think that these sorts of resources are exactly the media teachers should be using in classrooms so it is great to have them available.
In this resource I have included the following DV clips and information:
Deserts
>Swarming Locusts
>Death Valley bloom
>Namibian Desert elephants
>Flat lizard display
>Utah Canyonlands
>Saguaro Cactus bloom
>Kangaroo Adaptation
>Bactarian camels
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Tom Barrett
My BLOG >> http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/
Class BLOG >> http://priestsic6.learnerblogs.org/
My Wikispace on Blogging >> http://classroomblogging.wikispaces.com/
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MrBarrett111
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Reged: 07/28/05
Posts: 36
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Clips of this inspiring series have been released via the Creative Archive and the BBC Planet Earth site. I think that these sorts of resources are exactly the media teachers should be using in classrooms so it is great to have them available.
In this resource I have included the following DV clips and information:
>Emperor Penguins
>Polar bear cubs
*Please help to expand this resource by posting any suggestions for other examples in this habitat*
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Tom Barrett
My BLOG >> http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/
Class BLOG >> http://priestsic6.learnerblogs.org/
My Wikispace on Blogging >> http://classroomblogging.wikispaces.com/
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>ICT Subject Leader
>Priestsic Primary and Nursery School
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MrBarrett111
Tourist
Reged: 07/28/05
Posts: 36
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Clips of this inspiring series have been released via the Creative Archive and the BBC Planet Earth site. I think that these sorts of resources are exactly the media teachers should be using in classrooms so it is great to have them available.
In this resource I have included the following DV clips and information:
>Diving with humpback whales
>Great white shark
*Please help to expand this resource by posting any suggestions for other examples in this habitat*
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Tom Barrett
My BLOG >> http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/
Class BLOG >> http://priestsic6.learnerblogs.org/
My Wikispace on Blogging >> http://classroomblogging.wikispaces.com/
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