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A colleague of mine created the below list of Foundation stage objectives mapped to the use of the Nintendo Wii in the classroom. It helped our staff show parents and others the value and relevance of using a Wii in school. Wii Supports Foundation Stage…
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At the start of our Wild Earth theme I tried to decorate our classroom to represent the Savannah (too many trees I know). It had the desired ‘wow’ effect when the children walked into the classroom for the first time and set the scene really…
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I’m really excited about the theme we are starting next week, ‘Wild Earth’. It’s our year group’s contribution to our whole school ‘Great Outdoors’ focus. The starting point for the theme was taking what worked well during last year’s units of work on rivers and…
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By the end of our Creating Images Literacy Unit, the first core element of our Digital Media Theme, the children had created their own ‘hit singles’ complete with CD Covers. As part of this process they established their own band identities by creating a shared…
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I’ve been excited about this theme since I introduced it for the first time last year. It’s based around the Year 4 Literacy units ‘Creating Images’ and ‘Persuasive Texts’ whilst also encompassing printing skills in Art and graphics, sound/music in ICT. The idea started off…
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This presentation was created for Teach Meet Ed Tech Round Up 2009. It focuses on the use of Mario Kart Wii in a year 4 classroom to enhance learning experiences. http://www.wallwisher.com/ http://www.wordle.net/ http://earth.google.co.uk/ http://www.mindmeister.com/25819414/mario-kart http://primarypete.net/mario-kart-theme
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Ciwii – Curriculum Ideas for Wii. The intention of this project is to act as a central, collaborative resource of ideas for how to use the Nintendo Wii in the classroom. Feel free to embed the CiWii spreadsheet or the contribute form anywhere you choose….
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Below is an overview of our first theme in Year 4 this year, Mario Kart. It shows how we blended learning platform activities and free websites with established teaching techniques. Initial Medium Term Planning using MindMeister: We started by playing Mario Kart on the Wii,…
