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Project Based Learning - Materials - Full Plan

22 Aug 2017

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These pictures can be drawn or cutout of magazines.Extension: As anextension to thisactivity, the sentencesproduced by thechildren can betransferred tocomputer, clip art usedfor the objects and thefinished sentencesprinted out.Differentiation: This activity should be suitable for pupils of all abilities.Numeracy Lesson 6: Objective areas (Key Stage 1)Aims of the lesson: To measure and calculate the area of simple shapes using counting methods and standard units.Activity: The sheet opposite shows two objects (a pen and a crayon) drawn against a background of 1 cm squared graph paper.Begin by copying this page and distributing it to groups of pupils or individual pupils. Different objects will have differentareas and the aim of this activity is not (initially) to work out the real area of a real pen, but to use this task as a means ofdeveloping counting methods and the use of standard units. 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      string(4022) "the students have learned. The 10-question quiz covers content, skills and vocabulary from the lesson and with the online version, it is automatically scored and teachers receive a breakdown of the marks, showing where there are weaknesses in students’ understanding. The videos are divided into subjects, including all the core subjects as well as life skills, vocabulary and current events. The popular culture aspect is best represented in their weekly series ‘The week in rap’ in which the previous week’s current events are distilled into a summary video accompanied by a ‘Flocabulary’ rap. There is a version of this for KS 3 & 4 and one for the juniors, aimed at KS 2. The one drawback of this video series, however, is that it is written for an American audience so some of the terminology and current events items are less relevant to UK educators. Many of the videos are in the form of songs, raps or stories and they incorporate pop culture references, including James Bond, various sport themes, super heroes, fairy tales, and other topics that would be of interest to students. There are also accompanying detailed lesson plans, vocabulary cards, games, ‘read and respond’ prompts and a feature called ‘Lyric Lab’, which allows students to write their own rap lyrics based on the vocabulary from that week’s lesson. Flocabulary is a subscription-based service with individual teacher or institutional rates available.The Museum of Pop Culturewww.mopop.orgMOPOP in Seattle, Washington has dedicated itself to all things pop culture, and, like most museums, education is an important aspect of the work they do. They offer a variety of educational resources, including lesson plans, oral history interviews and teaching tips on iTunes University. The lesson plans are all free and, although they were developed to connect to exhibitions at the museum, they can be easily tailored to fit into a classroom and the information can be found on recordings and other media.  There are five lesson plans on the site. There is the ‘Anthropology of Punk’, which is an ethnographic study of how punk music forms a part of recent popular culture, particularly in relation to its evolution in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and its popularity through Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. Geared toward students in KS 4-5, it introduces the concept of observing popular culture as an anthropological practice. Source materials include Kurt Cobain’s journals, Billboard and Rolling Stone magazine articles and Nirvana recordings. ‘Poet as songwriter, songwriter as poet: Cobain, Dylan, Shakespeare, and more’ is a lesson plan geared toward students from KS 3-5, focusing on areas of reading, communication and music. The plan looks at the development of poetry from Shakespeare to the Victorians through to modern times, using examples of how it has been connected to music in various times. The information is good, although the lesson activities are limited for this, leaving scope for more current or relevant material to be incorporated. For the ‘Battlestar Galactica’ lesson, students experiment with dramatic script reading and developing strategies for theatrical improvisation. For younger students, there are two lesson plans, one on the ‘Science of Sound’, which explores how students use their knowledge of science and energy to discover how sounds are generated and turned into musical forms. The other plan is on ‘Rhythmic Speech’ or rap and directs students to build vocabulary through musical exercises. These lesson plans are a great introduction to using pop culture as a mode of inquiry, especially for secondary students, and the oral history recordings on the site are an excellent resource for student projects and for looking at how to examine the lives of artists, musicians and filmmakers and their contributions to the world. "
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Creative Teaching & Learning

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17 Feb 2016