Archive for November, 2007
Over the next three days, I’m working with Year 10 students from Bilston High School on a web design project. During the project, students will learn how to create a website using HTML for structure and CSS for styling. A presentation, links and ideas from the sessions can be found in the “Web Design Resources” post.
Below are the student instructions for the sessions:
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filed under Session Reports November 6th, 2007 Richard Anderson
As I’m working this week with a group of Year 10 students from Bilston High on a three day web design course, I thought I’d take the opportunity to collect together resources to support the teaching of web design to Key Stage 3/4 students (age 11 - 16).
My approach to teaching web design is basically this: Read the rest of this entry »
filed under Session Resources November 5th, 2007 Richard Anderson
Wikipedia is a great (OK, unbelievably incredible) resource, but as anyone who uses it regularly knows, not all of the content is entirely suitable for educational use, either because it is more adult in nature, or too complex or expansive to unpick for school use.
Now we have the 2007 Schools Wikipedia Selection, a collection of Wikipedia articles that would amount to a 15-volume encyclopedia, handpicked for their relevance to the UK National Curriculum.
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filed under Best of the Web November 4th, 2007 Richard Anderson
During Day 2 of their space project, Year 9 students from The Northicote School participated in the following activities:
- A research / analysis exercise based on the Moon Landing “hoax” (the idea that the moon landings in the late 1960s / early 1970s were faked and were filmed in a Hollywood studio). How do we evaluate evidence?
- Surviving in Space - How do you sleep in space? How do you go to the toilet in space?
- Exploring the International Space Station using the Virtual ISS simulator
- Designing and building Mars Landers to safely landed an egg dropped from a height
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filed under Session Reports November 1st, 2007 Richard Anderson
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On 31st Oct. 2007, as part of a 2-day project on space and space travel, Year 9 students from The Northicote School participated in a video link-up with Dr. Matthew Kenworthy, an astronomer working at the University of Arizona in Tucson, USA. During the interview, students asked Dr. Kenworthy about his research, his life in the USA, and about “hot topics” such as the Moon Landing “hoax”, life on other planets, and the future of the Sun and our Solar System.
Dr. Kenworthy very kindly agreed to speak to the students at 7 a.m. in Arizona (2 p.m. GMT). Read the rest of this entry »
filed under News and Podcast November 1st, 2007 Richard Anderson
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