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Human Body: Interactive Resources

Some resources on the human body.  Lots of interactive stuff.

• Tour Of The Human Body

• 10 Craziest Facts About The Human Body | UPickReviews

• Children's Museum - Bones Exhibit

• 10 Things You Didn't Know About You | LiveScience

• Human Body Quiz Game.

• Yucky Gross & Cool Body

• How the Body Works

• index.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

• MEDtropolis - Virtual Body

• BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind

• Visible Body | 3D Human Anatomy

• All Systems Go

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Posted at 11:27AM Feb 28, 2009 by Concetta Gotlieb  | 

Mini Science Fair Part 1

Day 1 - Water

Dancing Raisons (video)

Step 1: Fill glass with Lemonade

Step 2: Add raisons to glass

Step 3: Wait

Milky swirls

Step 1: Add a layer of milk to a tray

Step 2: Put small drops of food colouring in the milk

Step 3: Add a small drop of detergent on each drop of food colouring

Zoom Vehicle

Step 1: String fishing wire between two chairs

Step 2: Blow up a balloon

Step 3: Sticky tape a length of straw to the balloon

Step 4: Decorate the balloon

Step 5: Release balloon and watch it fly

Marshmallow towers

Step 1: Use marshmallows to build a tower

Step 2: Find tallest tower

Step 3: Eat marshmallows

Other links

• Surfing Scientist
• Experimentals 
• Try Science
• PBS Zoom Sci
• Discover Science
  

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Posted at 09:06PM Nov 16, 2008 by Concetta Gotlieb  | 

Art made by the environment

This video from the Make blog got me thinking about projects for kids.  Imagine doing a weather chart in the same way with kids.  Each day dip a piece of string into some paint in different shades marking the amount of sunshine, stick the pieces of string onto containers and then looking at the results.  Technology, art, science, environment, literacy all in one.  I think this is what digital literacy is about.  Using all kinds of mediums and media to communicate messages large and small.  Very cool Thomas Traxier.

Tags: video science literacy weather art
Posted at 08:13PM Nov 13, 2008 by Concetta Gotlieb  | 

Fun projects with a technology twist

Lately I have seen a couple of great examples of how to integrate technology with students in practical ways.  How we keep this and pass the knowledge around - mostly through twitter is almost as interesting as the projects themselves.

• I have been working on documenting procedures visually using cooking projects like Nonna and iMovie.
  
• Stephen Drummer is teaching his kids about the 16 Habits of Mind by getting them to blog about a burger.  Check out his blog at BurgerTeach.
  
• Jenny Luca's project is 25 Days to Make a Difference
  
• Tom Barrett (UK) has been working on visual instructions with how to fold a t-shirt in 2 seconds.
• And of course my mum using Wordle to come up key words for learning themes.
  

It would be great to see how you are integrating technology into the curriculum.  Particularly if you're a primary school teacher so I can steal your ideas :).

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Posted at 05:31PM Oct 15, 2008 by Concetta Gotlieb  |  Comments[2]

Let Them Fiddle With Things

This video by Jonathon Drori demonstrates using practical examples why it is important to use a mix of explanation and exploration when teaching.

I think this idea applies to curriculum planning also.  It is important to tinker with our curriculum planning to suit the students, the technology available and other contextual factors.  I think blogs are a great way for teachers to discuss how we can modify our curriculum to ensure we get the most out of resources, technology.  It's also a place for us to collaborate.

And on the subject of science if you have any video of science experiments or cool science lesson plans please leave a comment so I can try them with my classes.

Thanks

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Posted at 10:39AM Sep 06, 2008 by Concetta Gotlieb  | 

Sound Links and Lessons

Today I taught a class about sounds.  We used lots of different media including listening to podcasts, searching for animals sounds and blogging.

• WillowWeb sound podcast (easy to set-up, highly engaging, need good speakers for the classroom) Yr 3 students produced this high quality podcast which includes sound facts, a sound quiz and jokes.  The students thoroughly enjoyed listening to this podcast and engaged critically analysing the quality of the podcast and picking up ideas for their own recordings.
  
• American Zoo Animal Sounds page and Seaworld Animal Sounds page speakers required) students downloaded the sounds by right clicking on the picture of the animal and selecting Save Target As.  Student then created their own short 'sound bite' using these sounds.
  
• Wormbins Sounds blog post - as we did the debrief of the podcast we also wrote a short article on what we learnt.  I choose a couple of students to finish the post and publish.  It was amazing to see the hands shoot up when I mentioned that the learnings were to be published on our blog.
  

Here are some other sound resources from Edna

• Science of Sound
  

Tags: showme primary animals sounds science
Posted at 05:32PM Jun 06, 2008 by Concetta Gotlieb  |