My PGCE Scitt Science Class of 09′s (almost) Organised Display of Diet Coke and Mentos…. The Science Bit can be found here. Comments disabled due to comment spam…

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A simple rocket made from a coke bottle, 1/4 filled with water and powered by a bicycle pump. (Can buy the kit from Hawkins Bazaar for about £12.99 here) Great for talking about Forces. Make sure you do it somewhere where there’s a lot of space

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I demonstrated some of these files with my PGCE students today and they wanted the links, so thought it was worth reposting here. I have a batch of my Smart Notebook files up on my Think Bank website for anyone who wants them to download. These are all Primary files, but you can also get [...]

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Smart today announced that their new SMART Notebook Math beta is now available to download. This is a plugin that adds additional capability to your existing Smart Notebook 10 installation. To quote the Smart press release: SMART Notebook Math extends the capabilities of SMART Notebook software with a dynamic set of math-specific tools and features, [...]

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One of the benefits of having an Interactive Whiteboard in the classroom (or even just a data projector) is the opportunity to display full colour high quality images instead of grainy acetates or posters. With a powerful image you can really add some “punch” to your lesson. Put images up while students are coming into [...]

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Google have recently rolled out a new twist on their search engine in their continued bid for world domination – Google Squared. Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter ‘square’ of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web and producing them in spreadsheet format. You can then add additional columns [...]

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Today I was delivering some training for Teaching Assistants. We wanted to give them the opportunity to try out some of the resources that are available on the Internet to use with students. I put together a list of sites that we played with during the day. I’ve reproduced the list below. A full list [...]

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Thanks to Twitter I found this useful video on YouTube  just now: Thanks to Scott Bellow for uploading those to YouTube, see more at EduTecher.

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This quote from Douglas Adams came up during a radio interview with Baroness Greenfield who has been currently wittering on about computers probably rotting our brains, albeit with a complete lack of evidence or research to back up her “chilling warnings”. It’s from “How to stop worrying and learn to love the Internet” I suppose [...]

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Just a quick link for a Saturday morning. Jigsaw Planet is a handy website that will create a jigsaw game from any photograph you upload to it. Once uploaded the jigsaw can be shared with others via a unique URL. You could link direct to it from your IWB flipchart. Could be useful for lesson [...]

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