Hologram Heads!
Students thoroughly engage with the skills and potential of using technology when presenting their work to an audience. Year 4 students integrated technology into...
Christmas Catapult Games
The girls enjoyed a creative and educational activity of making catapults with paddle pop sticks and designing Christmas games. They explored physics, engineering, and...
Interactive Research with Makey Makey
Giving our year 6 students the opportunity to discover and play with Makey Makey enabled us to address the DT curriculum descriptors:
Identify and explore...
STEM Ideas for Years 5 & 6
Children learn through play and discovery. Providing curious and interesting activities across the curriculum gives students opportunities to share their understanding and build on...
Cutebot
As the name suggestions this is a very ‘cute’ little robot which I was invited by Elecfreaks to try with our girls. As it...
Technology in Today’s Classroom to Inspire Ideas
When your like-minded colleague and friend, Anne Weaver, suggests a PD workshop on a Saturday morning in the holidays of course you say YES!...
Winches and Conveyor Belt Stories
This activity followed on from the skills mastered in ‘Engineering with Winches and Pulleys’
The girls viewed different types of conveyor belts and how they...
3D Printing and HTML & CSS
Students observed the structures in their immediate environment, both natural and man-made. Using Splat3D the students experimented drawing 3D shapes and then building on...
Inspiring Young Students to Create with Technology.
This post is in preparation for a session I’m running at this year’s National Education Summit in Brisbane, 15 & 16 May. It is...
Let’s Talk Technology in the Classroom!
The Australian Curriculum: Technologies describes two distinct but related subjects:
Design and Technologies, in which students use design thinking and technologies to generate and produce...