Teaching other lessons with technology
Science. Year 9. Illegal drugs. Double lesson: 1hr 20 mins. 1 week to prepare. Read through text book material. Collate digital resources onto IWB flipchart (http://search.creativecommons.org). Think of hooks: the drugs don’t work, they just make it worse (The Verve, Urban Hymns 1997). Learning objectives (mine): 1. Understand what illegal drugs are 2. To know what illegal drugs exist 3. To understand addiction in relation to illegal drugs 4. To be able to visually identify an illegal drug; it’s characteristics and it’s effects Technology: ActiVote to gather opinion in the room ActivSlate to enable pupils to ask questions and do match-up work on the board Quiz and game from http://drugsinfo.org (ActivSlate again) Wordle of keywords Moodle course collating classroom and … Continue reading