Author: csamu

Youtube for schools

Youtube for schools is an engaging way to assist students learning in multiple content  areas. It also allows you, your class and your school to look at educational content, view the works of other school communities and upload and publish your own educational work which as a result, can help students in other schools.

Secondly, Youtube for schools is suitable for all age groups from K-12. It helps bring  a lesson to life in the sense that it offers opportunities for engagement, stimulates discussion and higher order thinking, allows you to learn from other teachers and students, to educate safely via the internet and most importantly- it’s free!

Rather than watching videos via youtube for schools to assist in general learning, you can set projects for your class to make their own educational video that may help students and teachers from other schools learn about a particular topic, skill or theme.

This resource could be used for both digital or design and technology subject areas depending on what your lesson or project task was and your intended learning outcomes. Possible tasks using this resource have the ability to involve a range of skills such as ; collecting;  analysing; representing data; designing; planning; creating; evaluating; reflecting; generate ideas; work collaboratively; and work independently. It also allows students to look at interactions and impacts things have; to investigate a topic or problem and explore a vast range of information safely; and to critique the work of another and consider solutions.

Curriculum links: You can use this resource for any age group ranging from years 1 to 7. For example:

Year 1: Technologies and society: People produce familiar products and services to meet personal and community needs (ACTDEK001) (Knowledge and understanding).

Year 2: Investigating and designing: Explore design to meet needs or opportunity (Process and production skills).

Year 5: Food specialisations: Food safety and hygiene practices (ACTDE022).

Year 7: Designing: design, develop, review and communicate design ideas, plans and process within a given context, using a range of techniques, appropriate technical terms and technology (Process and production skills).

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/schools

 

 

 

 

 

 

The secret life of things

The secret life of things is a great resource for educators to use when teaching sustainability.

There is a terrific video that suggests the perspectives of ‘things’ that we use on a daily basis in and around the home. It has engaging animations that portray the daily situations everyday items find themselves in such as clothing, vegetables and appliances to suit the learning level of students between years 1 and 4 (most suited for years 3 and 4 in regards to curriculum links).

On the website there is a video to support the other resources provided on the website in regards to teaching students about sustainability and what choices and actions can be made to assist in creating a sustainable environment.

Even though it is a teacher focussed resource , it also has resources available for students to use independently and further their learning on the topic of sustainability.

Curriculum Links:
This resource relates to the Design and Technologies area of the Technologies learning area within the Australian Curriculum. This resource links in nicely with the Technologies and society area of the curriculum for year 3 and 4: Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet (community needs, ACTDEK010).

Resource Link: The secret life of things

Categories; Design and Technologies; Generating, developing and evaluating ideas; Planning, poducing and evaluating designed solutions; Technology and society; Year 3-4