What’s this all about? In the Creative Writing workshop on Albany OLP, students worked collaboratively to produce podcast episodes. The topic: news reports on the mundane and silly things that happen on camp!
Year 6W
Year 6M
What’s this all about? In the Creative Writing workshop on Albany OLP, students worked collaboratively to produce podcast episodes. The topic: news reports on the mundane and silly things that happen on camp!
We are learning to use digital technologies in finding solutions for problems connected with disasters.
https://www.redcross.org.au/prepare
and
http://education.abc.net.au/newsandarticles/blog/-/b/3060819/curious-kids-why-do-we-have-droughts
http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/2163724/life-on-our-ever-changing-creek
http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/3353989/flood-prevention-in-tokyo
As a project for Science Week, we are creating a news podcast: STEM RADIO!
We are aiming to produce quality news items which are about the latest exciting developments in our world. Based on STEM topics, we hope to inform our audience how science is used to solve problems and create solutions in our world. In particular, we want to tell our audience which science was involved – the basic scientific thinking and science disciplines behind the story.
Here’s an example podcast segment.
Work with a partner. Choose an article from the list. Create a draft of your podcast script. Include:
Are there any direct quotes in the article you have read? You may use these to create an authentic ‘voice’ in your script. You may include a fictitious quote or interview in your podcast if it helps to highlight the science!
Here’s a list of suitable articles: stem radio articles for 6M
Combine the power of emoji with graffiti to create speech bubbles on these images. Stick to the theme: migration.
Choose an image from this slide show:
TIP: Insert your chosen image into a Word document. Add a ‘callout’ shape. type your emojis inside the callout shape – no more than 5 emoji per shape. Here’s my example:
Upload your file into the Activity space in Seesaw.
https://www.evernote.com/l/AAYU5oe6JA5OB5HCvE14ksSn_0m1yPCuzn4/
https://blogs.imf.org/2019/04/26/falling-costs-make-wind-solar-more-affordable/
https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/News/cure-drawbacks-li-ion-batteries
https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/
https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/wave-energy/10526972
NUCLEAR ENERGY
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180907110524.htm
AUSTRALIAN ENERGY SOURCES ( GOOD FOR FOSSIL FUELS)
https://www.energy.gov.au/government-priorities/energy-supply
Create a BOYS – BUT OR YET SO – sentence.
TOPICS: Netflix, emojis, boy bands, tomato sauce, nori rolls, sunflowers, basketball, pen licence.
Based on the Unicode rules, here are our rules for judging our emojis:
Click on this link to find out the rules for submitting an emoji to Unicode.
Rudolph and his friend Prancer have the job of delivering all the Christmas presents. Can they do it?
Design your journey for the reindeers. They must make the journey without the alarm sounding. The journey must be at least 10 metres – the longer or more difficult the better.
MODELLED WORD: RECIPE
TODAY’S WORD: COSMIC
Work with a partner. Leave a blog comment using today’s word in these different ways: