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Grade 9 'Space'
Grade 9 'Space'
Lesson Two: The Big Bang
Groups of students read creation myths from a variety of cultural backgrounds, which I had loaned from the local library, and then rehearsed and acted out a story for the class.
Taking inspiration from these stories and the science of the Big Bang that they learned during the lesson, the students wrote their own scientific creation narratives on Book Creator.
Lesson Four: The Life Cycle of Stars
Students worked in pairs to read an account of the life cycle of a star and produce graphic notes to summarise what they had read.
Differentiation was achieved by offering students a choice of medium through which they produced their graphic notes, and by careful selection of pairs to ensure supportive working relationships.
Lesson Seven: The Planets
A circus of activities was provided to students to deepen their knowledge of the planets of our solar system.
The circus activities gave the students enough subject knowledge to build a website to advertise holidays on three planets or moons within the solar system.
The activities included:
VR headsets for a virtual-reality tour of the solar system
An augmented-reality model of the solar system, allowing them to view and interact with the models in their own space.
A 3D tour of the solar system
At the end of the lesson, students self-assessed their knowledge of the planets by giving an AI image generator a detailed description of the planet and continually improving the prompt to get the image closer and closer to a real image.
Grade 10 'life at the zoo'
Grade 10 'life at the zoo'
A collaboration with educators and scientists at London Zoo, this unit has students learn ecological concepts in school before making biweekly visits to the zoo to learn applied examples through specific case study species
Lesson One: Partula snails
Students learn about critically-endangered partula snails as an example of populations within a community and ecosystem.
They then have a behind-the-scenes tour of their breeding facility at the zoo, where they are able to ask questions to one of the people who is directly responsible for keeping whole species alive.
Lesson Three: Humboldt Penguins
A murder mystery activity asks students to solve the murder of a Humboldt penguin by identifying its whereabouts and known associates (i.e. it's niche). This follows on from an activity in the zoo in which students work with a ZSL educator to produce an ethogram (behaviour record) through observation of the penguins.
The collaboration on this project resulted in me being shortlisted for the Cambridge Dedicated Teacher Award.
It was also featured by Zoological Society of London educators at their annual conference as an example of excellent collaboration with a member of their education access scheme.
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