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Unit 6 Activity 8 - Giving instructions

In section B I demonstrated how I'd used templates of coins to develop matching skills and a deeper knowledge and understanding of coins. (I used ORAC A3 coin overlays - using the children's voices for recording.) It is necessary to bear in mind that these young people are 14+, needless to say they have been handling and matching coins for quite a few years. The challenge as always is to do the same thing in a different way.

My youngsters have been working on a small 6-week topic called MESSAGES. Pupils had to "discover" a number of ways that messages could be sent. We did the usual tape, phone, fax, mobile, video recorder, Big Mac communicator and explored the ORAC. Some of our students suggested e-mail and web cameras as a means of sending messages.

To reinforce the messages topic I decided to get my wife to introduce the lesson with a video clip. This video provided a very exciting start to the lesson. (See attached file below.)

To reinforce the messages topic I decided to get my wife to introduce the lesson with a video clip. This video provided a very exciting start to the lesson. (See attached file below.)

As a culmination and plenary I got my own daughters to record some sequences of coins as a sound wave and pupils had to memorise the sequence and repeat it on the table with real coins.

This added another dimension to the lesson. Pupils had to access Outlook Express and then find the file I had sent to school.

My next lesson will involve pupils recording messages on the computer with their friends having to remember them and play them back using the ORAC - seen in photo 2.

Download a ZIP file containing introductory video clip and audio files (442 k).

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