Teaching+examples

Teaching Examples
**My Map Book** – By Sarah Fanelli ** Year level ** K-2 **Curriculum Links**
 * ELA 21**. The student understands about Australia and Australians
 * 21.EC.10** Recognise Australia's shape (e.g. in images and on maps) and some of its places (e.g. relevant to students' experiences or classroom focus).



This book contains twelve detailed and engaging maps such as ‘Map of my day’ and ‘Map of my dog’. Each spread of this picture book contains a full-coloured map that can be used to illustrate the uses of, and ease with which maps can be created to young learners. One of the best features of this book is that the maps are set in the context of a student’s everyday life helping to teach the concepts of geography, location, relative location and spatial association from the student’s perspective out. This book could be used to introduce the idea of and some features of maps. Could also be used as some examples to demonstrate what a map might look like so that students can create there own with an idea of what can be created.

Fanelli, S. (2006). //My Map Book.// London: Walker Books LTD.
 * References**

ACT Department of Education and Training. (2007). //Every Chance to Learn, Curriculum Framework for ACT schools, Preschool to year 10.//Canberra ACT: ACT Department of Education and Training.

I used YouTube in my assignment because I thought it would be a good opportunity to get some practice before I start teaching. I thought that this would be an excellent way of introducing some ideas or subjects that would completely engage students. I think students would really appreciate and enjoy seeing their teacher in a different light.
 * Video - YouTube

I thought that the lay out of my assignment could possible be used to present units of work to students. I would need to think about this more to make it a viable option. However I could see how it could be adapted to the Inquiry Learning approach. Videos can be used to engage and deliver explicit teaching while different arms of the spicynode could lead to information. Each arm could focus on supporting each of Gardeners intelligences and a Wiki for each student could be created for them to record their learning which they will then be able to share with each other. The Teacher could be in the room to guide/clarify learning.
 * The lay out of my assignment

As much as I don't like that it has been created by a large corporation I can't get over how good of a resource Coinland is. I believe that it is a completely engaging resource that promotes the development of sound financial literacy skills and the importance of this in the home environment. It does this by sending emails to parents about their child's progress.
 * Interactive virtual environments

[|www.coinland.com.au]

Spicynodes A great open source resource for students to represent their leaning in a graphic organiser. They also look cool and work well. A peer also put up a posting about bubbl.us, I found this really useful as a brainstorming activity. I think that Spicynodes are not quick enough to work with to ensure effective brainstorming. ** **

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[|www.spicynodes.org]