ASSIGNMENT
Choose one of the activities or activity sets outlined in this module:
Online resources and tools
How would you use the activity in your classroom? Or What further steps might you take towards a STEM focused SSE?
Post a reflective piece (150 words min) to the forum as a reply to this post. You may include digital records of the activities.
Also, please respond to one other participant’s post.
In my school setting we use a lot of online resources and tools, especially as a majority of our lessons are beside. It’s great to have a toolkit on the ipad that can be easily transported. I use Mystery Science https://mysteryscience.com/ and SFI Declan Holmes youtube channel regularly.
I had not heard of Marvin and Milo before this course. I especially like that a lot of their activities are 15 minutes (this is a perfect amount of time for our students who can often get quite fatigued in hospital/school).
I like how visually appealing the Marvin and Milo comic strips are too, they are bright, engaging and the visual pictures of the characters are very appealing.
It would be nice to create grab and go type activity boxes for SSE. In the past we created grab and go Primary Science bags which were so handy and useful. It would nice to re create these boxes and to laminate the Marvin and Milo comic strip along with the instructions for the teacher or in a multiclass setting we could have the older child reading the instructions and collaboratively working with the younger child.
You could extend the lesson by having the children creating their own comin strip of their finding/ results using Canva or other comic strip generator websites