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For my senior infant class I would do a lesson on identifying 2D shapes.
*This lesson may be over 2-3 days and broken up with some more whiteboard work/matching games (which could be created using AI)
Introduction: What shape am I? (5 minutes)
Use AI Chat GPT/voice assistant to ask: What is a circle (pupils answer first and then AI). Then show the shape to pupils. Continue with different shapes.
Use AI to help chose a song eg The Shapes Song. (5-10 minutes)
Use Chat GBT to then do some riddles. Get I have 4 sides and every side is the same. What am I? Children to then explore shapes and ask each other similar questions.
Main Activity:
AI Game or App Time (5-10 minutes)
Children use tablets or interactive board
Use an AI-powered shape activity:
Tap the correct shape when called
Drag shapes to match outlines
Color in shapes
Apps: Khan Academy Kids, Tiggly Shapes, or Starfall ShapesCreate pictures using real 2D shapes (5-10 minutes)
Use AI (Chat GBT) to help them create pictures. What can I make with a triangle and square?
Plenary (5 mins)
Use Twinkl AI to make a quiz and children to answer in small groups on whiteboard/drawing answer
Assessment
Observation of responses to AI prompts and shape games
App games (Khan academy)
Oral/written responses during quiz
Follow up/link: Pupils could use beebots to make shapes.Hi Michelle, I love this lesson plan. Currently I teach infants and despite most of them knowing this type of technology actually getting them to understand and respond to it is great.
Similar to other posters I think that Scratch is a fantastic tool and I would love to introduce Scratch Junior to my class. I would do this in conjunction with unplugged tasks that would not require the technology but would involve thinking computationally. Ideally this would follow a block of lessons involving beebots so children would have this prior knowledge.
Scratch Junior would be taught over a number of weeks. Intitally coding would be introduced about how it is telling a computer what you want it to do! Show children an example. Open it and go through the character, background, blocks, script and what the green flag means.
Show children the app and how to get a character and look at how this could be built upon with simple instructions. Ideally as I am a younger class this would be done with support teacher/Sna in the class to support. Allow children time to play around with it while each week introducing some additional commands while recaping on previous learning.
One of the possible restrictions to this is our apps on ipads and use of ipads can be limited. However all the resouces, lesson plans and support which are already created would support my teaching and delivery of the lessons over a period of approximately 6 weeks.
I likewise knew that Khan academy is a fantastic resource but thought this was just for Maths so it is fantastic to hear how much resources that this can offer teachers, parents and pupils alike.
Hey Laura I really think copilot image generator can be so motivating for pupils and linking it to literacy and novels is such a good idea. If pupils are engaged this will help their learning and outcomes and this is a great resource to aid it.
I found this module really eye opening and feel that I have learned lots of AI resources which I will be able to use in the future. I really liked magic school and the example of social stories (one tiny element of it). Currently I teach in infants and we often use social stories as a well or supporting our children with a familiar routine or a change that may be happening. I like how I can then modify it to personalise it further. I also really liked the reading coach resource. How it can tailor resources and support reading really is invaluable. However I also thought that speaker coach was so useful as public speaking can often be something which many dread or feel that they do not have the tools needed.
Diffit was another resource which I think is excellent (even the free content) and would definitely save time with literacy based subjects in the classroom. I loved the image creation and descriptive writing and the idea of flipping it and creating an image and trying to get the pupils to generate it. This really would motivate and engage older classes. I definitely would be using the copilot image creator even with my younger class and link it to familiar stories such as the little red hen or goldilocks. It may generate a different image and have them thinking differently about the story. Regarding assessment the Microsoft coach and reader can assess and give immediate feedback that would be not possible for a teacher to give to all pupils simultaneously. Furthermore many learners may react better to feedback from AI as it is more anonymous.
I also agree that immersive reader is a great resource which some of us are already using. I feel in time it will be used more widespread helping to improve pupils outcomes.
I found it interesting and reassuring to see that there was an AI national strategy as this is something that we must embrace and embed in our curriculum. I feel that it will work well with the STEM new curriculum and the digital learning strategy. This module was eye opening for me as I was aware and had used Chat GBT, but it was interesting to see Gemini and CoPilot and have effective they also were at planning lessons. Like others I found Minecraft Education excellent as so many pupils are already engaged with this. Although I didn’t use AI when I worked in the UK I used learning response systems which gave immediate feedback and worked similarly to websites such as century. I found century (along with Carnegie, squirrel and knewton) so interesting. These websites offer personalised learning journeys with support to improve outcomes. However these cost money and could not be used as a solution to improve learning but in conjunction with.
Similar to others I was shocked at the lengths at which China have gone to pioneer AI and ensure that students are listening, not yawning and on track. It is scary how some places can use AI to the detriment of some learners in their quest to be the best.
I signed up for this course as I am coming round to the potential which AI has and how important it is to embrace change and use it to support our teaching. Years ago I spent many an hour preparing modelling examples in English to show my class. AI now does this in seconds. However I like the idea of using maybe two ai platforms and then combining and adapting it for my own modelling. It would still be a matter of minutes but would be more personalised. I am beginning to realise some of the potential for AI for example even for school trips we could ask for list of farms or such places. Again I would just use this as a starting point and understand its limitations.
I have already used it for quizzes but understand that this is only a tiny part of what AI offers. Used ethically it can been used to generate ideas for example I want books and poems on space for younger children. As I become more confident and better at using the websites I hope it will save me time and support me to engage and motivate the children through its use.Hey Catherine I have had courses on how AI offers text to speech resources and vice versa which are invaluable to support pupils. I was not aware of ModMaths but I would be interested to find out more!
Hi Julie, I really like your ideas of linking it all together. Space is such a good topic to do this and there are so many resources for art, english, maths, science to have engaging cross curricular lessons. I think that the new maths curriculum lends itself more to this too (and the english curriculum).
With my class which I am taking from Junior Infants to Senior Infants we already did quite a few stories which were about the night sky without any emphasis on it. At the start of the year I did a lot of twinkl twinkl little star as it really settled the children and they enjoyed it! I also did Hey Diddle Diddle the nursery rhyme with them. I have always loved Van Gogh Starry Night so this is something that I do with every class I have had. However I realise now that I could link lots of these ideas together and I was not aware of Five Little Stars (regularly do 5 little ducks) which would be lovely to incorporate. I feel that I could definitely use more stories such as How to catch a star by Oliver Jeffers and Dr Seuss there is no place like space. These could be books which I could come back to and link with other space themed learning activities. I have taught space topic before to older students and they loved songs such as David Bowie Starman and the children really enjoyed this song as part of it. Having researched it further now I see there is a solar system poem to the theme of twink twinkl little star which I could incorporate into my learning.
I love the idea of building the bat boxes. Recently on a clear lovely day with low lighting in my brothers garden (in a town) we were fortunate to see many bats as it got darker. This is something I could also get my eco committee to look at.
Having worked with various councils previously I would love to work with the eco council and have a clear goal to raise the awareness of light pollution in the school. This goal would be alongside their other objectives.
I would organise walks initially for the eco council and then for other classes to record what species they can see around the local area. We would then look to record an evening walk (this may involve the parents’ association alongside the teacher) to record what creates can be seen. There would also be a focus on the lighting in the area and how much artificial light that there was. The eco council would analyse and reflect on the level of light and how that impacts on the lights. They would then educate their peers in the school and perhaps lead an assembly with updates/outcomes/discoveries. They could also have a biodiversity board in school with photos, findings, information on the species and findings! They could then look at potentially having more dark zones to help encourage biodiversity. They could also look at options such as sensor lights etc. They could put a report together for parents, students and the board of management at the end of the year.Currently I am teaching in Tallaght which used to be rural area and is now quite built up. I would try to teach my senior infant class about how light can impact on our environment.
This could be taught over a unit of lessons and the main outcomes would be for pupils to:
Understand what light and day is
Recognise light and dark around them
Understand and begin to identify natural/artificial light
Use vocabulary connected with topic such as bright/dark, night/day, artificial/natural.
We would connect it to our natural environment and go on a field trip to Sean Walsh Park.
Talk about how the light can impact on the animals. Look at the artificial lights can cause animals such as birds, bats and insect to seek new habitats.
Look at the street lights and discuss can this can reduce opportunities for stargazing and how this can impact on residents/children. In additional to a field trip I would help to teach through stories, games, songs and activities.
Children could consolidate learning in class with a night walk at home to look at the artificial lights. What stars can they see?
