Section 5
Case Study 2
The
second case study involves testing out some new ideas with children in order to
shift Handling Information away from maths based tasks and give children more
opportunities in which to develop their I.C.T. capability.
The
aim of this exercise is to use the case study to try to motivate staff and give
them confidence to incorporate Handling Information into more of the school
curriculum.
In
order to make this case study as practical as possible I decided to focus on Key
Stage 2 classes and make up interesting tasks based the on their current Science
Topic. Groups of children were
chosen from each class and each group were given a task for them to investigate
by themselves. The class teachers
were briefed on the tasks that the children were asked to complete.
Earlier,
a short meeting with staff involved gave
full support to the activities.
Year
3 / 4
Do we eat healthy food in our class?
Year
4 / 5
Do people with white socks like “The Spice Girls?”
Year
5 / 6
Investigate the planets in our Solar System using a pre-
made
CD ROM. Find the size of each planet and it’s distance from the sun.
Set up your own database of the planets and display graphs showing your
results.
During
the day the children worked in their own classrooms with help from classroom
teachers. My role was to float
between classes to observe, work with the children and advise classroom teachers
in the activities.
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