Category: Health and Wellbeing

Making Memes and Animated Gifs for Learning

Memes and animated gifs abound in social media. You don’t have to look too long online to see these appear, often being shared and shared by many people via their social media accounts, or prominent on webpages or blogposts to draw in the reader to find out more about a story or data. Having learners …

Getting Going with GoNoodle

GoNoodle is a free online resource bank of action videos and associated activities to support and encourage learners to get active while helping engage with information being learned in the classroom (or anywhere) or prepare for a change of activity, or even set the scene for reflective thinking! There is a GoNoodle blog which is full of ideas to …

Live streaming egg hatching from the classroom

Several times requests come in from teachers looking to share live video online of chick eggs hatching in their classroom, so that children can watch whenever they wish the progress of hatching chicks. This contributes to understanding of life processes as part of the curriculum in science, and health & wellbeing. Organisations such as Living Eggs …

Winning Words – Interactive Poetry Generators

Winning Words Interactive Poetry Generator is a suite of interactive tools to create poems in a choice of genre, with an associated image. The inspiration for the poems which can be created by users in this suite of tools is provided by words and images associated with the Olympic and Paralympic Games. However the resource and asociated ideas …

Dance, Dance, Dance in Class! Incorporating games-based learning to encourage pupil physical activity

By using dancemat software engaging pupils in physical activity in the classroom can incorporate aspects of games-based learning along with the engaging visual and aural drivers of dancemat activity using the free Stepmania software with a dance mat. With just one dancemat and a connected computer (especially if the dancemat on-screen activity can also be …

Emergency! Are You Ready?

Emergencies happen when we least expect them. Schools will often teach about natural disasters as part of study in history or geography, and prepare pupils for situations which may arise in their lives. The following are resources which help support teachers to build resilience in pupils to deal with an emergency situation they may face …

Primary Games for Learning Gains

Primary Games Arena is a site aimed specifically at pupils in primary schools and comprises free online games for all ages and stages, as well as all areas of the curriculum. There is a huge selection of high-quality games which have been identified to individually address the needs of the curriculum first and foremost to address the learning required for …