{"id":19975,"date":"2026-05-08T13:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/?p=19975"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:03:03","slug":"yes-we-can-use-play-doh-in-a-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2026\/05\/08\/yes-we-can-use-play-doh-in-a-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, We CAN Use Play-Doh in a High School&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"longdesc-return-19976\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool?longdesc=19976&#038;referrer=19975\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2026\/05\/08130155\/2026-05-08-Geography-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yes, We CAN Use Play-Doh in a High School...\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2026\/05\/08130155\/2026-05-08-Geography-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2026\/05\/08130155\/2026-05-08-Geography-4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2026\/05\/08130155\/2026-05-08-Geography-4-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today our S3 Geographers were consolidating their prior learning before timetable change, with a healthy touch of competition.  They were focussing on who could explain the formation of a pyramidal peak or u-shaped valley the best between different groups, something we last covered towards the start of S3.<\/p>\n<p>Groups had the choice of play-doh to help bring their physical features to life and demonstrate the changes which take place during glaciation, alongside different coloured pens helped highlight each team members contributions to their joint answer. <\/p>\n<p>The next step is to decide the winning answers however all groups have impressed with their recall and teamwork skills!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19975 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2026\/05\/08\/yes-we-can-use-play-doh-in-a-high-school\/2026-05-08-geography-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2026\/05\/08130155\/2026-05-08-Geography-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Yes, We CAN Use Play-Doh in a High School...\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2026\/05\/08\/yes-we-can-use-play-doh-in-a-high-school\/2026-05-08-geography-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2026\/05\/08130158\/2026-05-08-Geography-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Yes, We CAN Use Play-Doh in a High School...\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2026\/05\/08\/yes-we-can-use-play-doh-in-a-high-school\/2026-05-08-geography-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2026\/05\/08130201\/2026-05-08-Geography-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Yes, We CAN Use Play-Doh in a High School...\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2026\/05\/08\/yes-we-can-use-play-doh-in-a-high-school\/2026-05-08-geography-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2026\/05\/08130205\/2026-05-08-Geography-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Yes, We CAN Use Play-Doh in a High School...\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today our S3 Geographers were consolidating their prior learning before timetable change, with a healthy touch of competition. They were focussing on who could explain the formation of a pyramidal peak or u-shaped valley the best between different groups, something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/2026\/05\/08\/yes-we-can-use-play-doh-in-a-high-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10574,"featured_media":19976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,72,54,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025-2026","category-latest-news","category-social-sciences","category-summer-term-2025-2026"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/uploads\/sites\/12475\/2026\/05\/08130155\/2026-05-08-Geography-4-rotated.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19980,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions\/19980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/kirkcaldyhighschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}