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The Great Plant Hunt

There’s never been a better time to get involved in The Great Plant Hunt and enjoy fun and free educational activities in the classroom, online and outdoors. There are plenty of things to see and do now or you can plan the project into your spring and summer term activities. The project is clearly linked...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 10-28-2009
Autumnwatch - Ask the Experts

Flashmeeting (video Conferencing) between your school and Horton Kirby Environmental Education Centre Find out how nature is preparing for winter in this wonderful corner of North West Kent, five miles south of Dartford. Equipment needed: webcam, microphone and speakers Date: Friday 13 November 2009...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 10-13-2009
Watch the birdie!

Adding a webcam to a birdbox is becoming increasingly popular in schools. Last Sunday the Kestrel chicks hatch at Povey Farm. Now is a great time to watch them being fed and growing. http://www.lea.derbyshire.sch.uk/birdcam/kestrelcam/index.html Very cute, have a look at the project gallery kestrel cam...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-03-2009
Questionaut Revision Game

BBC's new revision game Questionaut , by Amanita Design , attempts to combine video games with sats questions. The goal of Questionaut is to track down your friend's hat, but your balloon can't reach that high until you answer enough questions correctly. On each of 8 levels, you must solve...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-06-2009
Kent Pupils do Science Experiment for Radio 2

Eagle class at Ash Cartwright & Kelsey Primary school helped Chris Evans out with a little problem. He wanted to know whether a cup of tea cooled quicked than a cup of coffee. With the help of their teacher, Chris Thomas, Eagle class set up an experiment to find out the answer. They then sent a photo...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-21-2009
Kent Eco-Schools Project

The Kent Eco-Schools Project programme links well to Geography and Science and also PSHE. The Kent Schools Action On Climate Change pack and pledge is available either through the www.kent.gov.uk/ecoschools page or on www.kent.gov.uk/climatechange under schools. In this there are specific suggestions...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-20-2009
Ask the Experts – Springwatch FlashMeeting event

Many schools in Kent are using Flashmeeting, a free and secure web conferencing application, to connect and share work wih other schools and also to ask questions to experts. FlashMeeting requires no specialist equipment just a basic web camera fitted to a laptop or PC that can access the Internet access...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-01-2009
Science Video Conferencing - Ask an expert

The Kent ICT has teamed up with Science Advisor, Andrew Berry , to run a Science/ICT project entitle 'Save the Gardens of Kent' . As part of the project, schools from around Kent have been taking part in 'Ask an Expert' where they have been using FlashMeeting to ask questions to experts...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-26-2009
Science Revision Website

Are you a Year 6 teacher - looking for a Science revision site. Have you visited www.compare4kids.co.uk/learn yet. This is a website that links to other useful websites to help with Science SATs revision to save teachers lots of time searching the web. Thank you Rachel for putting this together. I'm...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-13-2009
Video Lesson Starts - Teachers TV

Teachers TV is a great resource for finding videos to support teachers CPD and also to find video clips to use in the classroom with the pupils. If you register on the site (its free), you will be able to download the videos and then embedd them in IWB software, create multimodal powerpoints or play...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-03-2009

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