They have been working on games where they could present anything that they had been learning in maths and they were using Google Slides to make their multi choice games.
Mrs Anderson did the first one to give them the idea.
Students are allowed to read their prepared notes that are part of a blog post that they have written about the process.Not only is there the maths skills used in the game, there are animated gifs used as part of it.
They have a rate your game link to get feedback from each other.
The students go up in pairs for support and confidence.
There was a mix of skills here in one activity :-
- Choice of language
- Choice of what Maths skill they wanted to focus on
- Coding, using Google slides to control multiple choice answers
- Peer feedback
- Graphics skills thinking about clarity of font choices and colours used to make their game easy to use.
- Explanation writing in their blogs
- Verbal presentation skills
Here are some screen shots of one of the games from today.
Here is Aung Naing's blog post to see the whole game
What can I use from this with my Year 13 inquiry group who are doing verbal presentations of their design work?
- Let them work together - in the planning of what they are going to say and when they get up to say it.
- Put their work up as a presentation so they are not trying to balance their sketch books or show drawings in a sketchbook to a big group
- Choice of what to present and how to present it.
- Play to their strengths - use skills from other subjects and get input from those subject teachers to help them.
As always it was great to have you join us in LS2 Karen. I really enjoyed reading this post as I get to see what happened through someone else's eyes. They did such a great job creating and presenting their maths games and I know they loved having you there to see their presentations.
ReplyDeleteThanks Robyn. I always learn so much when I come and visit your class.
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