Resource: Online Metro Map Creator. One of our recent, most popular and inspirational responses online has been to us promoting a modified tweet via @JamieClark85: Which was inspired by this fantastic Classroom Display created by @LauraLolder: Creating your own version of a metro map is actually quite easy, and a great activity to support pupils learning about different aspects within subjects, or even as connection maps for revision.
Click image to view larger version Crudely, we created a map, using the online tool by Beno.org.uk (click here to view in a new window). Protagonize: Collaborative creative writing community - fiction, poetry, stories, and great reading! The Leblanc Process Literacy Worksheet. Diamond and Graphite differences. Better writing in Science: Point Evidence Explain. Problems with polymers Enquiry based lesson. Science GCSE Keyword Wordles. Literacy. Literacy games for science. Literacy in Science - Wall Display Posters. XKCD Plenarys & Homeworks; science comics. B7 Further Biology OCR 21st C, tarsia puzzles. Science Literacy Support Placemats. Telescopic Text. Developing Literacy in Science. So, first day of the summer holiday and I’m in a conference suite above a museum on a training course.
I’m a sucker for this sort of thing and anyway it’s about something that I think can help my students; Enhancing Literacy Skills in Science. This is an area I think can always be developed in my teaching and something that I have found a particular challenge this year, as I feel that the level of general literacy of my students has not been great and I haven’t been able to use the methods I usually employ which have worked in other parts of the country as effectively as I wanted. Literacy also got a few mentions in the recent Ofsted report of my college where it was noted: “In too many lessons teachers do not challenge students sufficiently to provide fuller answers, justify their ideas and use appropriate subject terminology.