Last Friday all students at CPS were introduced to virtual world technology. Mrs Booth has been using a version the program Sim-on-a-Stick (a stand alone virtual world) which she has modified for her primary students over the past year at Coffs Harbour Public School and the students have been achieving great success in their units of work. Virtual world technology is very demanding and highly mathematical but it is also very creative, encouraging higher order and problematic thinking skills. Over the next four weeks students will be using this technology in various ways. This Friday year 5 and 6 students will be attempting to create heptagons! They all said they love maths 🙂 The younger grades will be using the building tools to manipulate simple 3D shapes such as cubes, cylinders and spheres…we might even attempt to create the planet Earth or the sun. For more information on virtual world technology or to see what the Coffs students have been working on visit the Coffs Harbour Public School Blog
Mrs Booth
Fabulous work. Weren’t we lucky to get Mrs Booth into our school. I can hear the excitement in your voices. I can’t wait to see what you come up with tomorrow.