Students finished the Epic Citadel English/Science project this week and many parents and family members came to view their work during the presentation afternoon. The students published their character descriptions in the Nova Citadel library. For information about this project go to this earlier post: Epic Citadel/MinecraftEdu. All the students have loved this project and being… Read more Nova Citadel MinecraftEdu English Science Project
The Marshmallow Challenge is a remarkably fun and instructive design exercise that encourages teams to experience simple but profound lessons in collaboration, innovation and creativity. The task is simple: in 18 minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 2o sticks of spaghetti, one metre of tape, one metre of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow… Read more The Marshmallow Challenge
Students will document and design a new city using MinecraftEdu. Working through the design process they will create e-portfolios, using their own devices, to record their learning journey. Students will also construct and edit texts based on their character roles, experiences and learning inspired by the virtual world of Epic Citadel. These will be published… Read more Epic Citadel/MinecraftEdu/BYOD English and Science Unit
Students were introduced to the wonderful award winning book Fox by Margaret Wild and illustrated by Ron Brooks. This book is used in English classes from the early stages right up to year 12 and the content is very thought provoking. After an initial discussion critically examining the cover – colours, font, media that was… Read more Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks
Each Friday for the rest of term 4 students will be having ukulele lessons. These lessons are provided by a local nursing home and students were also given their very own ukuleles. What a lucky group of students! 🙂 Mrs Booth
Crossmaglen Public School was awarded acknowledgement as a Waterwise School by Coffs Harbour Mayor Denise Knight. A morning tea was held and then students presented a slide show on what it meant to be a Waterwise School. Afterwards they showed the Mayor their water/farming virtual world projects that they have been working on every Friday for… Read more Waterwise and Water/Farming Projects Presentation
Olivia and Charlie have been working on a project based around dairy farming and water usage. They looked at what is involved in dairy farming and where water is used. They studied and then built the water cycle, dairy and supermarket dairy section and created a diorama display. Olivia made a video last week where… Read more Grade 1 and 2 Dairy Project
Hi this is Lachlan and Vikram, and we both live on farms. Lachlan’s farm is a beef cattle farm and Vikram has a blueberry farm. On Thursday, the 22th of August, we went to AgQuip, which is Australia’s largest agricultural field event, in Tamworth. We left at 4.00 am and Lachlan vomited in the car, so he had to change into Vikram’s… Read more AgQuip 2013