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
Mrs Booth has combined the science and HSIE themes for this term into an integrated virtual project. All students are looking at the use of water for farming and packaging. Each student has selected a particular type of farm and is recreating a 3D representation of it using Sim-on-a-Stick or concrete materials. They must include… Read more Virtual World Science/HSIE Projects
On Friday students continued to finalise their virtual builds and this week will be taking snapshots in-world to place on their individual blog information reports. We also had some pre-service primary education students visit from Southern Cross University as they wanted to see how we are using virtual world technology in the classroom. Finally after… Read more What we did on Friday…
The student virtual builds are looking fantastic and all students are working on their information reports to be published on their individual student blogs. Both Lachlan and Leon are sharing their ideas as they develop skills using sim-on-a-stick. Mrs Booth was amazed with the quality of their artefacts. Lachlan is continuing on Sydney Harbour Bridge… Read more Our Australian Heritage Virtual Projects
Thursday morning all the students, Mrs Booth and Principal, Mrs Cavanagh, arrived at our school before 7am. It was so early for Mrs Booth that she drove past the Bonville highway turnoff and had a mini panic attack thinking “please let there be another turn-off soon!” Luckily there was and she was able to get to the… Read more Mississippi Mystery Skype
Here are some images from our HSIE project that we were working on this morning. Next Friday Luke and Wakjira from Coffs Harbour Public School are coming to our school to show us some of their excellent building skills (Luke built the ship in the image above). It was great to see everyone on task… Read more Virtual HSIE Projects
Today the students all managed to do some programming and changed their opening message for their virtual world to Crossmaglen Public School. The students also focussed on their avatars and changing the clothing to emulate early Australian attire which was much more modest and sombre than today’s fashion. Students made stockings, vests, shirts, jackets, socks, shoes and… Read more Being Australian virtual project: Week 2
Students today were introduced to their 10 week virtual learning project connected to the COGs G multi-stage unit ‘Our Australian Heritage’ Connection focus for each stage: ES1/S1: understanding that cultural activities, objects, songs, dances and stories express beliefs, values and a connection to place and people. S2: exploring the impact of British colonisation and how… Read more Our Australian Heritage Virtual Learning Project