Mrs Champion has been teaching the students all about water for science and Mrs Peart has been teaching the students all about goods and services through the HSIE unit Who will buy? . Mrs Booth has mashed them together to create a project using Sim-on-a-Stick, our virtual world on a USB . Grade 1 and 2 are… Read more Dairy Excursion
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
Hover over the image below and click on the icons to read about the work we did on the water cycle this morning. We were still getting all the computers running with Sim-on-a-Stick so some students will be starting their building projects next Friday. They still picked up some great ideas from viewing other students… Read more The Water Cycle using Sim-on-a-Stick
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
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
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… Read more Crossie kids discover Sim-on-a-Stick!