For augmented reality, we wanted that our students search information about the muscles and bones and then explain it with augmented reality thanks to the app ChromVille Science.
These are the instructions of the Augmented reality activity:
This is the poster with the information of the activity.
Here is an example of how it works:
And these are the standards that this activity achieves:
5.1 Realiza un proyecto, trabajando de forma individual o en equipo y presenta un informe, utilizando soporte papel o digital, recogiendo información de diferentes fuentes (directas, libros, Internet), con diferentes medios y comunicando de forma oral la experiencia realizada, apoyándose en imágenes y textos escritos.
1.1 Identifica y localiza los principales órganos implicados en la realización de las funciones vitales del cuerpo humano: Nutrición (aparatos respiratorio, digestivo, circulatorio y excretor), Reproducción (aparato reproductor), Relación (órganos de los sentidos, sistema nervioso, aparato locomotor).
2.1 Identifica las principales características de los (aparatos respiratorio, digestivo, locomotor, circulatorio y excretor) y explica las principales funciones.
4.1. Usa medios tecnológicos en los diferentes trabajos que realiza.
For improving this activity, we have thought about asking the students to do a presentation in groups of 5 people in which they have to present some ideas to improve the health of the muscles and the bones. Each group would have different topics in order to not present everybody the same. For example, one group could do “How to take care of our teeth?”, another group “How to maintain our heart healthy?”, etc.
For the Stop Motion activity we created an activity with the topic “Photosynthesis”.
Here you can see an example of how would be:
Here is the instructions of this activity:
This is the poster of the Stop Motion activity with its information.
This activity achieves these standards of Natural Sciences:
1.2. Identifica las principales características y funciones de los seres vivos.
2.1 Manifiesta autonomía en la planificación y ejecución de acciones y tareas y tiene iniciativa en la toma de decisiones.
2.5. Explica la importancia de la fotosíntesis para la vida en la Tierra.
3.1 Utiliza, de manera adecuada, el vocabulario correspondiente a cada uno de los bloques de contenidos.
3.2 Expone oralmente de forma clara y ordenada contenidos relacionados con el área.
For improving this activity, a teacher suggested us to add an additional task as asking the children inverted questions such as “What happen if I leave a plant 2 weeks under shadow?” and to include an additional activity in which the children have to take care of their own plant and see how it grows.
And here is all of the cards, 6 pieces for each gamer and the dice.
The mathematics questions that are written in the cards are here (it has three different difficulty scales)
Easy
1. Change this numbers from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals and vice versa. a) MMCCXXII b) 2492
2. Change this numbers from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals and vice versa. a) DCCCLXXXVIII b) 742
3. Change this numbers from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals and vice versa. a) MMMDCCLXXXIV b) 857
4. Change this numbers from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals and vice versa. a) CMXX b) 3529
5. Do this operation and change the results from Arabic Numerals to Arabic numerals. 120 + 18
6. Do this operation and change the results from Arabic Numerals to Arabic numerals. 354 + 298
7. Do this operation and change the results from Arabic Numerals to Arabic numerals. 345 – 256
8. Do this operation and change the results from Arabic Numerals to Arabic numerals. 562 – 209
9. Do this operation changing from Roman Numerals to Arabic numerals. CIV + LXVI
10. Do this operation changing from Roman Numerals to Arabic numerals. DCX – DCV
11. Do these mental calculations. a) 37 + 52 b) 53 – 27
12. Do these mental calculations. a) 12 x 8 b) 34 + 19
13. Do these mental calculations. a) 75 / 5 b) 13 – 7’5
14. Do these mental calculations. a) 67 – 38 b) 2 x 50
15. Complete this simple operation. 34´5 x 56
16. Complete this simple operation. 23´8 x 7´8
17. Complete these simple operation. a) 4856236 + 6655540 b) 4861846 – 4528948
18. Complete these simple operation. a) 7857858 + 9649355 b) 5947529 – 3656635
19. Complete this simple operation. 34 / 7
20. Complete this simple operation. 98 / 9
Medium
1. Do these mental calculations. a) 134’54 + 845’6 b) 642’3 – 357’8
2. Do these mental calculations. a) 7895 + 452 b) 523’65 – 396’5
3. Do these mental calculations. a) 4643 + 1582 b) 828’96 – 174’7
4. Do these mental calculations. a) 45 x 3’5 b) 25 / 2’5
5. Do these mental calculations. a) 13’3 x 7’8 b) 42 / 1’75
6. Do these mental calculations. a) 23’1 x 6’2 b) 12 / 0’7
7. Do these mental calculations. a) 11’1 x 7’01 b) 13 / 4’5
8. Do this complex operation. 12 x (78 + 91)
9. Do this complex operation. 82 – 2 x (3 + 9)
10. Do this complex operation. 43 + 25 x 4 – 29
11. Do this complex operation. 82 + 14 + 36 – 29 x 3
12. Do this complex operation. 98 – (2 + 65 + 18)
13. Do this complex operation. 25 / (6 + 8 + 2 – 11)
14. Do this complex operation. 9 x (8 + 9 + 6 – 12 – 3)
15. Do this complex operation. (10 x 100) x 10 – 5 / 1000
16. Do this complex operation. 7 x 65 – (59 x 2)
17. Do this complex operation. 34 + 54 x (29 – 14)
18. Juan is walking in the city. There is a flower´s shop with 32 daisies and 20 roses. Juan bought 3 daisies and 5 roses. How many flowers will be left in the flower’s shop?
19. Claudia went shopping because she won the lottery. She spent 37€ in shoes, and apart from that, she bought some earphones. If she spent 76€ in total, ¿how much does earphones cost?
20. This year, the pollution we created was reduced an eighth from the previous year. If the previous year we produced 6500 kg of dust and pollution, how much has been produced this year?
21. Carolina was in maths class, when the teacher went out from the class, telling the children not to stand up and make noise. Carolina looked at her hands and she saw that she has 10 fingers. Knowing that all her classmates have 10 fingers too, how many fingers are in total in the class?
22. Gonzalo has in his mobile phone 852 songs. All these songs were deleted by the mobile phone, so he started downloading again. He just remembered 564 songs. How many songs did Gonzalo forget?
23. Aurora ran for 20 km in an hour. Ana did the same path than Aurora, but by bike, and she lasts 3 times less. How much did Ana last?
Difficult
1. Javi is an excellent cooker. María went to his cake shop every week and she bought 30 cookies. María started a diet, and started reducing buying 2 cookies less per week. When will María stop eating Javi’s cookies?
2. Linda went every week to the library with her daughter. Each week, her daughter read 2 books and a half. When the school year ended, she had read 30 books. How many weeks did the school year had?
3. Noelia and Marilia faced each other in a TV show. To know who would win, the TV viewers should vote. Marilia won with 430.254 votes (50’2%). How many votes did Noelia get?
4. Teresa had seven classes. Each class had 26 students. She asked her students to do 7 exercises for the following day, and all the students brought them done. Among all the students, how many exercises have been done?
5. Prudencio collected stickers. He had his 1000 sticker when he was 254 collecting them. how many stickers did Prudencio get per day?
6. Pedro runs everyday 15 km, but one day he got injured, so he couldn’t run. When he started running again, he could do just 8 km, but afterwards, he run 400 meters more per day. How many days will Pedro need to run the same he ran before?
7. Portugal’s population is 10’3 millions of people. If each year 800.000 people go out from the country and nobody go to Portugal, how much time will be needed in order to see Portugal empty?
8. Ana Belén sang 23 songs in each concert. For a whole year, she did 35 concerts. In 7 of them, she sang 3 more songs from her new álbum. How many songs did she sing in the whole year?
9. Pepe went to the supermarket and bought 23 apples, thinking that his mother wouldn’t do so. When he arrived home, he saw that his mother bought apples too. When Pepe saw the apples her mother bought, he realized that he bought three times and a half more apples than his mother. How many apples did his mother bought?
10. Do this complex operation. 894.623 / 508
11. Do this complex operation. 976.517 / 981
12. Do this complex operation. 7.227.985 x 8.754
13. Do this complex operation. 52.889 x (589 + 425)
14. Do this complex operation. 96.857 / (456 – 783)
15. Do this complex operation. 12 x (3 x 5 – 9) + 159
16. Do this complex operation. 789 + (85 x 4) – 536
17. Do this complex operation. 23.456 x 78.912
And here are the answers to these questions:
Easy
1. A) 2222 B) MMCDXCII
2. A) 888 B) DCCXLII
3. A) 3784 B) DCCCLVII
4. A) 920 B) MMMDXXIX
5. 138/CXXXVIII
6. 652/DCLII
7. 89/LXXXIX
8. 353/CCCLIII
9. 104+66=170
10. 610-605=5
11. A) 89 B)26
12. A) 96 B)53
13. A) 15 B) 5’5
14. A) 29 B)100
15. 1932
16. 185’64
17. A) 11.511.776 B) 332.898
18. A) 17.507.213 B) 2.290.894
19. 4’8571
20. 10’888
Medium
1. A) 980’14 B) 284’5
2. A) 8347 B) 127’15
3. A) 6225 B) 654’26
4. A) 157’5 B) 10
5. A) 103’74 B) 24
6. A) 143’22 B) 17’1429
7. A) 77’8811 B) 2’8888…
8. 2028
9. 58
10. 114
11. 45
12. 13
13. 5
14. 72
15. 9.999’995
16. 337
17. 844
18. 44 flowers in total
19. 39€ is the cost of the headphones
20. 5687’5kg
21. 240 fingers in total
22. He has forgotten 288 songs
23. Ana has done the 20 km in 20’
Difficult
1. 15 weeks for not eating more cookies
2. The school year has got 12 weeks
3. Noelia has got 426825’68 votes
4. They have done 1274 exercises in total
5. 4 stickers per day
6. 15 days in doing 15 km again
7. 12’875 years
8. 826 songs
9. 6.5 apples
10. 1761’07
11. 995’43
12. 6’33×10^10
13. 53629446
14. 296’1988
15. 231
16. 593
17. 1850959872
The Codey Rocky cards have these challenges:
1. Make the Codey Rocky smile when you press button A.
2. Make the Codey Rocky say “HELLO!” when you press button B.
3. Make the Codey Rocky be angry when you press button C.
4. Make the Codey Rocky laugh when you press button A.
5. Make the Codey Rocky go back 5 seconds.
6. Make the Codey Rocky move forward 10 seconds.
7. Make the Codey Rocky turn right 90º.
8. Make the Codey Rocky turn left 100º
9. Make the Codey Rocky be in love when you press button B.
10. Make the Codey Rocky make a sound when you press button C.
11. Make the Codey Rocky move forward 16 seconds.
12. Make the Codey Rocky go back 12 seconds.
13. Make the Codey Rocky turn right 80º.
14. Make the Codey Rocky turn left 40º.
15. Make the Codey Rocky make a sound when you press button B.
16. Make the Codey Rocky laugh when you press button C.
17. Make the Codey Rocky say “HELLO!” when you press button C.
18. Make the Codey Rocky turn right during 8 seconds.
19. Make the Codey Rocky turn right during 5 seconds.
20. Make the Codey Rocky turn left during 7 seconds.
And last but not least, the Last Challenge cards have these six big challenges for the children:
Make the Codey Rocky do a TRIANGLE.
Make the Codey Rocky do a SQUARE.
Make the Codey Rocky do a PENTAGON.
Make the Codey Rocky do a RECTANGLE.
Make the Codey Rocky do a RHOMBUS.
Make the Codey Rocky do a HEXAGON.
This are the instructions of the Codey Rocky for the children:
This is the poster with more information of the activity.
This is an example of how it would be:
Also, we include here the standards that this activity achieves in Mathematics:
1.2 Conoce los números romanos y los usa adecuadamente.
2.1. Interpreta diferentes números (naturales, fracciones, números decimales, etc.) en textos de la vida cotidiana, utilizando razonamientos apropiados.
3.1 Usa estrategias de cálculo mental como una manera rápida de encontrar el resultado.
8.2. Selecciona y/o aplica la operación u operaciones correctas para resolver problemas.
For improving this activity, we could convert it in an exam better than in a review game. Also we could do less complex challenges in the “Last Challenge” because some people said that maybe they were a bit too complex for the kids.
This fair was a great experience in which we realized three incredibles activities that we are going to develop in the next posts.
We received a lot of suggestions, but we selected these ones because we think can help us to improve our work and also because the rest of them were opinions that do not say anything that can be useful for us for improve our activities.
On Tuesday was the day of the fair. We were a little bit stressed because we had to do a great effort. We took our own tables, so we did not depend on University’s staff. We set our stand in the main corridor, where everyone could see us. The night before, we asked Marcos Bote to come to our stand, and we took a photo with all people who listened to our activities. Our suggestions box was full of comments with good comments and things to improve.
The five terms I have selected for this tasks are: -Coding: Coding consists on prepare a robot to make any action. In this case “game of goose” there were fields were you had to codify Cody Rockey.
-Planning: As in many jobs, organization is the base of all jobs. IN this fair, is clearly identified, because there were so many things to do, so we needed organization as the top of our pyramid.
-Stan: Stan is the place where a person or a group, explain detailedly about a topic. In education, we used it to explain our activities where everybody could hear and use our ideas in their planification and daily routines in class
-Interactive exercises: This is the base of the future education that we are trying to establish in a near future, where students do not learn by listening to a teacher speech, instead, they can touch, or see something in a way that they do not get bored. In this fair, the three exercises we prepared, were interactive.
-Standards: Standard is the way to evaluate an activity. In this fair, we also showed all the standards that teacher had to take into account to develop it.
Ethic problem:
The ethic problem of most of the activities we presented in the fair are that, for two of them, we need technologies that should come from outside the educational material. That means that not all students have the chance of developing the activity. To solve this problem, we should communicate it to the principal if they can give as technological material to develop the activity. ALso, the other problem is that this activity take too many time, and they should be prepared by groups, so maybe not all students participate as we expect from a teacher vision
On the 25th of march, we were sent the task of doing 3 activities related to stop motion, augmented reality and codey rocky to present them in a fair. The week after this, we started to think about the activities after having looked for the standards of the course we had chosen and then on the easter holidays, we started to develop this activities. We did some mornings skype to have clear what each one of us had to do and also for being talking while we were working and so the working days were a little bit more enjoyable. The week after the holidays, María and Ana did the videos of how to do the game of codey rocky and how to do the stop motion, respectively. Finally, last Tuesday, 7th of may, we presented our activities on the fair of the faculty of education and we ended very relaxed and happy with the job that we had done.
Now I am going to include two websites that I have visited and that seem very interesting to me:
The website from the class that I have chosen is sixinonerict.blogspot.com because I saw their work at the fair and it was extremely good how they presented it and how they organized the materials they had to do the presentation.
The website from outside the class that I have chosen is https://www.laopiniondemalaga.es/malaga/2019/04/01/profesor-maristas-evento-mundial-education/1078919.html because it has seemed very interesting to me this conference, which I didn’t know anything about and also because I think that this type of reunions are important to share opinions and experiences with TIC and also I have chosen this webpage because it is the one that shows how a spanish teacher has reached this level.
This weeke we have enjoyed a lot of things, but the best part was seeing the faces of people when we explained the activity because they liked it, in spite of it, the worst were the nervous before the fair, not knowing if all the effort would have any reward.
We have learnt that we can get inspired from other’s activities and change them in order to adapt them to our necessities in the classroom in a fun way for the children.
On the one hand, we have worked as a real team and we need to conserve the connection we had prepare all the activities and all the materials. However, in the fair we saw great ideas, so for the next time, we need to try to think a step forward in order to do more interesting things and with more applications.
This week has been one of the busiest one, but at the end it was one of the best. We started some weeks ago preparing this task, thinking about what can each one of us do.
When we all decided which were going to be the activities we were going to do, I looked for the roles, in order to let the star and the journalist do their job recording the fair. So, the rest, each one was the person who explained the activity to the people: María with the Codey Rocky, Ana with the stop-motion and me (Gonzalo) with the augmented reality. Aurora and Javi filmed the fair and then, when they finished, they helped us explaining all the tasks.
I also chose myself to tell some people to come to see us to the fair. Some of our partners of group 3 came to see us, as a friend that is studying medicine and another one who is in computing. I also told Marcos Bote, our sociology teacher, to come and see us, and he did.
For preparing the fair, we all worked together. For example Aurora was the one who did the instructions, María designed the gameboard of the Codey Rocky, Ana did a lot of things for the stop-motion task, Javi prepare some things for the exercises of the Codey Rocky and I did the questions of the Codey Rocky.
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