Using Wallwisher for Homework

This term's Year 6 Geography topic is 'How are We Connected?', for the last part of the topic over the next few weeks 6A and 6S will be doing a project on a country they are some way connected to. For homework last week I asked them to make a list of five countries they are connected to in some way in preparation for the next lesson.

Rather than asking children to bring in the list on paper I set up two wallwisher pages.

6A Wallwisher homework

6S Wallwisher homework

This was my first time using wallwisher and also the children's. They went away from their lessons excited about the prospect of doing their homework in a different way and I was pleased to see that, by the time I got home on Friday evening, several children had already done the homework! It is good to see the children motivated and keen to try new things.

One of the reasons I decided to use Wallwisher is so that we can look at the homework together as a class on the IWB at the beginning of the next lesson. The children will be mapping their connections and eventually paired up with someone who has the same country as them to do the project, having the information online and in such a visual way will hopefully make this much easier.
One of the things I like best about Wallwisher is its ease of use, setting up a wall takes about 5 minutes!

Year 6 English Word Clouds

Year 6 have been doing some work on synonyms in English. I gave them some boring words - walk, look and speak and with the aid of their brains and a thesaurus asked them to come up with some more interesting words.

We used wordle.net to make word clouds out of the words they came up with. The children put in the 'boring' words 6 times so they that would come out larger and the more interesting words once.
Unfortunately the font changes you can do with Wordle wouldn't work on the computers the children were using so all their word clouds ended up in the same font.

Year 6 loved using Wordle!

6A Geography How Are We Connected?

In Geography 6A have been working on the topic 'How Are We Connected?'
For homework children made a list of 5 towns or cities in the UK that they are connected to.
In the next lesson we plotted some of those places onto a map of the UK using Google earth.

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