Learning objectives and layers

[Lara]

Inspired by Justin's comment about putting things on the top layer in order to erase them, I thought I'd share this:

I frequently group a picture and the letters WALT ('We Are Learning To' for the uninitiated!) and put them on the top layer. I then move this on top of the learning objective - sometimes with a background.

Nearly every child (Y5) is deperate to tell me what WALT stands for and then be allowed to "reveal" the lesson objective. This started with striaghtforward rubbing out of the image, but now they have to rub out a "scribble" to reveal part of the writing and the rest of the class try and spot or guess words or even the whole objective. It never seems to lose its appeal and it certainly makes them a lot more interested in what WALT do today! :rolleyes:

[Margaret Allen]

I saw a lovely idea the other idea which is not erasing, but is about layers! :)

The teacher was at our Effective Practice event in Liverpool, thanks Graham! He was showing us a History flp. They (his class) were comparing old Runcorn with modern Runcorn. He had a photo which had a specific building in it. He had the old and modern versions. He locked one on the bottom layer and put/overlayed the other on top.

By making the top one translucent you could see the old "street" come through with the said building emerging in its old and new environment.

Hope that makes sense it was very powerful!

[clap]

[Lara (school)]

Thanks Margaret

I adapted that idea for a literacy lesson. We often look at black and white pictures and I get the children to imagine the colour or sound is being turned up and they tell me what they can see and hear. So I've used a black and white and colour version of the same picture, put the colour one in front with the translucency right down and then actually "turned up" the colour. About to use it with the children this morning - fingers crossed!

[Margaret Allen]

How was it?

+wave+

[Lara]

Worked really well - many children "saw" - i.e. imagined - things differently than they had done with the b/w image - also had the wow factor with the lower ability set (and several of the staff to whom I showed it!)