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Promethean have partnered with telecommunications company BT's Better World Campaign to assist in producing its first teaching resource designed exclusively for whiteboard use, titled ‘Molly on Board.’
About Molly on Board
‘Molly and the Pirate’, originally a comic book, has now been expanded into a series of flipcharts titled Molly on Board. The comic has been divided into seven chapters, each accompanied by an activity flipchart incorporating voting and other exercises.
Each flipchart’s menu includes teacher notes detailing how to use the materials, suggested links to the curriculum, and pictures from the story in a Word document enabling teachers and students to create their own comics or work materials.
Promethean and BT Education
BT provides a range of educational resources that promote better communication skills for children, their parents and teachers. All are available for free from BT's website www.bt.com/betterworld as part of BT's Better World Campaign, an initiative launched in 2006, aiming to make every young voice heard and provide the tools and platforms with which to use them.
Commenting on the first time that BT have adapted their resources for flipchart format, Dave Hancock, Head of Education and Volunteering at BT, said: "Whiteboards provide an amazing way for teachers to stimulate class discussion and group activities. Working with Promethean has encouraged us to look at how the new digital technologies in the classroom can promote more speaking and listening activities."
How you can use the story
The story of Molly and the Pirate was created and illustrated by John Rowley. Pictures made especially for this resource can be found in the 'For Teachers' section on the Molly on Board menu, should you wish to use them for paper materials.
All the flipcharts are unpublished so teachers can re-save and change them to make their own flipcharts. In the 'For Teachers' site there are ideas on how to use the materials in different ways contributed by teachers. Any teacher can send their own ideas on different ways of using the content to dialogic@dialogics.com
Alternatively, if you are an Activstudio or Activprimary user, pictures of Molly can be downloaded from the resource pack section of Promethean Planet and loaded directly into your Resource bank; creating your own teaching materials and stories.
Who would benefit from the story?
The Molly and the Pirate flipchart is ideal for mainstream school Years 5 & 6, but will also engage Year 7 students. Advisory teachers have linked the contents to the Numeracy and Literacy strategy and notes on this with information on how the content could be used for listening, speaking, reading and writing activities, are included in the ‘For Teachers’ tab of the menu.
Example flipchart pages
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Perfect for PHSE lessons, Molly and the Pirate flipcharts can be used to create group discussion, role play and debate, using hand-drawn cartoon illustrations. |
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By downloading the flipchart you can also use it to integrate voting into your discussions - look at the picture, what do you think the pirates are arguing about? |
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As part of the extensive resources with Molly and the Pirate, children can also learn about facial expressions using a great drag-and-drop flash game. |
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When you download the materials from the Education section of the BT website, the viewer will give you access to the seven chapters along with other materials for teachers. |
Download the resources
Everything you need for Molly & the Pirate is within a special installer. The whole installer can be downloaded from this ZIP file link.
Please note that this is quite a big download, so it might take a few minutes to install.
When you installed the software it can be accessed via a ‘Molly’ head icon on your desktop.
Activstudio & Activprimary users can also download a Molly on Board resource pack.
Once opened, these are the contents of the Molly folder:
- Seven chapter flipcharts and accompanying activity flipcharts
- The ‘For Teachers’ tab
- A link to download Flipchart Viewer for people who don’t have Promethean whiteboards
- A link to Promethean Planet to download the Molly and the Pirate resource pack for use with the Activboard