Using Flickr mosaics in my lesson.
A few weeks ago, I had to plan a lesson on food and drinks to a year 8 (12 years old) low ability group to show how I use differentiation. I was going to be observed by some senior managers so I decided to show them my IT skills and what I have learnt so far thanks mostly to the great professionals I follow on twitter.
The aim of the lesson was to introduce different food from different countries to my students and to create a nice menu which would include the words they have learnt during the lesson.To find pictures of different types of food, I searched on Flickr. I was introduced to Flickr by attending a free online course on exploring images in the 21st Century Classroom organized by EVO http://aliceayel.posterous.com/free-online-course-for-educato Flickr is a free website where you can upload you photos and videos, but not only that, you can also edit your photos and make them look nicer, add comments and captions, and search for pictures taken by other members of Flickr. So I looked for pictures of different types of restaurants and then of different types of food. I favorited them on my account http://flickr.com/people/aliceayel/ .
Then I went to http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ to create two mosaics with my two sets of photos http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
So on one hand, I have eight restaurants
and on the other hand I have 16 different types of food
My students were teamed up into groups of 3 to 4 and had to look at the mosaics and to decide the type of restaurant (French, Chinese, Mexican ....) and then on the nationality of the food and if it was a starter, main course or desert. In teams, they then created their own menu.
The lesson went well because students liked to work in teams and helping each other out and also because they liked guessing from the pictures.You can view and download the lesson plan, as well as the slideshow for the lesson and the worksheet describing the food. LESSON PLAN for Observations Types of Food Explanation Buddy Evaluation And you? have you used Flickr or Big Huge labs in your lessons?
