You know that you are beginning to win the battle when a student approaches you at the end of the lesson and asks if you can post links to what they've just covered on 'your blog'....So...
P4 have begun to look at the global collaborative project on islands that I've been tweeting about a lot recently. We looked at the project Wiki and also located the other schools using Google Maps. We spent time looking at Hong Kong Island making sure we knew the districts so that we could explain them to a student from another school.
During the next session we will begin to assemble the resources we need to present information abour our island life and about our school. As we were looking at satellite images of the skyscrapers in and around mid-levels we thought about how the students of one of the schools in the project might feel about our island. Their island, in the Orkneys of Scotland has a total population of 70 - most of the buildings in mid-levels have at least that number living in them!
Google Maps is a great resource for studying your own locality as well as that of others - here's the link.
For this of you who want to explore Hong Kong a little more why not take a look at out Google Earth quiz from last year?
If you would like to know more about our global islands project, the Wiki can be viewed here. We've only just started but hopefully more should appear shortly.
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