Year 1 - Technology Outdoors

See 12 Amazingly Creative Examples of Environmental Art.

Here's some art made outdoors by my students using ipads:

A lesson plan: It is easy to have a ‘closed’ view of what art is. Many contemporary artists work within or change the environment in small ways to make the viewer look in a new way. In this activity learners will be encouraged to look around carefully for interesting and attractive or thought provoking things [...]

A lesson plan: In the National Curriculum in England, learning in art is underpinned by what is known as the ‘visual elements’. These are colour, tone, line, pattern, texture, shape, space and form. When looking at or making art we can’t help but refer to some of these so it is important to learn what they [...]

A lesson plan: To consider the relationship between a sculpture (form) and its location outdoors (space). To explore scale and the relationship between smaller than, larger than and actual size. For further details details see the Virtual sculptures outdoors lesson plan. Image attribution: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, outside the National Maritime Museum. Photograph by Mike [...]

A lesson plan: To observe and notice detail outdoors, listing it orally or in writing. For further details details see the Words in the landscape lesson plan.

Here's an example of the 'The secret life of the outdoors' made with Chatterpix and ThingLink.

I led a session on Wild Writing for Primary English specialist teachers this morning. Here's a Padlet with the ideas and resources if anyone would find them useful. - Jean Edwards

Here is a small collection of 'howto' videos for some apps and webtools. Some of these may be useful when thinking about designing the media packages.

A lesson plan: To inspire talking and writing in the voice of an imagined other. For further details details see The secret life of the outdoors lesson plan.