"Laundry"
The first idea of ROBOT MASTERS in the framework of FLL World Class-Challenge was an educational activity that invented and named the “Laundry”.
At the beginning of the term students get aquatinted with the historical period that they will be studying. They start to display the most important facts that took place at that particular time in a timeline in a very funny but effective way: they hung it, in chronological order in a rope around the class, the way we hang our clothes out to dry. They get familiar with historical meanings; they learn to find sources and to evaluate the sources’ reliability.
What do we need: a laundry basket (cards with facts and dates), laundry rope and pegs.
Use it and … have fun!!
However, if you are more high-tech, you can create interactive historical lines, using:
www.timeline.knightlab.com
www.dipity.com
www.timetoast.com
www.softschools.com/teacher_resources/timeline_maker
At the beginning of the term students get aquatinted with the historical period that they will be studying. They start to display the most important facts that took place at that particular time in a timeline in a very funny but effective way: they hung it, in chronological order in a rope around the class, the way we hang our clothes out to dry. They get familiar with historical meanings; they learn to find sources and to evaluate the sources’ reliability.
What do we need: a laundry basket (cards with facts and dates), laundry rope and pegs.
Use it and … have fun!!
However, if you are more high-tech, you can create interactive historical lines, using:
www.timeline.knightlab.com
www.dipity.com
www.timetoast.com
www.softschools.com/teacher_resources/timeline_maker