Week 4 Dreamtime Stories and M&M Activity

Today workshop we looked at the "Dustechoes" website: http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/. I found this website was quite interesting and good resources to use when teaching about Aboriginal culture. The website focused on Aboriginal culture and exploring their dreamtime stories. I selected a story called the "Morning Star" and viewed the video. After viewing the video I then captured the image and pasted it into the Inspiration software and retell
the story in my own words. The activity took me quite a while to understand what to do. Firstly I didn't really have good knowledge about Aboriginal culture, having to read and retell the story in my own words was quite confusing and time consuming. I noticed some students in the class were also confused.
This is a good activity to do considering if students have prior knowledge and have some lessons on Aboriginal culture before hands. More time should have been provided to help those students who were not skills in ICT.

The second activity was sorting and graphing the colours of M&M. I brought to class a bag of M&M and sorted out the colours. Once the M&M get sorted I then graph the result using Microsoft Excel. There were different template of graph you can use. I chose the vertical bar graph and filled the colours corresponding to its name (see the picture below). Some images of M&M characters were inserted to make the graph looks more interesting.

I was very engaged with the M&M's Activity and would recommended this activity to everyone who want to use it for numeracy and ICT lessons. This activity can be found at http://www.m-ms.com/us/