The Popcorn Gang – Using Glow to support an Enterprise Activity
Overview
Victoria Hogg is a Primary 3 class teacher at St. Andrew’s Primary School in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire. She has recently started to look at ways that Glow can be used to support teaching and learning in classroom.
In this cookbook we will look at how Victoria used a Glow Group and the web parts within in to support teaching and learning in her class and also to run a Healthy Tuck shop with the learners. The cookbook will exemplar this good practice and shows how to re-create it.
Context
The Primary Three class were studying an interdisciplinary topic with a Health and Wellbeing and enterprise theme. The learners were looking at healthy living and food choices and as a result decided to develop a Healthy Tuck within the school which would offer alternative snacks at break time for the whole school. The Primary Three children run the Healthy tuck and provide the service for the school. In the initial stages they accessed grocery stores through web links in the glow group to look at healthy foods that they could eat at break time. They develop functional writing by writing to local superstores asking for support and ideas for healthy snacks. They completed surveys about which food would make good healthy snacks and ordered and bought their stock on line which was delivered to their class.
They then designed posters to advertise their Healthy Tuck and offered its service to the whole school. They decided to use Glow as a way to collate orders for their tuck shop. Everyday before 10.00 orders are posted by all classes throughout the school to show what their class would like to order that day. This order is then created by the children giving them real life experience of fractions as they count and cut fractions of fruit and pancakes and delivered for break time.
The children collect and count all money and bank this in the money book. They are familiar with the terms profit and loss and how their costs must cover their order price. All profit from the tuck shop is being gifted to Yorkhill Hospital.
CFE Outcomes and Experiences met through this process are,
Representing my class, school and/or wider community encourages my self-worth and confidence and allows me to contribute to and participate in society. HWB 1-12a
Through contributing my views, time and talents, I play a part in bringing about positive change in my school and wider community. HWB 1-13a
I value the opportunities I am given to make friends and be part of a group in a range of situations.
HWB 1-14a
I am developing my understanding of the human body and can use this knowledge to maintain and improve my wellbeing and health.HWB 1-15a
Through taking part in a variety of events and activities, I am learning to recognise my own skills and abilities as well as those of others. HWB 1-19a
I experience a sense of enjoyment and achievement when preparing simple healthy foods and drinks.
HWB 1-30b
Ingredients
What did Victoria need do to use Glow to support this enterprise topic.
1. A Glow Group
2. Access to Glow Group for all pupils in class and teachers from other classes.
3. A printer
It was necessary to ensure users had Contributor rights within the Glow Group to enable them add to the orders for the Healthy Tuck.
In the next section, we’ll take a look at the Popcorn Gang Glow Group and learn how to recreate elements within it.
Recipe
The video below shows the ‘Popcorn Gang’ Glow Group. The videos that then follow show how these elements can be recreated.
Video Clip
*What does the Popcorn Gang Glow Group look like?
*How to copy and paste from Glow to Word
*How to add a Voki to a Glow Group
Impact
There have been a number of impacts from this project. The class teacher is now much more familiar with the components of Glow and now hopes to develop her use to support teaching and learning. She also feels that the children have now had a good experience with Glow and are capable of logging on navigating their way through the web parts confidently so she would like to enhance their experiences.
This experience has also encouraged other staff to log on and use Glow and become familiar with the components of Glow and therefore increase their skill base with the product.
The children are also now successfully running a healthy tuck and this has become an important part of the school’s Health promotion.
July 20, 2010 - 10:22 pm
Using Glow for this project has obviously given a dimension which wasn’t there before. It makes the whole process much smoother and supports the work the children do.
July 21, 2010 - 3:15 pm
I like that this project demonstrates ways that Glow can be used to support teaching and learning in the classroom.
I like also that it makes reference to how it has been successful in encouraging other staff to log on and use Glow, to become familiar with the components of Glow and thus has increased their skill base. The children seem to have enjoyed the whole Glow experience and gained alot from it.