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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: December 2nd, 2009  Posted in: 2. Events and Happenings | for students Tags for this post: Escher | STEM | STEM Club | tessellation | tile.  Leave a commentI was going to wait until we had finished until I blogged about this, but I’m really excited about our latest STEM Club project! We’re making Escher style tiles – real, actual clay tiles and it’s great fun. Last week we started by setting the students a challenge: Making Escher Tiles View more presentations [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: November 18th, 2009 Posted in: 2. Events and Happenings | for students Tags for this post: STEM | STEM Club. Leave a commentWe had second attempt at relaunching STEM Club today – and it was much more successful than the trip that we were forced to abandon last week. This week we just ran a few simple challenges for a group of Y7, Y8 and Y9 students. Science: Neutralise it We gave the students some sodium [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: October 7th, 2009 Posted in: 2. Events and Happenings | for students Tags for this post: Bang Goes the Theory | science. 2 comments - more welcome!This is public service blog post for the surprising number of people who have arrived here looking for it! Some Birley students and one of my colleagues featured in episode 10 of Bang Goes the Theory. They were brilliant, but you can see that for yourself if you watch them on the BBC i-player. (I’m claiming [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: October 5th, 2009 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | 2. Events and Happenings | e-learning | for teachers | resources and ideas Tags for this post: #tmnw | cool tools | ed-tech | PLN | teachmeet. 2 comments - more welcome!
I’ve wanted to go to a Teachmeet for ages, but somehow other things kept getting in the way. Last Friday, I finally made it. (If you are thinking, ‘What’s a Teachmeet?’ then click here) A few friends and colleagues clearly thought I was a bit mad (You’re driving to Manchester? The rain! [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 9th, 2009 Posted in: 2. Events and Happenings | for students Tags for this post: pi | pi day. Leave a commentIt’s nearly Pi Day and this year I’m feeling quite excited about it. The actual date is 3/14 (that’s 14th March for those of us on this side of the pond), which is inconveniently a Saturday, but what the heck, we’ll just have to celebrate a day early. Even if it does clash inconveniently [...] |
Hi, I'm Lois Lindemann - welcome to my blog! I teach maths at Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School, a secondary school in the UK. This is where I'm planning to share links and explore ideas that I find useful or interesting - hopefully other educators will also find something of interest here. Thanks for dropping in. Feel free to comment. NB: Any opinions expressed here are those of the author or commenter; they don't (necessarily) reflect the view taken by Dronfield Henry Fanshawe.   |
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