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 where learners will be encouraged to look around carefully for interesting and attractive or thought provoking things that might usually be overlooked.

A lesson plan where the learner will be given (or choose) one of the visual elements and a definition of it to explore outdoors. These are colour, tone, line, pattern, texture, shape, space and form.

A lesson plan to consider the relationship between a sculpture (form) and its location outdoors (space). And explore scale and the relationship between smaller than, larger than and actual size. Image attribution: Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, outside the National Maritime Museum. Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)

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.

A Padlet with ideas and resources from a session on Wild Writing for Primary English specialist teachers.

Guidance for some apps and webtools that 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.