Here's the rough outline of what I hope to do:
Entry to some Music of Pi, possibly this one. Each note represents one of the digits 0-9, and the resulting music is played. This particular musician has created a whole symphony, by playing different instruments and putting it all together.
Pi dingbats. No, I wasn't sure what a dingbat was either, but think the old TV show, Catchphrase. "Say what you see." Here's an example:
Pupils can send their answers to the board via the handsets. It won't be a right or wrong type answer, but hopefully will be fun.
Then we're going to write the numbers of pie on to paper plates, starting at the centre and working our way out. The result should be a little like this:
Finally, a multiple choice quiz on various pi related topics. Again, just a bit of fun, but this time, using the Activexpression handsets, we can track right answers.Throughout the lesson, I'll have some posters up, maybe play some silly songs about pi, even encourage pupils to learn as many digits of pi as possible! Here's a favourite song I usually play when teaching circles:
I'm also having two different visitors to my lessons tomorrow. One to shadow a pupil. to look at his interactions during various subjects, the other is an English PGCE student who is interested in the use of ICT in the classroom.
I'll update on how the activities went, but first to create the relevant ActivExpression flipchart.
