Teaching Students with Learning Difficulties: October 2015

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Photography: Circles

Our second project this term has been Circles

I based it on an image found on The Crafty Crow

http://www.thecraftycrow.net/2012/09/beginning-photography-for-kids.html

We also used Paint.net to arrange the images . It is not as flexible as Photoshop but did allow us to add images in new layers.Once in they were difficult to move around and could only be moved by highlighting the images with the selecting tool.

We were very pleased with the results!

Safety at the railway station.

Teaching the rules about the Yellow Line on the railway platform

https://app.box.com/s/k9nmdz08g8cxt6sh3v2efyv0iqzu61tr

Read the Story of the man in Perth Australia

Watch the short film on You Tube

People Power frees man

Watch the video Safe at the station part 1

Use an information sheet Word or PDF about Yellow Line rules and Mind the Gap !

A instruction sheet for a follow up task: Create a poster

Visiting the Railway station:

A tick sheet to use when visiting a railway station. Word version

PDF version

From Skills workshop An e2/3 powerpoint about Train safety

'A railway safety PowerPoint to be used as a discussion on why we need to stay safe around railway lines. Can be used as a speaking and listening tool to form discussion points or as a reading comprehension.'

Southern Rail have produced a series of videos on how to use the ticket machine

See my other Train travel blog entry: Train Safety

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Employing a person with a learning disability

Healthy Living: Taking your Pulse

In the Zone has some excellent resources
Introduction
Body Trivia questions

From the resources 9-11 section Adapt PowerPoint presentation - lesson 1 Use slide 3
to talk about how the heart works

http://www.getinthezone.org.uk/schools/ages-4-11/ages-9-11/ages-9-11-resources/

They also recommend these videos

The heart and how it works

Keeping healthy - the effect of exercise on pulse rate

Heart and circulation

The try a practical activity about taking your pulse

How to take your pulse is a very good guide

http://www.getinthezone.org.uk/schools/ages-4-11/ages-9-11/game-the-pulse/

Good background information here including expected pulse rates.

Habits of the Heart

The next step

understanding recovery rates

The amount of time the heart takes to return to a normal at-rest rate after exercise is called recovery time. This is a measure of the body's general fitness. The shorter the recovery time, the higher the level of fitness. ( source Habits of a Healthy Heart )

from 9-11 section Powerpoint 2 slide 4

The Zone explains

'recovery rate which is measured here in beats per minute (bpm). Ask the students what they notice about the recovery rates of the people ... They should notice that the people who do the most strenuous exercise on a regular basis (i.e. the marathon runner and the swimmer) have higher recovery rates than those who do only light exercise (the dog walker and the boy who cycles to school), which means that their heart rate slows down more in the first minute after exercise.'