Sep 10 2008
Conservation Project
I’m really proud of a group from my S5 Higher Biology class who took a homework task and really made it their own. They were were set the task of producing something which could be used to raise awareness of global and local conservation projects. Six of the pupils decided to make a video on the work of Edinburgh Zoo and the reintroduction of beavers into Scotland. They used their own equipment, money and time to do this and you can see their product below:
For me, this is exactly what Curriculum for Excellence is about. It’s my task to find a way of incorporating these sorts of activities into lesson time, and hopefully a reduction in content will assist in this?
Wow! That’s really good, especially when it’s been done in their own time.
For me the ease in which you can put together videos - which the pupils so obviously enjoyed - make such a learning task so much more attractive to pupils.
You’ll have to let them know how impressed I am.
Stuart