The Curriculum Catalyst is about sharing ideas for curriculum content. It provides people the opportunity to contribute to a pool of ideas. Castles is the latest topic.
(1)Topic ideas are added into Google Moderator, (2) voted on for interestingness (3) an open Google Doc is created for the top topics and (4) teachers and educators add ideas and resources for the classroom about that topic.
Here are some highlights from the new topic document:
- Turn your classroom into a castle, giving the children specific roles from servants to sovereigns. You could even dress up.
- Castle design – think about the reasons behind the design of castles, focusing on defence and security etc.
- Top Trumps – students research, plan and design ‘Top Trumps’ cards for Castles.
Make sure you explore the document to see the other ideas for using CASTLES as a topic in your classroom.
If you have ideas to contribute you can go ahead and add it to the document, no need to sign in.
Here are the other documents that have been created by the education community:
If you would like to add topic ideas, see what is in the Catalyst and vote on them take a look at the Curriculum Catalyst page for info. (Currently SPACE is the top ranked topic to be crowd-sourced next)