Oddly calm

Last Period on a Friday is usually a tricky lesson particularly with 10NR who are resistant to learning at the best of times. On Friday they were unusally docile.

The lesson started with a YouTube clip of the Tangiwai train crash from the docudrama on TV a while ago, then I explained Volcanoes, and set them to work. It was colouring and cutting and pasting, but they had to label stuff as they went. I also had clips of volcanic activity on the screen for them to watch. Perhaps it was the two pronged approach. As they gave up on one activity they were caught by the screen, and when they were bored of the volcanic clips they went back to the cutting and pasting. It probably isn't helping to develop a long attention span, but it did seem to keep them on topic in the classroom.