ICT+tools+for+primary+teachers



= __**ICT Tools for primary teachers**__  =

This wiki is a interactive digital tool for students. this wiki is for the second cycle of primary education whit a bilingual program. The teachers have created this wiki and for to introduce the use of ICT inside the classroom related to a topic of the curricular subject, science. Whit this digital project teachers provide an interaction and flashback between the digital information, teachers and classmates. The topic is "**__Healthy and balance diet"__**. the main curricular objective whit this wiki is that the pupils can learn to create your own healthy and balance diet (final activity).

For this, firstly students has to learn some basic concept. They need to know these concepts for can create a diet.

What is a diet? • Importance of healthy and balanced diet • Food pyramid
 * Content**

• To understand the importance of good nutrition and relationship between good nutrition and good health. • To identify the 6 groups in the food pyramid. • To learn to classify food in your corresponding group. • To combine all types food to create a healthy and balanced diet
 * Objetives:**

For to develop this wiki, we have focused in these situations:

• Food names • The need to feed
 * What do they already know about this topic?**

• A complete an balanced diet. • The food pyramid and the different groups that compose.
 * What do I want to teach about this topic?**

• Know how to create a complete and balanced diet for our body to function and develop properly. • The need to combination foods in our diet of all groups in the food pyramid.
 * What did they learn after the class about this topic?**

Also, whit this digital purpose, the teachers are encourage the use of the next curricular competences:

Competency in linguistic communication. Competency in the use of new technologies. Competency in social awareness and citizenship. Competency in learning to learn. Competency in autonomous learning and personal initiative.

__**Netiquette and methodology carried out for this wiki:**__
Usually, this resource could be new for students. for this reason is very important that the teacher provide to students a several guide steps and support them. The teacher must explain the main objective of this purpose at the beginning of the project. For to develop this digital project the teacher use the **methodology scaffolding**. Scaffolding is the steps teachers take to support students so that they can understand new content and develop new skills. Later, students could use the new learning in different context without the support of scaffolding. It is temporally support the help students do thing now as well as in the future. we think that, what students can do now whit support they can do alone tomorrow.

The teacher has to help students whit several strategies: student: giving examples, describing a process, expressing condition, expressing agreement/disagreement,giving instructions, suggesting, etc).

Also, the teachers focus in to provide the **active methodology;** This methodology consists in to allow students to take an active part in doing it in the process. For this reason, the learning becomes in more active for them.So, students becomes involved in their learning. the attitude of curiosity, critical and creative thinking are sharpened and became in more natural to them. In spite of this, students are learning to work together, they must learn to take pride in their works, respect other classmates work and keep it tidy.

Finally, i would like to explain briefly the **assesment** of this wiki, The assessment thath we are going to carry out is an interactive process between students and teachers that informs the teacher how weel their students are learning whit ICT. For this reason, the assessment is formative assessment, it is assessment for learning; the information of this assessment could be used by the teacher to make chances in the learning enviroment, and is shared whit students to assit them in imporving their learning and use of digital resources.

__**List of ICT tools for primary teachers and short description about each one of them:**__
This digital project not only provide learning and interaction to students. the teacher also receives and provided new information and resources for to teach some content whit ICT inside the classroom. the teacher can find a lot of tools for to work whit their students. Also, they could participate and shared information whit other teachers trough collaborative works or blogs. Next, i am going to show some web links useful for teachers • The potato story: The potato story. In this web page we can find a topic about: “creating a balanced diet”. In this web page has three steps for to work this topic, these steps are for kids, teachers and parents. • Nourish Interactive. Health educator´s Section This web page is very interesting and useful for to use in this topic. This web page contains several sections: ( home, parents, teachers, healthy giveaways,store and a blog) But, we are going to focus in the section about teachers. In this section the teacher has several online resources, such as lesson plans, educators tools and resources (kids free nutrition print-ables worksheets, working whit parents tolls and materials.  •  Working whit Smart This page is a good resource for to introduce the use of ICT inside the classroom. in this web page, the teacher can find several proposes for to work whit interactive digital board in the classroom. the teacher has the opportunity to look for by subject, topic and cycle.   •  Lessons Plans Page In this web page we can find lessons plans by teachers for teachers. In this web page teachers can find several lessons plans for specific subject and grade of primary education. Also, this web page is interactive for teacher; So, they can participate together, Thacher's share their ideas and resources for to work whit pupils.

Finally, i would like to show some **example** of the digital resource that we have used in our wiki:

**Tandoo,Audacity and voicethret**: These resources has been includen inside the webquest.

**Wordless:**

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This resource is useful for to introduce to student vocbulary about the topic. For to create and develop it, the sutdents or teacher have to go on the next steps: Line 1: a one-word line, a noum, that fives the poem its title. Line 2: Two adjetives that describes what the poem is about. Line 3: Three action-ing verb that describe something the subject of the poem does. Line 4: A phrase that indictes a feeling related to the subect of the poem. Line 5: A one-word line, noum, that sums about the poem is about, essentially remaning it.

In this ocasion, we have created a wordle about our topic, healthy food.

Food Heath, Fast Eating, Drinking, Savoring Fruits, Vegetables, Grains, Sweets

Testing, Cooking, Growing Yummy, Bitter Heath food