Learning Path
Once Upon a Time...: Traditional Tales with a Twist Activities Learning Path
By Yvonne Larkin
The following links provide a range of activities to bring traditional tales to life through STEM activities, science experiments, ICT, drama and cross curricular ideas.
9 resources in this Learning Path
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Creating an iMovie using a well-known children's Story
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/14201/13839.pdf Added: 07 Jul 2015 Contributor: Lorraine Connolly Resource type: Lesson PlanThis lesson outlines how one might use a tablet to create a movie/visual story based on the well-known story, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
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- 3-4
- English
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- create and sustain imaginary contexts through improvisational drama
- create and tell stories to the class or group, and retell them after questioning, comparing the versions
- discuss favourite moments, important events and exciting characters in a story, play or poem
- dramatise stories
- express feelings and attitudes through improvisational drama
- express reactions to events and characters in stories
Suggestions for use: This resource could be used in a follow-up lesson on traditional tales/ narrative writing. It offers children the opportunity to express their imaginative interpretation of a well known story using a digital media.
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How to Catch a Porridge Thief?
http://www.innovatemyschool.com/ide...ear-one-into-traditional-tales.html Added: 17 Jul 2017 Contributor: Yvonne Larkin Resource type:Using iPads for a literacy topic to bring traditional tales to life: How to catch a porridge thief? (Goldilocks). Amazing ideas!
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Interviewing the Big Bad Wolf
http://mrparkinsonict.blogspot.ie/2...15/02/interviewing-big-bad-wolf.htm Added: 17 Jul 2017 Contributor: Yvonne Larkin Resource type:Interviewing the Big Bad Wolf using tablets (Morfo booth or Yakit Kids)
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Enchanted Engineering
http://www.getcaughtengineering.com/enchanted-engineering/ Added: 17 Jul 2017 Contributor: Yvonne Larkin Resource type:STEM lessons with fairy tales
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Fairy Tale Science Experiments
http://www.science-sparks.com/2015/.../30/fairy-tale-science-experiments/ Added: 17 Jul 2017 Contributor: Yvonne Larkin Resource type:Fairy Tale Science Experiments
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Dear Fairy Godmother
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/books/dear-fairy-godmother Added: 17 Jul 2017 Contributor: Yvonne Larkin Resource type:Cross curricular ideas for Dear Fairy Godmother by Nick Sharatt.
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Fractured Fairy Tales
http://www.readwritethink.org/class...es/fractured-fairy-tales-30062.html Added: 17 Jul 2017 Contributor: Yvonne Larkin Resource type:The children get the opportunity to rewrite a fairy tale using this online tool.
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Explore Gender Stereotypes through Traditional Tales
http://ark.ie/downloads/Far_Away_From_Me_Classroom_Activity_Pack.pdf Added: 17 Jul 2017 Contributor: Yvonne Larkin Resource type:Using fairy tales to challenge gender stereotypes. The activities can be adapted for younger classes. This pack provides ideas to use drama activities so the children are actively engaged in their learning to explore gender stereotypes through stories the children are familiar with.
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STEM activities with Fairy Tales
http://preksweetpeas.blogspot.ie/20...03/fairy-tales-knights-castles.html Added: 17 Jul 2017 Contributor: Yvonne Larkin Resource type:STEM activities with Fairy Tales
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