Archive for November, 2006

Opinion or Bias

Monday, 27-11-06

If I were to say that “Mr Chenery is the greatest teacher ever” I’m sure you’d all agree with me. However, am I telling the Truth? Or is what I am saying Biased in any way?

Have a quick go at the quiz and see if you can pick out the biased quotes from the opinions.

Opinion or Bias Quiz

Once you’ve done that we are going to try and sort you’re original ideas from your Mind Map into those that are an opinion and those that are biased.

Try this Mind Mapper to help you out.

Porpoise on Purpose?

Monday, 20-11-06

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Information can be used in lots of different ways for lots of different purposes.

Have a quick go at these games:

Gears of Warinfo – An exciting FPS, where you must match up information to with what it is used for.

Legend of Zolda: Twilight Wordjumble – Join Lanky in an adventure to spell the keywords

Year 9 – Working by yourself

Thursday, 16-11-06

 

Todays lesson I won’t be helping you much. This is to let you:

  1. Work out what you need to do from information you have been given
  2. Solve problems when you encounter them
  3. Get the most marks from questions

You have an e-mail called ‘Working on your own’ on HadNet that you need to read. You need to figure out what to do, and then do as much as you can by the end of the lesson.

READ THIS THROUGH AT LEAST TWICE AND THEN WAIT FOR THE INSTRUCTION TO START!!!