If you work in a school in rural Derbyshire and you have to do a traffic survey knowing full well all you are going to see is Fred's tractor and a sheep on the run this is for you! I have used this at a rural school and at a school where we did a local traffic survey and then did this activity so we could compare the road outside our school with a road in busy London.
You can use this on an IWB with the pupils sat around it or on pc's with two or three pupils in a group, usually a couple of spotters and one to record the results on a tally sheet. Do it for two or three minutes and then swap over. This is no more than a five to ten minute activity, the novelty soon wears off! The website is http://www.abbeyroad.co.uk/virtual_visit/webcam. Change the setting to fast, which is a new picture every two or three seconds which is fast enough for the younger children.
Create a pictogram with the results, and have a chat about it. If you want to compare two traffic surveys you can talk about vehicles that you may see in rural Derbyshire that you will not see in London, ie tractor and vice versa, ie black cabs!
Have fun!
1 comment:
Nice idea, sounds a bit safer too! This blogging is a really good way of sharing teachers ideas, keep up the good work. Oh, and thanks for hosting the ICT briefing, especially with chocolate biscuits - the challenge is now on between you and Alex, as to who will host next time, as you both do biscuits so well!
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