Description:
For my first resource to introduce the topic of 'The Famine'. I would use the app 'Simplemind+' and the website bubbl.us which is a way of creating mind maps through technology. Teaching Ideas: I would use this to find out the previous related knowledge of the children. I give out the school ipads and ask the children to brainstorm in groups of 4/5 using the app 'Simplemind+' giving them prompt questions (who, what, where, when, why, how) to aid their group work. I would use this website along with the interactive whiteboard and create a whole class brainstorm. http://www.simpleapps.eu/simplemind/
https://bubbl.us/mindmap
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Eye witness account:
'...walking like skeletons, the men stamped with the livid mark of hunger; the children crying with pain, the women, in some of the cabins, too weak to stand... all the sheep were gone, all the cows, all the poultry killed; only one pig left, the very dogs had disappeared.'
WE Forster a wealthy British man visited Ireland in 1847- the worst year of the famine- a description of what he saw in Bundorragha in County Galway. '... a woman with a dead child in her arms was begging in the street... and the guard of the mail told me he saw a man and three dead childrenlying by the roadside.' -Major Parker, a famine relief inspector in Skibbereen County Kerry. (Uncovering History, Delap & McCormack, p.249) Description: A direct quote from a primary source- an eye witness at the time describing the devastation caused by the famine, a picture of Forster himself and a sample of pictures depicting the famine. Teaching Ideas:
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Results:
Description:
1 color coded picture showing the decrease in population from 1841 to 1851. Another color coded photo displaying the severity of the famine around Ireland.(google images)
Teaching Ideas:
1 color coded picture showing the decrease in population from 1841 to 1851. Another color coded photo displaying the severity of the famine around Ireland.(google images)
Teaching Ideas:
- I would ask the students to discuss these two pictures and examine them for a couple of minutes.
- I would then ask some questions about the pictures and probe students to come up with some of the results of the famine- for example the use of the irish language decreased.
- I would move on and ask the children to close their eyes and imagine they were a 12 year old child living during the famine. I would play a recording of a child's diary entry from the website irishpotatofamine.org.
- I would ask the students to write their own diary entry with the title 'A day in the life of a starving child...'
- After planning, drafting, editing and rewriting their diary entry I would get the students to make their page look aged by running a damp tea bag over them and crumpling them up. I would then anonymously swap their work with another child in the class and they would read 1 or 2 other diary entries before hanging them on a 'washing line' across the classroom'.
- >the workhouse>diary entries>Michael O'Kane
Recap:
Description: This is a glog I created with short facts and bullet points.
Teaching Ideas:
Casual group assessment: Carry out a table quiz in their groups of 4. Use the glog as a way of correcting the answers and summarising the main points they have learned about the famine.
Oral Language and memory work: Cover parts of the glog or one fact and ask the students what it said. Leading to a blank screen and as a class they must try and remember all the facts.
Teaching Ideas:
Casual group assessment: Carry out a table quiz in their groups of 4. Use the glog as a way of correcting the answers and summarising the main points they have learned about the famine.
Oral Language and memory work: Cover parts of the glog or one fact and ask the students what it said. Leading to a blank screen and as a class they must try and remember all the facts.