Week 4

Dust Echoes

Dust Echoes is a series of 12 animated dreamtime stories, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. In our workshop I watched ''Mermaid Story'' and then used Inspiration and Paint to copy and paste the images. I put these images in sequence order and used sentences from the study guide provided on the website.

Below is my final piece that i created in Inspiration.

This activity would be useful for VELS level 4 as they can 'improve the appearance of a finished product' (VELS level 4) by using different tools and techniques. By practising cutting, pasting and editing pictures and writing, students will gain a better understanding of how these tools work.

M &Ms and Microsoft Excel

Next we looked at M&Ms and how we can use them to create tables and charts on Microsoft Excel. The M&Ms website (www.m-ms.com/us) has tables which provide information (percentages) about energy, sodium etc in each packet of M&Ms (ie: nutrition panels). Students can use this website to further investigate the percentages of each ingredient in the chocolate, which can lead to a maths lesson.

We did an activity, where we had a packet of M&Ms and we had to create a frequency table of the different colours of the M&Ms found in the packet. First we created this frequency table in Microsoft Excel and then we created a bar graph. Students will find this computer program easy to use and navigate.

Below is the frequency table and bar graph that I created: