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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Moodle is a very popular e-learning tool in universities and high schools. But what does it have to offer younger students who want a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle empowers teachers to achieve all this and more and this book will show you how! This book will show complete beginners in Moodle with no technical background how to make the most of its features to enhance the learning and teaching of children aged around 7-14. This is a practical book for teachers, written by a teacher with two decades of practical experience, latterly in using Moodle to motivate younger students. Its aim is to give you some hints and advice on how to get your Moodle courses up and running with useful content that your students will actually want to go and learn from on a regular basis. We will assume that you have an installation of Moodle managed by somebody else, so you are responsible only for creating and delivering course content. Throughout the book we will be building a course from scratch, adaptable for ages 7 to 14 on Rivers and Flooding It could be any topic, as Moodle lends itself to all subjects and ages.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds
Credits
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface

Chapter 5. Games

This chapter is all about having fun! Not only do our students enjoy playing games that help them learn, but often, we enjoy watching them play—for everyone it acts as a welcome change from the dry text-book work. The following games are from sites that offer free, or good value, games for educational purposes. Games appeal to younger children because of their animations, sound effects, and (in a couple of cases) rather cruel nature! We're going to enhance our units on river processes and flooding by using some easy-to-set-up games. For one of the games, Moodle can do the grading for us—so while the students are enjoying playing, Moodle is keeping our grade book updated.

In this chapter, we shall:

  • Test our students' knowledge of flooding terminology, with the help of a space-age hangman game.

  • Check the students' understanding of river processes, with the help of a dustbin sorting game.

  • Make the students split mountains from rivers with the help of a great noisy hammer.

  • Give...