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Fingerphone review

May 8th, 2009

Reviewer: Adam Little

worst polluted cities

Sep 24th, 2008

I used this website with year 9 mixed ability as part of a using chemistry module. Students were fully engaged and interested in the information . The language used was quite difficult but students asked sensible questions and produced a good summary of projects involvinf air pollution and sulphur dioxide. The plenary consisted of a discussion about why people would live there and whether 'rich nations' had a duty of care to help

Reviewer: Kelly Susan

finger phone

Jun 19th, 2008

Great fun with my bottom set Yr8 for sound. It was used as a pleanary at the end of a lesson on sound traveling through diff. mediums. A challenging bunch but they enjoyed this.

Reviewer: susan humphreys

Fingerphone review

Nov 26th, 2007

Reviewer: Andrew Jones

Fingerphone review

Dec 5th, 2006

I used this as a quick starter activity with my top set year 8 class. They not only enjoyed it but it provided some relevant data that we used to talk about the reliability of data and how to improve an investigation (stretching it out into a quite long starter activity. But well worth the effort.)
Our Languages AST was observing the lesson and couldn't believe the quality (and quantity) of resources available through the upd8 site- and felt a bit envious (to say the least)

Reviewer: Andy Molloy

fingerphone

Oct 1st, 2006

this was an easy activity to carry out and understand, that stimulated discussion about the topic and the experimental design. I would reccomend that it is at least worth a try.

Reviewer: Alastair Hilton

Fingerphone!!

May 22nd, 2006

I loved this idea! THe links to the website were fab, as was the CBBC video clip (although slightly poor quality). The studetns were very engaged by this point!

They thought it was a joke at first, then as i explained the science behind it, they were amazed! Think this would work well over a double lesson, to give sufficient time to cover all aspects.

The actual experiment gave varying results, although they enjoyed sticking their fingers in their ears and banging on the tables!! (this was more effective than the suggested 'scratching'). Thank you :)

Reviewer: Rysia Kaminski

Fingerphone

May 9th, 2006

I used this activity with a bottom set year 8, with a large number of pupils with SEN. I found that the first part of the activity and the activity sheet were great at getting the pupils engaged. I got results which i helped them to do some analysis on and we have yet to conclude our - suggested improvements or potential drawbacks of the phone. The activity sheets for the second part were slightly too high a level, but i managed to work around the basic principles in this sheet - recommend trying it!

Reviewer: Colin Devlin

Extension

Jan 4th, 2006

Great idea, simply packaged.

Add some metal coathangers on strings, poke finger & string in ear and hit coathanger with metal object. Show that sound travels great in solids.

Reviewer: Glen Gilchrist

Fingerphone

Jun 22nd, 2005

Activity began with a good experiment to show that you can actually hear things through your finger. Children enjoyed the whole activity and really began thinking about possible problems and advantages of this new phone. CBBC article from links provided more little bits of information about the phone.

Reviewer: Jennifer Calvert

finger phone

Jun 8th, 2005

The activity sheet began with a simple experiment involving the conduction of sound through a solid. the students were keen to try this out and were actively engaged - brilliant.
The upper group of students were ready for more data / technical information than was supplied but it was a good starting point and the discussion that followed was really interesting. My year 8 group (middle set ) really enoyed it and it even worked well as "set work" when i was out of school for a meeting! Thankyou.

Reviewer: heather west

Finger Phone

Apr 15th, 2005

Good way of showing the science applied to life. Pupils found that their experimental results didnt match the theory and thus the exercise became pointless for them. Reinforced theory of sound being transmitted in solids better than air.

Reviewer: Niall Boyle

Fingerphone

Mar 30th, 2005

Children enjoyed something new, they understood the topic well. this was a high ability set - the activity was pitched at this ability and would require plenty of foundation work for lower ability students.

Reviewer: Jennifer Wallington

Fingerphone review

Mar 21st, 2005

Kids really enjoyed it and really understood the topic. Brighter

Reviewer: zOE Wood