from Bhangra to Bagpipes

1. from Bhangra to Bagpipes

2. Clyde is the mascot for Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, 2014, and Shera was the mascot for Delhi’s Commonwealth Games, 2010. Clyde visits Shera in Dehli and learns about the Commonwealth Games.

3. Learning Experience A Note Making

4. Clyde has a digital tablet which he uses to record notes on all he sees and hears and he asks learners to help him gather information and create a presentation. Clyde is not certain of the best way to make notes so he uses this website. http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/studyskills/secondthirdlevel/remember/NoteMaking/resources/index.asp

5. Sherashows Clyde a video of the opening ceremony in Delhi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J92P1u443qY Shera then tells Clyde all about the many festivals which take place in India. Festival websites: http://bhangratobagpipes.blogspot.co.uk Diwali: http://www.diwali2012.in Holi: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/holydays/holi_1.shtml Ganesha: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/holydays/ganesh.shtml Clyde asks the pupils, back in Scotland, to find out about the opening ceremony in Dehli, Indian festivals and Scottish festivals to help them get ideas for the Glasgow Opening Ceremony 2014. Scotland’s History: http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandshistory/index.asp

6. festivals

7. http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/index.htm Rangoli

8. Diwali Ravana

9. Learning Experience B Research-Countries

10. Clyde knows that India is a Commonwealth country and is keen to find out about it and other countries who will be visiting Scotland in 2014. Clyde researches these using a variety of sources and learns about aspects such as, flags, location, capital cities, etc. and asks learners to help him create a Commonwealth quiz. Commonwealth Flags How many flags can you recognise?

11. World Map Add your research information to the map.

12. Learning Experience C Research-Sports and Questionnaire

13. Research Shera explains to Clyde that hockey is a sport in the Commonwealth Games, 2014, and is very popular in India. Clyde wants to find out more and asks learners to help him research the sport using a variety of sources including the field hockey pitch in Smart Notebook. Research, creating notes and summaries, to find out about hockey and other sports in the Commonwealth Games. Use the Smart Notebook hockey pitch to learn more about this sport. Move players into their starting positions. Create your own pitch for a different sport.

15. Clyde wants to ask learners about their favourite sports in the Commonwealth Games and decides to create a questionnaire. He asks learners to help him create different types of questions and compile an online questionnaire using Survey Monkey. He suggests that this could be given to other learners’ own schools or sent to other local, national or partner school in Commonwealth countries. Once all the responses have been gathered, the analysis can be entered into a table and/or graph.

16. Presentation Clyde has gathered all the information on his digital tablet. He has made notes. researched. found main ideas. summarised. designed an online questionnaire and made a table or graph of responses. He asks learners to help him create a presentation to share this information!

17. Presentation Ideas • Use ‘Comic Life’ to create your own comic strip • Use ‘Scratch’ to create a • computer game. • Use ‘Frames’ or ‘I can animate’ • to make your very own • animation. • Create a PowerPoint or Prezi • presentation.

18. Thanks to Shera, Clyde is able to invite children, parents and the local community to show all he has learned from his trip to India and possibilities for Commonwealth Games 2014.