{"id":3970,"date":"2011-05-18T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T23:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2012-10-24T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T17:49:09","slug":"using-angry-birds-to-teach-math-history-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/?p=3970","title":{"rendered":"Using Angry Birds to teach math, history and science"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday instead of dutifully writing a blog post, I was having fun building catapults with kids.\u00a0 I was playing with a transdisciplinary lesson using Angry Birds<\/a> as my inspiration.\u00a0 Yes, you read correctly-Angry Birds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t seem to matter what age group or demographic that I talk to, kids (and adults) everywhere are fans of Angry Birds<\/a>. As I was playing around with Angry Birds (yep I’m a fan too), I started thinking about all of the learning that could be happening.\u00a0 I have watched a two year old tell an older sister that “you have to pull down to go up higher”.\u00a0 I have watched as kids master this game through trial and error.\u00a0 Being the teacher that I am, I started dreaming up a transdisciplinary lesson with Angry Birds <\/a>as the base.<\/p>\n

I happened to be writing an inquiry lesson that has students look at inventions throughout time and thought: the catapult-that is an invention that has technology and concepts that are used even today.\u00a0 This is one of those inspirational moments that comes when you are drifting off to sleep and has you frantically searching for paper and pen to record as fast as the ideas come.\u00a0 So what did I do? I got myself out of bed and went to work sketching out a super awesome plan.<\/p>\n

Here is the embedded learning that I came up with:<\/p>\n