Build the diagram while you explain it. The water cycle assembles itself on the board, the numbers count up, and nobody has to squint at a printout.
One idea per piece, built in the order you would say it out loud.
Parts arrive one at a time, so a class watches it being made rather than staring at a finished picture.
How the class did, in something a parent can open on a phone.
Not screenshots. Each of these is a real piece, drawn in your browser by the same thing that will draw yours.
It has been doing this for about four billion years.
Cubic km evaporated a year
Days a drop spends in the air
Of it is in the sea
Is fresh and reachable
A lesson that builds itself on the board
Average grade
Up from 5.1 in the autumn
Results without a spreadsheet
Borrowing has climbed every month since the refit.
Books borrowed this year
Up 41% on the year before
A library year, told as a line
Nucleus
Keeps the instructions and hands out copies.
Mitochondria
Turns sugar into the energy everything else spends.
Ribosomes
Read the instructions and build proteins from them.
Membrane
Decides what gets in and what stays out.
The parts, and what each one does
Autumn term
Spring term
Nothing else changed. We moved the day, and a third of the problem went away.
One change, measured
People in the city by AD 100
Aqueducts feeding it
Seats in the Colosseum
Km of road, end to end
753 BC — a village on a hill
A few hundred people beside a river crossing.
312 BC — the first aqueduct
Water arrives, and the city can finally grow.
AD 80 — the Colosseum opens
Room for a twelfth of the city at once.
AD 410 — the walls are breached
The first time in eight hundred years.
A history lesson with a spine
Figures are illustrative and the organisations are invented. The pieces are not.
Free to start, no card needed, and nothing to install at either end.
