Classroom design recipe is a learning and teaching tool that aims to propose opportunities to rethink classroom space design in order to facilitate and support learning and influence innovative teaching practices. Additionally, Classroom Design Recipe inspire teachers to change, use and prepare the classroom space to support and facilitate learning activities.

1. Outside the Classroom
Virtually
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2. Why
Why use this card? Benefits classroom users’ will get
when they use this card:
• Motivating students and offering them
different learning experiences by taking
students outside the classroom space virtually.
• Stimulating students through different ways of
using available technology.
• Responding to students’ diverse learning styles
by using different teaching tools and
strategies, for example: responding to visual
learning styles using images with projectors;
responding to auditory learning styles by
playing music, bird sounds and other sounds
using sound systems; and responding to kinetic
learning styles by creating movement in the
space by playing with the teaching tools.
• Turning elements from nature into a teaching
tool.
• Bringing real natural elements, such as
birds, leaves and an indoor fountain, inside the
classroom space.
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There are many ways to apply this card which is
about taking students outside the classroom
virtually. Here are three examples:
1. Create a cinema mood
2. Go to an imaginary world
3. Travel to diverse environments
1. Create a cinema mood: using a projector,
computer and sound system, the teacher can play
educational movies. Diverse interesting
educational movies and videos are available, such
as: National Geographic education
(http://education.nationalgeographic.co.uk/st/?ar_a=4),
YouTube education
(http://www.youtube.com/education) and You Tube
teachers (http://www.youtube.com/teachers).
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Diverse interesting educational movies and videos are
available, such as:
Examples of how to create a cinema mood
National Geographic education
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YouTube Education
YouTube Teachers
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In addition, teachers can enhance the cinema
mood learning experience with popcorn and
cinema tickets. Cinema tickets can be used as a
teaching tool where teachers can write questions
for students to think about while watching the
movie. After answering them, teachers can display
the cinema tickets on classroom walls.
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Applying the cinema mood idea in the classroom
space
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2. Go to an imaginary world: using a projector,
computer and sound system, teachers can play
videos (e.g. cartoons and movies that stimulate
students). These can take students into an
imaginary world and be taught there. Also,
teachers can create teaching tools using elements
from a movie, using characters and objects from
the film to support the curriculum.
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For example: Using a Harry Potter movie, teachers
can use the idea of working in groups in the Harry
Potter movie to support cooperative teaching
strategies.
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Furthermore, teachers can replace paper teaching
tools with the probes used in this movie, such as
using Harry Potter’s
hat, broom, glasses, map, secret letter and other
probes as teaching tools.
Each one of these probes can support
teachers’ teaching strategies differently . For
example:
• The hat: The teacher can put a specific
request related to her/his curriculum in the
hat, hide it and ask students to look for the
hat under the staircase or any space
outside classroom. When they find it, they
must do what the hat asks them to do.
• The broom: The teacher can hang the
broom from the ceiling with questions for
students to answer after they find the
broom with their name on.
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• Harry Potter’s glasses: The teacher can use
Harry Potter’s glasses to add more drama to
his/her teaching strategy. She/he can tell
students, “By wearing these glasses you will
be ready for this mission”.
• The map: The teacher can display the map on
the wall and an use the map to turn the
teaching instructions into a game.
• Secret letters: The teacher can hide letters
under the table and tell them, “Under your
tables there is a secret letter with a secret
mission for you to do”. This will help the
teacher to turn paper questions into a game.
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3. Travel to diverse environments: using a
projector, computer and sound system, teachers
can take students virtually to other environments
and teach them there by displaying images from
diverse environments such as under the sea, in
the garden, sky and beach.
Take students virtually to other environments, and
teach them there by displaying images from diverse
environments such as:
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Applying travel to the diverse environment idea
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Additionally, teachers can utilise different elements of
the chosen environment to support their teaching
strategies. Also, they can create teaching probes using
elements from the chosen environment.
Applying travel to the idea of diverse environments in
the classroom space
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For example, teachers can use images from a garden
and use elements such as birds and an indoor fountain
to bring real garden sounds inside the classroom
space. Leaves and twigs can be used as teaching tools
from which teachers can hang cards, letters and boxes.
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Create a cinema mood
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Go to an imaginary world
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Travel to diverse environments
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