Journeys in Education » Resources http://lisanecc.edublogs.org Ramblings on ICT, Education, Web 2.0, Christianity and Staff PD Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:47:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Junior School Great Web Resources http://lisanecc.edublogs.org/2009/07/10/junior-school-great-web-resources/ http://lisanecc.edublogs.org/2009/07/10/junior-school-great-web-resources/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:55:22 +0000 ldumicich http://lisanecc.edublogs.org/?p=147  Here is a selection of websites suitable for use in the Primary Curriculum. I have compiled them from the help of my own resourcea and the wonderful educators on the OZ-Teacher Mailing list. If you have any other great resources that are useful for the Primary years please add them in the comments.

 

Junior School All Ages

Wordle
www.wordle.net

Adrian Bruce website links to lots of good sites!
http://www.adrianbruce.com/computers/educational-software.htm

From very simple to very hard patterns and rotations
Build a Block

Great science website looking at animals and habitats
SwitcherooZoo

Put your face in photos (a lot of fun, not sure how educational)
http://www.photofunia.com/

Creating heroes to put in comics
http://cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory/

Stacks of lesson plans for all levels on literacy
http://www.readwritethink.org/

Loads of resources for the IWB (can be used on a normal computer too!)
http://www.copacabana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/Get_Smart_Pages/Get_Smart.htm

Lots of literacy activites to download. Some are not THRASS friendly but there is some that are!http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/cll/sea/

Times Tables Game with a Moon theme!
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/moonmaths.swf

Times Tables with a Fish Theme
http://www.multiplication.com/flash/PracticeFish.swf

 Grammar Ninja coz it’s cool!!
http://www.kwarp.com/portfolio/grammarninja.html

 Look, Cover, Write check Spelling
http://www.ictgames.com/lcwc.html

Wick Ed NZ website with lots of educational games
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/index.php

Lower Primary

Lots of games in many subject areas. Easy to play and suitab for either the PC or IWB
Toy Theater

THRASS friendly phonics website
Roy the Zebra

Hugely entertaining and educational!! Lots of different subject areas!
http://www.tvokids.com/ 

Upper Primary

Dance Mat Typing Tutor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

Clay Animator – for stop motion animation
http://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html

Free online brainstorming
www.bubbl.us

Andrea Mosaic – create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures.
http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/

]]> http://lisanecc.edublogs.org/2009/07/10/junior-school-great-web-resources/feed/ 5 Being a Bower Bird http://lisanecc.edublogs.org/2009/06/15/being-a-bower-bird/ http://lisanecc.edublogs.org/2009/06/15/being-a-bower-bird/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:02:45 +0000 ldumicich http://lisanecc.edublogs.org/?p=146 Here are some good websites that I have found that I need to put somewhere that wont get lost in amongst a whole heap of other links. So here they are!

QR Code for my website from Kaywa

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Curriculum 2.0 – A 21st century literacy curriculum

25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009

TED talks Demystyified for teachers Click here

23 “Techy” Tips for Not so “Techy” Teachers. Click here

100 Free online lectures that will make you a better teacher. Click here

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The game is very heavily based on physics and from what I could see the object was to solve puzzles using balls of goo and the Laws of Physics. The level the my husband and son were playing involved making a goo bridge to cross between two cliffs. How they built the bridge, if it had the right foundations, how they anchored it to the cliff and the amount of goo used all contributed to their success in completing the puzzle. Mr7 was totally engaged in this game and I could see his bridge building skill improving as he went along, he was making much more informed choices in where to place the goo for the bridge to stay up the more he played the game.

This would be excellent for school use! Obviously in Physics classes, Design Technology or Science, but also if you were entering your students into a bridge building competition which tend to roll around once or twice a year get them on this game first to get some conceptual idea first! The demo download should be enough for a class situation but the full game would be great for a lunchtime competition or exploring some more concepts fully. I think it would be appropriate for primary up to year 10 age levels.

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