Snapshot of 21st Century Learning
Term 4 - Week 3
English:
Responding To Literature - A new Syllabus Bites resource
Visual Literacy - A new Syllabus Bites resource
Creating Multimodal Texts - The link to this resource has been corrected!! This is another new Syllabus Bites resource, a must to view.
Liz Bradley, Shelley PS, has shared her Accelerated Literacy Unit on You and Me: Our Place by Leonie Norrington.
Maths:
Teaching Data - Stage 3 Dot Points - A resource support document aimed to build teacher capacity to develop students' understanding of the features and the appropriate use of the dot point graph.
Teaching Fractions - A Primary Concern - A support document on teaching fractions.
A Process For Planning a Unit of Work - Mathematics K-10. There is also Planning For Progamming With Concepts in English
The staff of The Junction PS has shared their Maths programming documents
The Greater Kengal Network of Small Schools have shared their Maths Programming documents. Please note all stages are embedded into each term. This is an excellent resource for P6 and P5 schools to review.
Resources - English
The highly effective A Sentence A Day program has been added to the site
Literacy Continuum Threads - Shared by Gayle Pinn of the Greater Kengal Network of Small Schools
Ad Campaign - From Scootle - Activity
The Lost Thing - Shaun Tan - Book Rap
Fearless - Colin Thompson - Book Rap
Fearless - Prezi - Created by Angela Pusz
Read Works - Provides extensive lesson worksheets, ideas, and lesson plans K-6
Story Telling page - resources and ideas to support Story Telling
Teaching Reading - Comprehension Strategies
Applying Web's Depth of Knowledge to Blooms - matrix
Information Literacy and Narrative Structure Lessons Blog - Yr7 created by Victor Davidson, located in the High School blog section.
Maths:
Count Me In Too - all the CMIT resources in Smart Notebook
Graphing online resources - creating pictographs, bar and pie graphs, reading graphs and excellent, simple graph maker.
Maths Study Jams - Online resources for all areas of Maths
Colouring Squared - Learn Maths concepts whilst having fun - 4 operations, place value, fractions, percentages, decimals etc
Dad's Worksheets - A worksheet generator, very extensive
Cross Curriculum
Global Worlds - New Curriculum based units of work and resources
Our Asian Stories - DEC resource and World News
Aboriginal Teaching Resources - Additional resources have been added, which includes a 2nd Larrakia Calendar and Dreaming Stories and Science.
Target 100 -Sustainable sheep and cattle farming through the implementation of 100 initiatives.
iPads + Apps
Maths Apps page has been created, a small select group of apps. If you are using a quality app in your class, email me and I will add it to the page.
If you are looking for a particular try google search, there are thousands for you to select from.
Additional Book Creator, Picture Editor, Movie Creator and Problem Solving apps have been added to the iPad App page. Plus a great free AR app, which allows students to program a robot. A Spin and Win app which encourages good behaviour and allows "spin" rewards to be programmed.
New Scheme Teachers
Debbie Ross - Accreditation + the unofficial NST Accreditation Guide - webinar
Applying For A Teaching Position - A a very thorough webinar that outlines all aspects of applying for a teaching position.
Web 2.0 Tools
Timeline Maker - Very simple to use and understand
Pin Words - Add words to a picture and save the jpeg. Very easy to use.
Blogs
Interested in BlogEd? Watch how teachers are using it in their classroom.