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Finding your way around the Internet
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Click on this
SOFWeb link and explore the site. List 5 things you found useful and why. Must visits
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| Search Engines | |
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Go Eureka is a
search engine. Scroll down the page to Help Me - Search Tips Use the strategies listed to research sites about space eg space +X -Y (where X and Y are key words)
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| Space | |
Comet's Tale
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Browse these space
sites then select one to report to the group about the following
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More Space Sites |
| Work and Leisure | |
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Visit the Knox Site
Use your search skills to find more sites to use in this unit of work
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| The Olympics | |
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Browse these two
sites then use a simple Venn Diagram to record similarities and differences between
the olympics of ancient times and today.
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| Action Plan Week 1 |
With a partner, or in a small group, choose a site to use in your classroom program. Together plan...
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Week 2 Using Internet Data Bases and Interactive Sites
| Internet Data Bases | |
 Museum of Victoria http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/education/ |
Follow
the Ed online links to Global Classrooms. Explore the links from Flying Colors to Phar
Lap.
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| Interactive Sites | |
| Problem Solving | |
The puzzlemaker http://www.puzzlemaker.com |
This sites gives you the opportunity to create your own puzzles and games. Create a cryptogram for your unit of work to use in your class. |
 Fun Brain http://www.funbrain.com/ |
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Illusion works http://www.illusionworks.com World of Escher http://www.worldofescher.com/
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Visit the world of
Illusions and click on the interactive demonstration. Take a tour of these spatially
inconsistent and paradoxical shapes and gain insights as to how the brain interprets 3-D
versus 2-D images. Choose one of the illusions and describe what is wrong with the image. |
| Interactive Tours | |
Guardian's Egypt http://guardians.net/egypt/ |
Go on an interactive cyber tour of some of the most interestings sites of ancient Egypt. |
| Live Cameras | |
| Discovery School Animal Cams http://animal.discovery.com/ | Click on the Animal Cam to see live, real time animals in action. |
| Story Writing | |
The Case for Kids http://www.thecase.com/kids/
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Write a mini-mystry and enter the Mysterious Writing Contest. |
| Music | |
Play Music http://www.playmusic.org |
Explore the many dimensions of an orchestra. Click on the sections of the orchestra and listen to the music. |
| Arts and Design | |
Your name in Hieroglyphics http://www2.torstar.com/rom/egypt/ |
Find out how to write a family member's name in hieroglyphics and then using the paper provided design a piece of jewellery with that name. |
| Art and Design | |
Your name in Hieroglyphics http://www2.torstar.com/rom/egypt/ |
Find out how to write a family member's name in hieroglyphics and then using the paper provided design a piece of jewellery with that name. |
| Health | |
Eat Well for Kids http://www.healthyeating.org/kids/ |
Research, do an
online quiz or email a nutritionalist (What's a nutritionalist?)
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| Maths | |
Baseball Maths http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html Plane Maths http://www.planemath.com/ Ask Dr Math http://mathforum.com/dr.math/ |
Take the Maths Challenges |
| Science | |
Bill Nye the Science Guy http://disney.go.com/DisneyTelevision/BillNye/ SOFweb Steps Site http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/steps/index.htm |
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| Action Plan Week 2 |
Choose one site to use in your classroom program, either from the list we explored today or one of your own. At our next session demo the site to the group and explain how it was used in your class.
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Week 3 Collaborative Projects and Email
| The Talkback Classroom | In
this activity you are forwarding on researched questions through the Internet to a group
of students who will be interviewing a prominent Australian on ABC radio.
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| The Environmental Mystery Competition | This
activity uses a previous Environmental Mystery Competition concerned with the
disappearance of a platypus. Each group is to read the first two parts of the
Environmental Mystery Competition, then brainstorm and record as many reasons why the
platypus may have disappeared.
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| Interactive Mathematical Resource for Busy Teachers | In
this activity, groups are to solve a maths problem and enter their answers. After solving
the problem, discuss how you may involve students in the coordination of this project.
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| The Teddy Bear Project | In this activity, each group is to consider the scenario of
exchanging a teddy bear with a school in the Eastern European country, Latvia.
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| Questionnaire | Groups
discuss and record their comments to statements and questions.
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Follow
the link to do the Global Classroom
Quick Quiz Online.
Browse the range of collaborative project sites and review one that you could use in your classroom.
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| Email
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What works for me ~ Using Technology in the Classroom. The aim of this activity is to gather a complete list with each person's great idea for using technology in the classroom. |
| Action Plan Week 3 |
Introduce the students in your class to a collaborative project then report back to the PD group. Remember you don't have to have all children participating individually. Why not submit a class response? |
Week 6 Email and Intranet development
Microsoft Outlook
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You can attach to your message any work files, eg .doc .bmp .xls .jpeg To attach a file to you message
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Using the Global Address List
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Adding names to your Address Book
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Creating a Personal Distribution List
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