Ourselves, Science, Key Stage 1 Our Bodies An excellent lesson on naming the parts of the human body. Ourselves Science Clips For 5 - 6 year olds, this site looks at differences between living and non-living things, the names of the main body parts of humans and animals and how animals move in different ways. Healthy Eating A series of superb interactive screens which introduce children to healthy eating. Make a Balanced Plate Sort the foods on the plate to see which food groups they belong to. Unmuddle the Meals A drag and drop activity where meals are divided into their ingredients. A Healthy Lunchbox Select items for a healthy lunchbox by dragging and dropping the various foods. Farm to Fork Challenge A game where children see if they know the stages that food goes through from the farm to their plate. Sound and Hearing Science Clips Useful sorting activities where children can learn that sounds are generated in different ways and they vary in tone and loudness. Zapping Germs The Hand Washing Challenge Wearing Suncream
Arakwal People of Byron Bay Australian Indigenous tools and technology Warning. Australian Stories may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now deceased. Australian Stories also contain links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. The key to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander technologies is both their intimate understanding of the natural environment as well as their skills in designing artefacts that were flexible and adaptable. Tools and technology implements Ludo Kuipers, Louis Jupurrula making a 'karli' or boomerang in Lajamanu, a Warlpiri Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, 1981. Tools and implements reflect the geographical location of different groups. Aboriginal people achieved two world firsts with . Stone fish traps are used in rivers where water levels rise and fall. on the Darling River at Brewarrina are used to catch fish after rain. After , Aboriginal people quickly realised the advantages of incorporating metal, glass and ceramics. Weapons Spears
Thinkers Keys - Classroom Ideas Tony Ryan's Thinkers Keys Classroom Ideas:There are 20 different ‘Thinking Keys’ each designed to unlock different parts of the thinking process.The use of the keys helps to develop flexible problem solving and thinking habits.The thinking keys provide a flexible and dynamic way to engage students in further learning. They are a great way to do informal assessment during the unit for measuring student understanding.The students really enjoy the range of activities that the keys enable them to choose from and subsequently produce interesting and thoughtful work.There are many ways that the thinkers' keys can be integrated into the classroom to enhance the thinking of the students: Warm up Activities - Give the class one of the keys to work on for 5 to 10 minutes to get them thinking creatively before writing or before/after the bell. countries.Resources - The keys as seen in the picture on the right, can be printed off and laminated so they are child friendly.
Behind the News - Teachers - ESL Skip to Navigation | Skip to Content ABC Home | Radio | Television What is this pic? From deep space to deep inside the body, amazing images are created and probed in the name of science. Behind the News weekly transcripts are freely provided to assist in the development of comprehension, written and oral language skills. A new ESL work sheet is uploaded each Tuesday. Other weekly teaching ideas and student work sheets can be easily used with learners from non-English speaking backgrounds. These materials are uploaded each Tuesday morning during the BTN term dates. We also suggest you encourage your students to chat with other BTN viewers in the BTN Guestbook after viewing the program live, pre-recorded or via streaming video. Related Links Nexus - English BitesAn informative and entertaining way to improve your knowledge of the English language. English Club.comProvides quizzes, exercises and vocabulary work sheets for students. Help | Contact Us
Flexible (or facile) stage The flexible or facile counting stage is characterised by using number properties combined with number facts. Typically, flexible strategies can be described as using ‘this’ to work out ‘that’. A student may determine that 7 + 6 is 13 because double 6 is 12 (or double 7 is 14) and 7 + 6 is 1 more (or 1 less than double 7). However, recalling doubles alone is not sufficient to indicate that a student is able to use numbers flexibly. Flexible strategies make use of the properties of numbers and do not employ counting by ones. Flexible use of numbers Compensation is based on the idea of making adjustments to numbers so as to maintain a common difference in subtraction and the same total in addition. Compensation involving addition is different from compensation involving subtraction. Compensation involving subtraction requires adjusting both numbers by the same amount to keep the difference the same.
lapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine TIME and Space | By Jeffrey Kluger Editors note:On Nov. 29, 2016, Google released a major update expanding the data from 2012 to 2016. Read about the update here. Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Over here is Dubai, growing from sparse desert metropolis to modern, sprawling megalopolis. It took the folks at Google to upgrade these choppy visual sequences from crude flip-book quality to true video footage. These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve. Chapter 1: Satellite Story | By Jeffrey Kluger It’s a safe bet that few people who have grown up in the Google era have ever heard of Stewart Udall. 1 of 20 1 of 14 Full Screen 1 of 13
Five Times Dizzy Teacher Resource Field knowledge and context Building field knowledge Before reading Introduce Five Times Dizzy by Nadia Wheatley as a story about Mareka, a young girl who has migrated from Greece with her family, and her life in a multicultural community in an inner-city neighbourhood in Australia in the 1970s. What does migration mean? During reading Many aspects of the text may be unfamiliar to students and the following activities could be used to explore these as they present in the story. Forgotten Goats is a BTN story which gives a brief account of the place of goats in Australia's history. Exploring the context of the text The text was set in a contemporary time when it was first published in 1982, probably drawing on life from the 1970s, but it could be examined in a historical context today with young readers. If Mareka lived in our community today what would be the same? The text can also be explored in a cultural context, by examining the Greek way of life presented in the novel. Formative Summative