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This video aims to support the Australian Curriculum outcomes ACMNA 017: Recognise, describe and order Australian coins according to their value (Year 1) and ACMNA 034: Count and order small collections of Australian coins and notes according to their value (Year 2). During this video students will have the opportunity to order Australian coins and find how many ways they can add their silver coins together to make $1

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Short film for use in Year 1/2 classrooms. Australian Curriculum outcomes ACMNA017 Recognise, describe and order Australian coins according to their value (Year 1) and ACMNA034 Count and order small collections of Australian coins and notes according to their value (Year 2).

In this upcoming series, I will highlight apps useful for developing higher order thinking skills in grades K-5 classrooms. Each list will highlight a few apps that connect to the various stages on Bloom's continuum of learning. Given the size and current exponential growth of the app market, I will also assist educators in setting criteria necessary to identify apps that maintain the integrity of teaching for thinking.

On this website you can find interesting WEB2.0 applications. They are ordered in different categories that you can find in the menu on the left. These application are suitable in your classroom, in your school or at home. Some are handy, some are interesting, some just 4 fun. This collection is not and will never be complete. Every day new Web2.0 applications are developed.

The art of making information beautiful. How do you make statistics look interesting? According to the writer and designer David McCandless, you just need to apply the rules of visual design to information. David Sillito meets him and investigates the trend of applying the rules of visual design to information in order to help us cope with the oceans of data we are bombarded with.

The WebQuest was launched in 1995 to scaffold advanced cognition by integrating the "ill-structured" nature of the World Wide Web with a process that guides novices through decisions and experiences that characterize experts' behaviors. Recently, the Web has morphed into Web 2.0 with its social networking sites, blogs, wikis and podcasts. Given this richness, revisiting WebQuests is in order. This paper reviews the critical attributes of true WebQuests and reviews recent research in thinking routines and intrinsic motivation to recommend new paths for WebQuests that could scaffold student use of Web 2.0 environments, enabling a shift toward authentic personal learning.

Johnny Rabbit orders lunch from the school canteen and we follow how much change he gets

This is an numeracy based educational video on money. To appeal to an early primary years' age group we set the video in the school canteen using a toy bunny (Johnny Rabbit) in place of a child, which allows children to relate better to the character while exploring the concepts of money and numeracy (The Australian Curriculum Assessment And Reporting Authority) . (ACMNA017, ACMNA034, ACMNA059). This video could be used as an initial exploration into money, with the ability of delving into more in-depth questions as the students become proficient with the concepts.

Educ3625 A video that explores numeracy skills in everyday life. We used money, weight and time in order to organise our holiday to Bali.