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A series of videos by an American dietician clearly explaining how to read an ingreadients and nutrition panel. The information is American based and needs to be added to for Australian audiences but is a helpful starting point for children learning about how to select healthy foods.

Input the names and then The Hat will randomly draw names from the Hat - just like it says!Input the names and then The Hat will randomly draw names from the Hat - just like it says!

Great child related, child language current affairs program. Short, interesting and detailed news reports. Great for note taking and reporting composing.

interactive games, activities, lesson plans and worksheets relating to fractions, decimals and percentages (suitable for all primary levels)

An interactive game about digital and analogue time: match the digital and analogue clock times as quickly as you can to stop the clock

Children learn about Parliament, Politics and Government trough fact sheets, quizes and information packs.

Great touch typing tutorials. Easy to complete tests and lessons to increase your typing speed and touch typing abilities.

Just like power point only a tad more exciting! Easy to use and very popular with children. Just be careful, there are a few pop up adds, and when children have to chose a song to accompany their presentation, selection will need to be carefully monitored.

This site is filled with loads of challenges which will engage students of all ages. In each game their is a problem to solve, and children are timed on how quickly they can do it. All games are fully interactive and don't take long to load. Just be careful which you pick as some are quick tricky. More suited to upper school.

Intereactive activities and videos about different systems and body parts.

Website shows and tests the different between acute and obtuse angles.

A great interactive site with information on animals, rainforest layers, coffee, chocolate and also what it is like to live near a rainforest. Plenty of information and games for students to try.

Put blocks (or balls) into the cups on the scales to make them balance, using the number rules A = B + C and A + B = C + D. Use your knowledge of addition and multiplication to help you work out how many blocks you need in each cup. Finish the number sentence to show an equal number of blocks on each side. This learning object is a combination of three objects in the same series.

Balance scales by using blobs. Using unit ratios, such as 1:3, 2: 1 or 1:4, explore how many black blobs and white blobs balance each other. Discover the rule that balances the scales with the correct number and type of blobs. For example, 2 black blobs balance 1 white blob. Find out how many black blobs balance 2 white blobs. Build a number pattern. Then use the rule to solve a problem by moving blobs to make the scales balance. This learning object is the first in a series of three learning objects.

Students work on practical problems in which the complexity of computations extends to include addition and subtraction of three-digit numbers, multiplication by single digits, and division by a single-digit number using arrays.

Great information about the animals and plants that live in differnt biomes and where these biomes are found on the planet.

Click on the cross-section of the pond to find out more about the animals and plants that live there and how they interact

Help to write articles for a local newspaper. Investigate community attitudes to a development planned for a local park. Look at development plans for the site. Interpret graphs showing results of a public opinion poll. In this scenario, the community is in favour of the proposed development. This learning object is one in a series of five objects.\n\nThe purpose of this learning object is for:\n\nStudents to decode a range of texts which state a position on the same topic. \nStudents to construct literal and inferential meaning from exposition texts. \nStudents to consider the position taken by a range of texts on the same topic. \nStudents to identify how textual choices contribute to how texts convey a point of view. \nStudents to identify bias and author's viewpoint in texts. \nStudents to use logical reasoning to match an author with a particular text.\

Could be used for a range of activities. Select letters and students could make words with those letters, or set task how many words can you make with a 'tion' ending for example. Words can be sent to and stored in a wordbank once created.

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? from the TV show. SIgn up and the children and you can play it on the IWB last 5 minutes of the day or a great beginning of the day activity. Actual questions from the show.

A wet- day time table day winner!