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An interactive activity about settling in Ainslie. Key Learning Objectives: Students investigate the stories of individuals and groups of people who moved to Australia. Students describe a range of effects that migration has on people. Students identify strategies migrants use to maintain links with the past. Educational Value: Describes how migrants have adapted to life in Australia and maintained links with their original culture. Illustrates artefacts associated with migrants from a range of countries. Includes graphics contrasting architectural styles and interior decorations between 1838 and 2003. Encourages students to explore, synthesise and interpret information from a range of sources. Illustrates a range of experiences and attitudes using fictional characters. Provides a printable worksheet with key graphics and the student's responses to questions about the migrants' experiences.

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.\

Interactive activity using sport races to provide times (decimal) to work out mean, median and range. Could be used on single computers with students or IWB.

Range of Maths games for IWB or online.

Range of games for literacy on the IWB or online.

Explore ways of representing decimals using mathematical notation and visual tools. Match a decimal fraction between 0 and 1 such as 0.7. Adjust units on a range of visual scales and other representations. Work with a random selection of two of these representations: common fraction, number line, counting frame, dial, array and pie chart. Match at least three decimals with each tool. This learning object is one in a series of nine objects.

A great range of fraction games that progress from easy levels of creating fractions up to adding fractions and creating mixed numbers.

A wide range of maths games to suit most levels of middle and upper primary school focussing on all areas of the maths curriculum.

Short explanation videos, activities and interactive games across a wide range of topics. (some videos require subscription)

A range of interactive Literacy games and activities to improve English Skills (focusing on writing genres: fairytales, procedural text, letters, recounts, similies, narratives, dialogues, plays, poetry, newspapers, proverbs)

A range of Literacy games and activities for kids to help improve literacy skills (grammar & punctuation focus)

A range of Literacy Games and Activities to improve spelling

A range of tutorials demonstrating how to use different features in Easiteach.

Range of interactive activities to teach fractions, decimals and percentages

This site enables children to create a character, then record a message for the character to read out. Watch out though, if there are any spelling mistakes etc... what you wanted you character to say ends up sounding a little bit odd! Interesting to include in a range of literacy activities.

range of geometry games for independent and IWB.

Range of activities for teaching about angles and using a protractor.

A great website for student directed learning across a range of subjects. The animated interactive lessons are simple to understand and fun to complete.

A wide range of interactive activities relating to grammar, spelling and different parts of speech.

Great, short videos of palentologists talking about dinosaurs. A written transcript is available beneath the video. Suitable to a range of literacy activities.