a Flash based website with interactive manipulatives that students and teachers can use to introduce or reinforce maths concepts. It is suitable for students from Kindergarten to Year Eight.
This site is very simple to use (mostly drag and drop) and requires very little preparation.
You simply choose a background from the collection of Game Boards, Story Boards or Work Mats. Work Mat options include place value mats, tens frames, graph paper, algebra tiles, in and out equation tables, blank calendars, number lines and number charts.
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.\
