Hartwell PS ICT

Children's Book Council of Australia site - great ideas for using literature in your class.

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

A primary level webquest relating to ecosystems and food chains.

Fantastic science website filled with complete lesson plans for teaching science experiments.

Balance scales by using blobs. 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 balances 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. Go on to balancing scales with black, white and grey blobs. This learning object is a combination of three objects in the same series. Students identify that one item can be used to represent a value of more than one. Students predict the numerical relationship (ratio) between two or three types of items. Students analyse number sentences and record the equivalent relations.

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.

Use the foul food maker to predict and test probability of events.

Great website to support the Audrey of the Outback text for bookweek 2009

A great website with lots of science experiments for kids and simple explanations about the science behind it.

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

A great literacy webquest for the text - Holes

Match the animal to their country of origin

Everything you need to know about food chains and food webs in easy to understand format and language. Many links to IWB activities

Fantastic Australian site about marine ecosystems - kid friendly language suitable for individual or group research.

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.

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

Simple grammar activities where students need to read the sentence and click on the relevant section eg noun, verb or adjective

Useful, kid-friendly information about biomes and eco-systems and the plants and animals that inhabit them.

FANTASTIC SITE for creating your own food web using IE Describes the difference between food chains and food webs. Scroll to part 2 at the bottom of the page and click on the "creating a possible food web" hyperlink