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As a primary T/L I have found this website a great place for back-up material for teaching especially years 5 and 6. Lots of ideas-American but interesting.

Thanks for sharing the link, Lesley. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore for you.

This site provides the media and the general public with information about the Australia Telescope National Facility and educational resources on many aspects of astronomy. Link from Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) home page. http://outreach.atnf.csiro.au/ CensusAtSchool is a free Internet based data education research data, developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for Australian teachers and students.

'Developed by Education Services Australia through The Le@rning Federation, the education collection is designed to help teachers and students make the most of the wide range of moving image resources on the site. The clips in this collection are accompanied by teachers' notes created by specialist curriculum writers. Expert curators' notes also provide useful background material.' Clips are organised under headings such as 'war', 'identity and culture', 'sport and health'...a treasure trove!

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"Developed by Education Services Australia through The Le@rning Federation, the education collection is designed to help teachers and students make the most of the wide range of moving image resources on the site. The clips in this collection are accompanied by teachers' notes created by specialist curriculum writers. Expert curators' notes also provide useful background material. Clips in this collection have been selected for their educational value and any clips that are considered potentially disturbing carry clear classification warnings."

Information about Antarctica and Australia's presence in Antarctica.

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A quite interesting blog about using technology in Libraries and Education.

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I can spend hours on this site. Beautiful photography, interesting information, and great search functionality - everything an online journal could aspire to be.

Agreed Anne, its fantastic for adults and children alike. Thanks for sharing this. I've marked this assignment as complete on Lore for you.

Just recently discovered this site & its 7 Billion people special. Great stuff to use with students

A very comprehensive outline to evaluate websites by Berkeley University. Could be simplified for middle school students. 

Thanks for sharing this link, Rachel. I've marked Assignment 2 as complete on Lore for you.

This is a great tool for students to undertake their own investigations to retrieve and analyse specific information from the current census.

A fun way to explore Wikipedia articles.

Artcyclopedia - Information on artists and art movements. Painters, sculptors, photographers, decorative artists, and architects are listed. Links to museums.

This is fantastic, Marcia. Thanks for sharing. Marianne Macartney

Google search short cuts poster series (get googling)

We're sooo going to us this for our 5 min slot in staff meeting! Thanks for posting this Bev.

Have just added this to my library website very efficient skills delivery for students and staff who have a little time on their hands.

Jeff Utecht's blog entry about a novel way to teach students search skills. Give students and start and end point. Eg. 3rd Grade - give students: Rocks and Volcanoes. Start with Rocks and create a search story that gets them to end the search story with how Rocks and Volcanoes are related.

Google's created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond. Search Literacy lessons are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.

Ergo is a site containing a great deal of information about Victorian history, including digitised primary resources. It also has tips on research skills and essay writing.

Seems obvious but I find this an easy to use research tool for a variety of ages.

Improve your research, essay writing and study skills, explore Victoria's history, and access over 700 original primary sources you can use in your assignments.