Research toolkit 2013

YouTube clip from Washington University Library

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Renewable energy, All the ABC Splash

Emaze might be a tool worth investigating if you are seeking to create interesting presentations

It's worth a look

Google forms are a great tool and can be used in many ways and are useful for creating quizzes or surveys. Richard Byrne has written a good post that explains how to set up a cut-off time or limit the number of responses to a google form. responses

Google forms are a great tool and can be used in many ways and are useful for creating quizzes or surveys. Richard Byrne has written a good post that explains how to set up a cut-off time or limit the number of responses to a google form. responses

Another interesting option from Google. Create a quiz or survey for your class and send them the QR code to find it. It looks simple and has a video, created by high school students, to help explain how it works

This is a fabulous place to visit and an amazing array of information about Antarctica and the tragic history of Tasmanian indigenous people.

Information about aboriginal cultural heritage in Victoria.

Interesting article giving valid reasons for not supporting Google

Interesting document used to support the educational importance and foundation on which K-3 database, PebbleGo, was founded. A good read. AND the database really is superb for these ages.

Learn Chinese or find Chinese books to buy them.

Learn Chinese or find Chinese books to buy them.

I find the department has some good tools for students to use to research, especially FUSE. I find the information appropriate for the students in my grade.

From Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching by Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes. Copyright 2011 by The Guilford Press. All rights reserved. It A very useful and accessible explanation of the phase of explicit instruction in the e5 model. The chapter explores the underlying principles of explicit instruction, the evidence supporting this and also the concerns about explicit teaching,.

Wonderful new site from our National Archives and the NZ Archives, with profiles of every person who enlisted in WW1, and encouraging people to post their own stories about those Anzacs.