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To help nourish the young minds, there is nothing better than the wall art for kids. The visual brilliances epitomises child friendliness. It's no wonder that baby wall art or nursery art finds a place in the hearts of the growing ones. The little ladies in particular will be overjoyed with the girls wall art range.

like wall wisher, post stickies to a wall to share and brainstorm

Site that allows you to create your own wall posters; you can download them in PDF for printing.

Great inspiring quotes, especially for classrooms

Part of the problem is that professional development, both pre-service and in-service, does little to build teachers' understanding of how their discipline is used, singularly and in combination with others, to help solve problems and innovate beyond school walls. It's the rare geometry teacher who knows how architects, carpenters, bricklayers, and tile setters use the 3-4-5 triangle in construction technology. 

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website that allows students to create and publish animations in a walled environment

Wall of Words game

Part 1 of 100 Web Tools to enhance Collaboration

There are only so many discovery science lessons I can teach my students in the confines of my classroom. Luckily, I found a way to allow my class to explore beyond the classroom walls by collaborating with real world science professionals.

walled garden blogging tool

Free Red Paint Splash PPT template has a splatter of red on the wall to gift it an artistic touch. Feel free and express your artistic side with this design. Know how to cover a wall with red paint and how to change the color of your room.

 If the young people of today are to thrive beyond the walls of the classroom they will need to be able to cope with a world characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The children of todays Kindergarten will enter the workplace in the fourth-decade of the 21st Century. We debate the merits of teaching 21st Century Skills and what they might be while teaching children who have lived their entire lives in that very century. The challenge is how will schools and individual teachers respond to this drive for urgent change.

All learning is a consequence of thinking. I have these words printed and posted on the wall above my desk. It is a reminder of what I believe is a vital understanding. The consequences of this one statement are quite profound. They fundamentally shape what I do as an educator and the experiences I hope to create for my learners.

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." ― Calvin Coolidge Growing up, I had a copy of this quote on my wall. It is one of those things that stuck with me over the years. For a long time I might not have truly appreciated its wisdom. Now as a teacher in times of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, its significance seems to have grown. When we can instantaneous consumers of the all of the worlds information, as we access anything and everything at the speed of light, how do we learn the value of persistence?

create a fake facebook profile, great for student projects for literature or historical figures