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Inquiry Support Sites
__** Websites to support teaching and learning. **__

** Have fun exploring and playing! **

Website of the fortnight

No set websites this term - take some time to go back and revisit some from earlier in the year or explore and find your own new ones to share!
 * Term Four 2010 **

**Week One**: educational wikis **Week three:** running the numbers **Week Five**: Committed Sardine - 100 ways to use social media in the classroom complete with ideas and examples. **Week Seven:** Story on line Lots of stories and related activities for teaching and learning. Learn English More stories, songs, listening activities etc to support teaching and learning of literacy. (More junior school focussed.) Scholastic News Scholastic News is a news site for Kids. It's an American site but contains international news.
 * Term Three 2010 **

__**Week Eleven**:__ **Teaching that makes sense**
 * Term Two 2010 **
 * __Week one:__ www.edhelper.com **
 * __Week thre__e: @http://www.gruffalo.com/index.html **
 * __Week five__ : Sumdog **
 * __Week Seven:__ Lego Digital Design **
 * __Week Nine:__ Toystory3 **


 * Term one 2010 **
 * __Week three:__ sparklebox.co.uk **
 * __Week five:__ primarygames.com **
 * __Week seven:__ @http://www.awesomeclipartforkids.com/ **
 * __Week nine:__  www.primarygames.com/holidays/easter/easter.htm **

__Teacher Resources:__
Sparkle Box Teaching resources and learning activities galore! Starfall.com A free site for reading games, activities and printables / photocopiables Ambleside Primary School All sorts of information, ideas and links for teaching, learning and development Kurwongbah State School All sorts of information, ideas and links for teaching, learning and development Eduplace Eduplace site with resources for teachers, features and current events for students and a section for families Teacher stuff Online resources and templates for teachers Awesome Clip Art for Kids Wordfinds, crosswords, resources, colouring pages etc etc etc Educational Software A wikispace with great ideas and inspiration for using __Comic Life__ along with other awesome ideas, supports etc. Software for Learning Check this out for some great ideas in using __Comic Life__ and __Flickr__ to create awesome mihi, language learning etc. Library events calendar All those 'themed' weeks - want to know when they are? click here to the library calendars etc Smart Kids Maths site for parents, students and teachers. Free to join, loads of games, resources etc. Netrover Great site for teachers with resources, games and __Smartboard__ / IWB activities Jenny Eather Writing fun ideas, resources you name it. Edhelper.com Thinking skill templates and layouts all free to download and print, along with many other teaching and learning resources. SHAPES good site for 2d and 3d shapes, has models that move and nets. Speeches using ICT Meredith Buchanan - speeches using ICT, smartboards and a range of other bits and bods with links etc Disasters Site Teacher resources and student on line learning, activities etc all related to disasters and survival. TVNZ Catalogue TVNZ licensing have created a webpage dedicated to the supply of recent and archival programmes on dvd for educational use. Teaching that Makes Sense Website resource for teachers linking to literacy of all kinds with helpful ideas, suggestions, templates etc Educational Wikis Wikis with just about everything to do with education - ideas, strategies, planning, ICT you name it, it is in here! Committed Sardine 100 ways to use social media in the classroom complete with examples of teachers using them with students etc to bring them into 21st century learning and life.

Story on line Lots of stories and related activities for teaching and learning. Learn English More stories, songs, listening activities etc to support teaching and learning of literacy. (More junior school focussed.) Scholastic News Scholastic News is a news site for Kids. It's an American site but contains international news.

__Learning Games:__
__Primary Games__ Lots of great educational games BBC The BBC education site for schools Tut Pup Maths learning that follows the development of the children's learning E-Learning for kids A range of learning opportunities and activites for students Starfall.com A free site for reading games, activities and printables / photocopiables A+ Maths Maths games and support More Maths Stuff More games, learning and supports Funbrain Lots of fun stuff to support learning and ideas ICT Games Roy the Zebra Reading games: alphabet, rhyming words, ending consonants, medial vowels, shared stories etc etc easy to follow for independent group or individual learning practice. The Gruffalo All things Gruffalo - games, songs, resources etc etc Sumdog Free numeracy games Lego Lego digital design. Create all sorts of lego things using your computer. Free and works off both Pc and Mac platforms.

__ Other Fun and Stuff:__
__What Now__ See what is happening on What Now - competitions, presenters etc Freddo Frog The adventures of Freddo Frog ABC Kids games, printables and loads more from the ABC Kids television shows and books Disney The New Zealand and Australian Disney Home page, games and all sorts of safe fun for the kids online PBS Kids Kids games etc from TV such as Curious George, Clifford and loads others. Sesame Street great basic numeracy, patterns, geometry games and more for little people all with your favourite Sesame Street characters. Also links to educational podcasts (free) which can be downloaded and used for teaching and learning.

**__ How to ... Stuff:__ **
Blogs and wikis in the class how to set up blogs and wikis in the class Blogs and wikis in the class #2 how to create a wiki Wiki tips ideas, hints and support in creating wikis Blog site create a blog here Blog site #2 create a blog here Blog site #3 create a blog here Flash up your blog pimp your blog here Podcasts and Vodcasts [|Edtech UNlearn Conference] This is a fantastic online learning conference that may be completed in your own time. Endless resources. It lasts for a year and includes live conference presentations. Tailored to meet individual learning needs. Highly recommended. (Called UNlearn because it's not like a normal limited conference).

__ Other Useful Sites for Teaching and Learning:__
**Super Clubs Plus ** Safe social networking site for children around the world <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">E Pals <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Another social networking site for children

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** __ Inquiry Support Sites:__ ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">NZ Curriculum and Inquiry