There’s been a long standing debate as to whether we need a new Australian Flag, and the time around Australia Day is a good time to review this in your classroom. A number of good designs have been prepared over the years, with the Flag Society of Australia having a great collection of them on [...]
Archive for January, 2009
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Posted by Kevin on January 20th, 2009
Just thought that I’d put up a quick post to point out the blogroll that I’ve just added to the menu on the right. So far, I’ve added four bloggers in there, all of whom I strongly recommend you go check out. The first one, “I Want to Teach Forever” has a lot of tips [...]
InventNow.org and the Inventor’s Toolkit
Posted by Kevin on January 18th, 2009
Over at InventNow.org, funded by the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation and the US Patent and Trademark Office, there are some great resources to be used with Primary and Middle Years students (Yr 5-7). Students can sign up and use the web site to design and share their inventions with other junior inventors. For [...]