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 [...]
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Essay Scaffold Template
Posted by Kevin on December 23rd, 2008
If the students in your class are having difficulty with preparing an essay and adhering to the conventions of essay writing, here’s a template that can help you and them. It’s something that I’ve prepared which students can use when writing an essay, which reminds them of the importance for each paragraph to link back [...]
CARisma (Transport SA teaching resource on cars & emissions)
Posted by Kevin on November 30th, 2008
Whilst searching for a list of the Key Competencies and their descriptions, I came across the “CARisma” teaching resource released by Transport SA. From the CARisma site: CARisma is a teaching and learning resource that explores the status of the car in our society, Your students will learn about: how the car has become such [...]