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Cool Tools for Schools

Partner site:** 21Cstudent ** for rich student tasks Smartboard**: If there's a smartboard in your classroom ask if someone is able to set it up for you. (teacher or student). Smartboards give you a big monitor to use with whole class activities. Smartboards are not to be written on. They have the ability to be touched or a mouse / keyboard can be used.

Google
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Tag galaxy

Literacy
Spelling City No need to sign in. Students are able to write their spelling words into the list on the home page and then play games that are generated. If you have five computers in the room you are able to set up a rotation system throughout a literacy block.

Writing Fun Especially great for Smartboards. Begin your writing lesson with the genre you are teaching. Highlight grammatical features. Templates are available for copying or students are able to write online.

Wacky Web Tales Has been around for quite a few years. Students love it. Fill in the blanks to make a random but funny story. Words need to be grammatically correct for the story to read properly. Students have opportunity to change words until the story makes sense. Begin by doing a story together and then allow students to create their own. They could share a story depending on computers in the room. A few rules: numbers need to be spelt, sensible use of words (when in doubt don't use it or only put a word that the kindest grandmother in the world would like, capital letters for proper nouns (natch)

Numeracy
Mathletics (subscribed schools) If schools have subscription students will have passwords to play Live Mathletics or tasks.

Johnnie's Maths page Interactive Maths games for all levels

Maths Starter of the Day Begin your maths session with the problem of the day... either using the calendar or using a problem that you've checked out ahead of time. Other Starter of the Day links are found here.

General activities
Learning planet : interactive games to reinforce literacy and numeracy skills

Watch BTN either on tv or online with your students.
 * Behind the News**

Weekly resources are available on the abc website @http://www.abc.net.au/btn/teachers.html Download the discussion file from the weekly resource page. Students could download if given the link or the file could be accessed on a wiki. Students write the answers to the discussion questions onto the document and email to the teacher. Students could work with a partner or group.