New electronic resources for supporting the digital classroom
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English
Title: Drama in society: English stage 4 [electronic resource]
Publisher: Straithfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2005
This is a resource for Stage 4 English, Students examine two script forms and their conventions. They learn to create a storyboard script for a TV advertisemnet and compose a short drama script for a play (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 792.0712944 15
Title: Taming Kat [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2006
A multimedia resource which explores the nature of appropriation in modern culture. Students make comparisons between Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the modern teen appropriation 10 Things I hate About You (Adapted from the Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 822.33 K6 9
Title: Short films: English Stage 4 [electronic resource]
Publisher: Sydney: Department of Education and Training, 2005
This is a multimedia resource introducing the short film genre to Stage 4 English students. It familiarises students with the features and format of a screenplay and the importancce of plot, character, setting, metaphors and symbols. Students also expliore aspects of filmaking and perspectives on Australian society and culture.
Call #: 791.436548 1
Maths
Title: Binomial theorem and binomial probability [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2006
Binomial theorem and binomial probability is a web-based multimedia resource designed to support students in learning about various applications of Pascal's triangle (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 512.9422 1
Title: Parabolas [electronic resource]
Publisher: Syndey: Department of Education, 2007
Within this resource, students use graphics calculators and online graphic tools to learn key skills and ideas about parabolas (Centre for Student Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 516.152 1
Title: race track maths
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2006
This interactive multimedia resource focusing in pi, circumference, scale drawings , area and perimeter is designed and developed primarily for Stage 4 mathematics students 9Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call 3: 516.0071294 1
Science
Title: Backyard survival: An ant investigation [electronic resource]
Publisher: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2006
This electronic resource allows students to explore the classifiaction of invertebrates, realtionships in an ecosystem, the ethics of experimentation on animals abd the communication of scientific findings (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 307.760712 1
Title: Backyard survival: Food for all
Publisher: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2006
The unit of work on this resource helps students carry out a scientific investigation to find out what natural household substances can prevent ants from infesting the home (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008)
Call #: 307.760712 1
Title: Backyard survival: About bugs [electronic resource]
Publisher: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2006
Use this resource to scaffold a scientific investigation in your own backyard (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 307.760712 1
Title: Atomic apsorption spectroscopy [videorecording]
Publisher: Straithfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2007
This DVD supports HSC Chemistry students learning about the use of atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) in detecting concentration of ions (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 543.5 11
Title: Grime scene investigation stage 4 [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning and Teaching, 2007
A webquest resource which guides students to carry out an environmental audit of an estuary. It is a task that is designed to be used in conjunction with a visit to as estuary. The task requires students in groups to be assigned roles of different sceintists (microbiologist, ecologist, environmental scientist, water quality chemist and biologist). They are to work as a team, in order to write a scientific report on the health of the estuary visited (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Links to syllabus and Quality Teaching.
Call #: 363.700712 2
Title: Stage 4: Science units of work [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning and Teaching, 2007
An electronic resource that provides self-paced units of work on: working scientifically, living things, energy, body systems, electricity, elements, compounds and graphs, Australian environments, hot times, through the microscope, mixture separation, plants, solar system (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 507.12944 31
Title: Stage 5: Science units of work [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning and Teaching, 2007
The self-paced units of work on this electronic resource explain concepts and provide activities with correct responses and feedback. The units of work include: aquaculture, chemical combinations, compunds, continents on the move, it's cosmic!, journey throug the cosmos, evolution, what's happening at Futura Inc, hypotheticals, maker of the miracle mould, motion, human reporduction, student research project, telecommunications, waves (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 507.12944 32
Title: Living things
Publisher: Sydney: Department of Education and Training, 2004
A four part series that shows students how to classify living things using their different features (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 570.712944 6
Title: Student research project [electronic resource]
Publisher: Straithfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2005
This multimedia resource takes students step-by-step through the process of planning and undertaking a scientific investigation 9Centre for Learning Innovaation, 2008).
Call #: 507.12 189
History
Title: Exploring Persepolis [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2005
An interactive multimedia resource for Year 11 students of Ancient History. Students research the relationships such as power, gender and economy that influenced the Persian kings and their society (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 935 370
Technological and Applied Sciences
Title: Growing an idea
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2007
Growing an idea is a multimedia resource focusing on the design of outdoor spaces. It provides opportunities to develop skills and knowledge in plant production technologies and contributes to an understanding of design principles and planning (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 607.12944 35
Title: Draw it
Publisher: Sydney: Department of Education and Training, 2005
Draw it is designed to work towards satisfying the requirements of the Technology <Mandatory) Years 7-8 syllabus in Graphics technologies. It includes interactive activities based on text, audio, virtual tours and flash animations 9Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 760.0712944 7
Title: Design cafe
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2007
This electronic resource provides opportunities for students to develop knowledge about and skills in the areas of food technologies (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 664.0071294
PDHPE
Title: My changing world [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2006
My changing worls is a multimedia reesource in which students engage in activities exploring the factors that can influence their sense of self and how these factors may change as they become older (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 158.10835 11
Title: Looking after myself [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2006
This is a versatile multimedia resource, that supports the delivery of the Stage 5 PDHPE outcomes across a range of strands. It provides opportunites for students to learn about and practise ways of adopting and maintaining healthy, productive and active lives (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 158.10835 10
Title: Crossroads: intimate relationships [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2007
A resource that provides young people with an opportunity to explore issues of health and sexuality (Centre for Learning innovation, 2008).
Call #: 158.10835 12
Geography
Title: How eco-friendly are you? Stage 4 Geography [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2007
Using this resource, students investigate global geographical issues such as climate change, threatened habitats and implications for human rights. The resource is visually stimulating, easy to navigate and appeals to a variety of learning styles (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 363.700712
Title: Future world: Stage 5 geography [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2007
In Future world students explore various population scenarios and their implications for our future lives. From baby bonuses to centenarians, urban villages to underground cities and nuclear reactors to solar panels, students evaluate the challenges and opportunites that concern us all (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 910.712944 27
Title: Fire challenge
Publisher: Strathfield, Centre for Learning Innovation, 2007
Fire challenge puts students in the role of volunteers in the Incident Management team of the NSW Rural Fire Service during a bushfire. It is designed for Stage 5 geography students where they use a range of geographic processes skills and tools to learn about the impacts of bushfires (Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 363.3790712 1
Creative Arts
Title: Leaving a landscape: visual arts, stage 4 &5 [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2005
Leaving a landscape allows students to explore landscape by:
- observing and responding to a natural environment through a series of artworks;
- learning about landscape artworks of Arthur Boyd and his gift tp the nation of Australia
- learning how other artists have responded to the natural environment
- creating a body of work in response to a natural environment
(Centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
'Call #: 758.1 21
Title: Site, structure, significance [electronic resource]
Publisher: Strathfield, NSW: Centre for Learning Innovation, 2007
This is a resource inspired by Sculpture by the Sea in which students create a scultpture and organise an exhibition in a site of their choice. The resource, underpinned by the conceptual framework of the Visual Arts syllabus, includes historical and critical study (centre for Learning Innovation, 2008).
Call #: 707.12944 28
