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Educational Resources from a teacher of 30 plus years in a wide variety of subject areas and age groups

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Educational Resources from a teacher of 30 plus years in a wide variety of subject areas and age groups
Your Plumbing is Wrong! - Short Science Fiction Play Script
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Your Plumbing is Wrong! - Short Science Fiction Play Script

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This is a short play script for two actors with a science fiction theme. It requires minimal staging and would be suitable for Stage 5 Elective Drama or HSC Drama practice and performance. Synopsis: A starship Commander on a mission to wipe out a renegade outpost gets some sage advice from a technician on how to keep his engines singing.
English Comprehension - Fast Food - Science Fiction Short Story
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English Comprehension - Fast Food - Science Fiction Short Story

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Suitable for stages upper stage 4 and stages 5 and 6 English classes, this comprehension resource includes a black comedy science fiction short story and a set of comprehension questions for group discussion and interpretation. It is provided in both pdf and editable docx formats. The resource author's original short story is about a call centre operator who encounters a client well beyond the job description's ability to deal with.
A Day At The Beach - Graphic Design Templates for Mandatory Technology Classes
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A Day At The Beach - Graphic Design Templates for Mandatory Technology Classes

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20 pages of design templates for a custom day at the beach. Get students to design their own clothing, caps, umbrellas, drink bottles and much more. There are enough resources here to run a full unit in graphic design for middle school design and technology students or you can cherry pick individual tasks such as creating a design for swimwear. Print out the pages for students to work by hand or allow them to copy and paste individual pictures from the Word document into their favorite paint program. A4 size printable pdf and editable word docx provided.
How Do You Feel? Picture Book
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How Do You Feel? Picture Book

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This book has been especially created as an early reader for children on the Autistic Spectrum. It uses a simple emoticon type character to present visual cues for reading emotions. For information about electronic jigsaw puzzles on this theme please email me at kellyocs@gmail.com
Making Powerpoint Truly Interactive
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Making Powerpoint Truly Interactive

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Frustrated with the purely linear format of standard Powerpoint presentations? Want to create some truly interactive multimedia? This simple guide shows you how to turn off the automatic navigation defaults in Powerpoint and give the power of where and when to go back to the end user where it belongs. Use this information to create your own interactive picture books for younger students that allow the child to click on a object to play a sound (example: a picture of a pig oinks when clicked on) or to go to any page in the book at any time. Or get your middle school students to create their own interactive picture books, yearbooks or digital portfolios. (Just some of the already tried and tested possibilities) Have fun! And please do a review.
Visual Prompts for Creative Writing - Fantasy/Science Fiction (Australian Curriculum)
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Visual Prompts for Creative Writing - Fantasy/Science Fiction (Australian Curriculum)

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This collection of twelve, full color, original digital artworks on two A4 pages is designed to inspire students to write creatively in the Fantasy/Science fiction genres. The pages can be printed as handouts for individual students or projected on a screen for whole class viewing. Individual images can also be used as a resource in developing student skills in interpreting visual texts (Australian Curriculum) Please complete a review if you find this resource useful.
Visual Prompts for Creative Writing - Fantasy/Science Fiction (Australian Curriculum) - A3 Posters
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Visual Prompts for Creative Writing - Fantasy/Science Fiction (Australian Curriculum) - A3 Posters

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This collection of twelve, full color, original digital artworks on two A3 pages is designed to inspire students to write creatively in the Fantasy/Science fiction genres. The pages can be printed as wall posters or projected on a screen for whole class viewing. Individual images can also be used as a resource in developing student skills in interpreting visual texts (Australian Curriculum) Please complete a review if you find this resource useful.
Happy Digital Jigsaw Puzzle
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Happy Digital Jigsaw Puzzle

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20 piece jigsaw puzzle in Flash format of one of the characters from the How Do You Feel? book for children on the Autistic Spectrum. Can be played in any browser with flash player enabled.
Animation Basics - A Guide for Industrial Technology - Multimedia Industries (Australian Curriculum)
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Animation Basics - A Guide for Industrial Technology - Multimedia Industries (Australian Curriculum)

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A reference guide and work tasks for studying Animation Basics that includes research questions and a number of practical activities that can be completed without the purchase of additional high-end software. Although specifically designed with the HSC Multimedia course in mind this resource might also be used as a work unit for Mandatory Technology classes or Elective ICT in the junior high school. (Australian Curriculum). The guide can be printed and distributed as a student handout or distributed to students in the original pdf format. Please complete a review if you find this resource useful.
Italian to English Spring and Autumn Translation Worksheets
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Italian to English Spring and Autumn Translation Worksheets

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Junior Italian worksheets (Australian Curriculum - Mandatory Languages) The worksheets in pdf format require students to translate a paragraph written in Italian, about the particular season, into English. They should be used as a follow up to prior teaching on colors and the natural world. They can be printed as handouts for students or the answers can be typed directly into the pdf file and saved. (ensure that each student has their own copy or answers may be overwritten). Please complete a review if you've found this resource useful.
Software Licencing Classifications and Related Ethical Issues
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Software Licencing Classifications and Related Ethical Issues

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These worksheet activities involve students researching software licencing classifications and examining the related ethical issues. Designed for NSW senior computing courses such as IPT, SDD and Industrial Technology - Multimedia Industries, the 3 pages of this activity explore definitions of freeware, shareware and open source software etc. and engage students in thinking critically about software piracy, intellectual property, cracking etc. The study of ethics in relation to computing technologies is a mandatory requirement in all the approved NSW BOSTES computer and technology syllabuses. The completed worksheets could also be used as a quick reference for the ethics component of senior exams in computing.
Housing Design for Climate - Customizable Assessment Task
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Housing Design for Climate - Customizable Assessment Task

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This, in class, assessment task is the practical extension of the workbook Mandatory Technology - Built Environments (Australian Curriculum) by the same author. It requires students to create their own house designs using free 3D design software (Sketchup Make or Sweet Home 3D) with consideration for the issues of climate and environment. It is designed to assess not only the learning involved in the workbook but also the practical application of it. As an unrestricted word document teachers can customize timing, criteria and assessment weighting to suit their needs. Please review this resource if you find it useful.
Portraits - Visual Arts Unit of Work for Middle School
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Portraits - Visual Arts Unit of Work for Middle School

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This 5 page unit of work is divided into three sections, Photography, Drawing Media and Computing Technologies, with the focus on portraiture. Students should take an estimated 10 to 15 hours to complete all the activities (including the homework task). It is suitable for distribution to students as a complete unit for self paced learning or in sections as a resource for more formal guided learning. There are activities that require students to work in pairs and others that require access to the internet for research. Some additional access to photo-manipulation software such as photoshop is also required. (suggestions of free software for this purpose are made in the instructions) Please complete a review of this resource if you find it useful.
Super Heroes and Villains - Comic Drawing and Creative Writing Activity
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Super Heroes and Villains - Comic Drawing and Creative Writing Activity

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Four pages of templates for creating and writing about Super Heroes and Villains. Each page has a watermark figure (1 each female hero and villain and male hero and villain) that students can drawn over and colour to create their own comic book character. There is also a section for the student to name and describe their character (hints given) and to write a short story with that character in it. Suitable for upper primary and middle school classes as an exercise in character development for story writing in English or an Art lesson that engages students in writing as an aid to visualization of ideas. Please complete a review if you find this resource useful.
Lily the Ladybug - A Guided Reader in pdf format
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Lily the Ladybug - A Guided Reader in pdf format

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This 24 page picture book in A4 pdf format can be displayed on a screen for whole class reading time or printed (single copy only) for classroom use. Designed and illustrated for early readers it introduces Lily the Ladybug and the importance of having and making friends. Professionally printed and bound copies can be purchased from Amazon Booksellers.