Other+Curriculum+Areas

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Junior Science experiment

__For the kids__ __Suessville__ Finger Physics Toopy and Binoo (for the juniors) Flabby Physics The King Country Sand Art World Digital Library How Stuff Works CIA World Factbook Junior Fun Science News for Kids Amazing Images to use Brain testers 360cities.net Ormie the Pig Online drawing - then play it to show how you did it. Free clipart Flight Simulator [|FLight Simulator - access to free demo] [|The Power of Belief - Have a growth mindset] A great website for making comic strips Make 3D shapes and models with tinkercad.com A talk about innovation - really cool! Making peace with Lions

Art View the world's art online

For Parents Sir Ken Robinson - Need for a Paradigm shift Herding Cats - do you relate? Need more drama in your life? [|Nigel Latta - School Report - What's Going On? (Recommended viewing).] Concerns about Wifi? Read[| this]from the Ministry of Education. Here is a [|radio NZ interview]about what to say to your kids about learning (Growth Mindset). Simon Breakspear - personalised learning The Art of Discipline - from Family Times Reading at Home - National Library World Class? Inside NZ Education - a special report (TV3 documentary)

Genealogy - Try this website familysearch.org

For Teachers Teacher Wellbeing Inspiration David Riley - Creative ideas in teaching literacy Webinar on The Art of Teaching Narrative Writing Sir Ken Robinson - Need for a Paradigm shift Sir Ken Robinson - How to escape education's death valley Todd Rose - The Myth of Average How to learn - TED Talk Ideas to inspire writing Video links from FTPP residential Maths resources Virtual Learning Network Go-rewrite punctuation Literacy online Kevin Honeycutt Glenn Capelli at uLearn TED Talk featuring Piripiri School as part of the global classroom media type="youtube" key="3H4R5NHcspQ" height="315" width="560"

Simon Breakspear explains personalised learning here in an excellent video - this is what we are doing here at Piripiri School. media type="vimeo" key="50173922" height="281" width="500"

Lee Crocket - 21st Century Learning Fluencies - an excellent video media type="youtube" key="N8DEeR1sraA" height="335" width="497"

Lee Crocket speaks to ULearn NZ about the Digital generation media type="youtube" key="MsHhbac6f_g" height="368" width="502"

Yong Zhao speaks about the future of education media type="youtube" key="wa_Emp99Sf0" height="480" width="854"

Bryan Bruce - The Purpose of Education media type="youtube" key="iM2aWRvDOK0" width="560" height="315"