Book Week 2009 – Information and Activities

 The following is a collection of websites, links documents and ideas for this year’s book week celebrations. Many postings come from OZTL-NET , thanks to those contributors. Please send me anything else you come across.

 http://www.student.education.tas.gov.au/C2/Find%20Information/SearchPages/bookweek.aspxhttp://www.ecentre.education.tas.gov.au/C8/Find/Searches/bookweek.aspx
 
 A collection of websites to promote Children’s Book Week 2009 – Sites included: The Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Week page; their ideas page, book of the year awards page , the 2009 short list and notables pages; CMIS reviews of the older readers titles; The CBCA’s Junior Judges Project 2009 for students to select their winner and honour book choices; Book week quiz on OzProjects site
 
Book Safari……Book Week 2009 (http://cbca.org.au/bookweek.htm

The CBCA has instigated a Junior Judges Project that gives you an opportunity to register your class(es) online to participate in a voting scheme that allows children to indicate who they think should win.

http://juniorjudgesproject.com.au

The Book Week Passports are now online – thanks to Trisha Buckley from the CBCA and Padua College.

http://cbca.org.au/bookweekideas.htm scroll down to the bottom of the list.

Here is a list of Book Safari ideas that were brainstormed at the SA Christian Schools Library Conference.  Book Week Brainstorm  Book Safari with thanks to Charmaine Burton.  

From Jill Midolo – Check out our CMIS resources to support your Book Safari. Thanks to Jean Anning, we have the most wonderful Geraldine Giraffe book trolley that is being widely admired and will form the centrepiece for our Book Week display. She’s easy to make and you could do something similar. See Geraldine’s photo on our Book Week page:
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/bookweek/
Please scroll down the page below Geraldine to find our CMIS suggestions for your Book Safari.

This Video is very useful for Book Week or Literacy Week, both with students and teachers – from Judith Way: 
http://bit.ly/78Nij

From  Raeanne McLean – We hold a rotational book reading session involving the whole junior school on the Monday of book week to kick it off. It takes a bit of organising as we group the students across year levels. All the teachers are involved. I tell them about who won in which category etc. Then students get a passport with the shortlisted books inside that they tick and rate. It is all done in the theme so they are all making a hat to go on safari! After the reading we have a small activity for them to do such as an origami crocodile and making binoculars. We will ring a bell then the students will move to the next area to hear another book and do another activity. We will take the morning to do this.

  From Rhyl Bignell -Teacher Librarian, Allenby Gardens Primary School -..thought I’d share some of my ideas and hope to see what others are doing. As we have had a term on Report Writing focussed on Australian Animals, we have decided to look at an African Safari theme. 

Camouflage netting ($10.95 per metre) from camping store, draped from ceiling with animals – stuffed toys and student artwork, snakes, leaves, hanging down

Each class (19) will have a canvas (inexpensive one from Ned’s SA), to represent a letter or number of animals from BOOK SAFARI 2009, with some JP classes painting an African Safari scene.

Shoebox – cereal box dioramas that showcase an endangered animal in their native environment will be on display.

Book Week Parade will have an African theme, music, drumming, instead of costumes -Animal Masks and a report from several classes about the theme
- Conservation. I will be dressed up similar to Ms Frizzle now I am looking to buy a pith helmet!

Buddy Class afternoon, will focus on one of the shortlisted books and an African activity supported by the African parents – cooking, music, storytelling.

All of the JP classes are visiting Monarto Zoo during Book Week as well.

Here’s a great website = the African Wildlife Foundation – a great basis to start from.http://www.awf.org/section/wildlife/gallery 

Here is a site that might be useful for Book Week ideas.

http://www.scissorcraft.com/masks.htm

This poster maker may be useful for Book Week: thanks to Judith Way

http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2009/08/13/block-posters/ 

  Units of work, based on three picture books by Colin Thompson – The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness, Sometimes Love is Under Your Foot and Unknown. The materials were developed this year as an extension to the Dogs Home’s Humane Beings program for schools (flyer attached for your interest). As Happy Sadness is short listed this year, the timing seems right to alert librarians and teachers to the availabilty of the Picture Book Pack – it’s free via email (doesn’t include the books obviously!). The units are values based and focus on connection and caring.

Available from: Anne Boxhall [aboxhall@bigpond.com]

These resources were collected to support my school in the teaching of sustainability across the school from Grade 1 – 6. Their focus is on:

Our local waterway and beach, recycling plastics, packaging of lunches, composting with worm farms, and electronic waste

For Students 

   How Can My Community Reduce Waste?  

Find ways we can reduce the creation of waste and prevent the destruction of our environment. A USA site aimed at school age students.  http://www.learner.org/exhibits/garbage/  

Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Teacher 

   Ecological Footprint  

An online calculator to measure your own ecological performance at home, the office or at school – A tool to help you use resources more wisely.. 

Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/ecologicalfootprint/default.asp

   Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative     

The Australian Government’s project to integrate sustainability into the curriculum and daily management of the school Document selected as a Curriculum resource for Science…..

http://www.environment.gov.au/education/aussi/index.html  

Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 

Students – EPA Victoria

Resources include:

Home Water Investigator

Air Quality for Kids

Greenhouse Calculator

Ecological Footprint calculators

Car EcoMeter

EPA Victoria Library

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/students/default.asp

EPA Victoria’s Beach Report website:

Investigate – storm water, litter and water quality

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/BeachReport/default.asp

   Environment in 10 Seconds (UNEP)  

Movie for the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) which illustrates what could be happening in the world in 10 seconds….

http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/movies/UNEP2/UNEP2Movie.html  

Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 

   eco’tude: Changing Your School’s Ecological Attitude  

The eco’tude calculator measures your school’s ecological footprint. The work book from the site provides an auditing toolkit which sets out methods of finding the information needed by the calculator…  more…

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/ecotude/index.asp  

Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 

   Clean Up Australia  

Home page of the Clean Up campaigns which include Clean Up Australia and Clean Up the World. Clean Up Australia’s mission is to inspire and work with all Australians to clean up, fix up and conserve other programs  Clean Up for Schools | Clean Up Our Climate | Clean Up Mobile Phones | Say NO to Plastic Bags | Clean Up the World… 

http://www.cleanup.com.au/au/  

Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, Teacher 

Water matters: car wash  

The Learning Federation has specified conditions of use for this object. 

Compare the amount of water used when washing a car with equipment such as a hose or a bucket of water. Choose how often to wash the car. Look at the results of washing a car on a lawn or a driveway. … 

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/tlf/551ab029-3f0b-241b-2c1b-05aa33c3034f/1/ViewIMS.jsp

   Water matters: watering the garden  

The Learning Federation has specified conditions of use for this object. 

Compare the amount of water used when watering a garden with equipment such as a hose or a sprinkler system. Choose how often to water the garden. Look at the results of using mulch on garden beds. Us… 

Early Childhood, Lower Primary 

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/tlf/d89a65bd-e57b-7df9-949e-5e80630e136a/2/ViewIMS.jsp

   Water matters: time for a water fight  

The Learning Federation has specified conditions of use for this object. 

Compare the amount of water used when playing with equipment such as a hose or a water pistol. Choose how often and how long to have a water fight. Look at the results of playing on a lawn or a drivew…

Early Childhood, Lower Primary 

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/tlf/1187df38-32a0-d1b6-7c4b-95ec5664821f/2/ViewIMS.jsp

For Teachers

Reading Enriches Learning – Sustainability resources

Reading activities for younger (years 2-4) and older (years 5-8) school students in themed collections – sustainability, history, values, humour, responsibility, identity. Online teacher support with … 

Early Childhood, Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 

http://www.curriculumpress.edu.au/rel/sustainability/index.php

   The Liquidators – What Goes Around Comes Around (MSWord)

What are the natural processes involved in the water cycle? How does the water cycle work? Humans use water for a variety of purposes. What are the different ways in which we use water? How humans can… 

Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/508337d0-9607-8364-e559-27b2d5a59b24/1/The_Liquidators_-_What_Goes_Around_Comes_Around.doc

   Why are shorebirds at risk?  (MSWord)    

In this learning sequence, students inquire into the ecology of shorebirds and find out why they are often at risk. Students demonstrate their understanding of the biology, habitat and threat to shore… 

Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Teacher 

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/949f193c-0c89-4b85-df83-f934e0cbc9a5/1/shorebirds.doc

  H2O (Multiple resources)

Throughout this unit students will be introduced to the concept of water catchments. They will recognise and apply ethical considerations in the use of catchments and waterways. Students will unders…

 Upper Primary 

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/baed71da-4e74-2b40-3a9b-2053ffb3df96/1/LessonPlansAll.doc

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/baed71da-4e74-2b40-3a9b-2053ffb3df96/1/WaterICDPUnitFinal.doc

WA Waste Wise website

Includes:

a collection of resources to help you on your Waste Wise journey.

Categories:

Fact Sheets

Other Resources 

Downloads (quick links to useful items):

Sample Waste Wise School Policies

Sample Waste Minimisation Plan

Waste Wise Lesson Ideas Across the Curriculum

Waste Wise Environmental Attitudes Checklist

Waste Wise Environmental Behaviour Survey

How to make a Fridge Worm Farm

Zero Waste Lunches

http://www.wastewise.wa.gov.au/resources/index.html

Computer waste summary sheet

http://www.envict.org.au/inform.php?menu=6&submenu=532&item=905

Resources from edna

National Recycling Week: Kids and teacher resources [edna Resources]

URL: http://recyclingweek.planetark.org/kids-teachers/

Category: General early childhood curriculum Resource Use & Management 

This section of the Planet Ark site has lesson plans for teachers (including a survey on packaging, and how to make recycled paper) and downloadable activity sheets, and colouring

Waste and recycling: Stuff for kids [edna Resources]  

URL: http://www.portenf.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1040

Category: General early childhood curriculum Resource Use & Management 

This local council website provides information for children on how to make the best waste choices for the environment. It includes: the journey of your waste, interactive activities…. 

Fun and games: Resources and waste [edna Resources]

URL: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/…371307/?version=1&lang=_e

Category: Resource Use & Management 

This UK site provides information about reducing, re-using and recycling and other waste issues. It includes interactives and animations for children and downloadable teaching resources

Where does my recycling go? [edna Resources]

URL: http://www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/…440B6441E85&siteName=blacktown

Category: General early childhood curriculum Resource Use & Management 

This NSW local council fact sheet has information on how each recyclable article can be re-used. Whilst the text is suitable for middle primary and above, the images supporting the…. 

Michael, Michael, go recycle! [edna Resources]

URL: http://funschool.kaboose.com/…y/games/game_michael_recycle.html

Category: General early childhood curriculum 

In this interactive game, Michael has to move through the maze, picking up all the rubbish and depositing it in the appropriate recycle bin. 

Clean up your world: Protect our environment [edna Resources]

URL: http://funschool.kaboose.com/…mes/game_clean_up_your_world.html

Category: General early childhood curriculum 

Clean up your world with this fun drag-and-drop game, picking up the rubbish in a creek environment, and sorting it into the right recycle bins. It makes a great kids’ introduction…. 

Ollie recycles Australia [edna Resources]

URL: http://www.ollierecycles.com.au/aus/index.html

Category: General science resources 

Ollie ReCycles is an environmental education site which contains lots of current information, school events, teacher information, environmental resources and competitions. 

Other websites

Worm Farming

http://www.ryde.nsw.gov.au/services/worm.htm

Building a worm farm, Troubleshooting

Worm farm creatures | Amazing worm facts | Worm farming and composting demonstrations | More information

Fact Sheet: Building a Worm Farm

From Gardening Australia

http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1620935.htm

How School Lunch Packaging Waste Adds Up

Moms Create a Recyclable Solution to School Lunch Waste

http://environment.about.com/od/greenlivingdesign/a/school_lunch.htm

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Glass, Plastic, Aluminium, Other metals, Paper, Your role, More information

http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/environmental_management/waste/waste_minimisation/reduce_reuse_recycle/

Mobile phone waste and the environment

Why Recycle Mobile Phones? /  ARP’s Recycling Solution

http://www.arp.net.au/envcha.php

Game : Virtual Forest Challenge

http://www.scholastic.com/growgreen/virtualforest/

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http://www.ausdance.org.au/events/Australian_Dance_Week/danceweek_2009.html

For some other resources about dance

http://www.diigo.com/list/ecentre/dance

http://www.diigo.com/list/ecentre/swine-flu-2009-outbreak

Brain Awareness Week

is an international effort organised by leading neuroscience organisations around the world to promote public awareness about brain and mind disorders and the benefits of brain research.

http://www.brainaustralia.org.au/

Resources for Tasmanian DOE people:

Teacher resources: http://ecentre.education.tas.gov.au/C8/Find/Searches/brain.aspx

Student resources: http://www.student.education.tas.gov.au/C2/Find%20Information/SearchPages/brain.aspx

Resources about the human brain 

    Brain food   
 
A collection of bookmarks to sites with information about foods which nourish the brain. Prepared for Brain Awareness Week.  more…
http://delicious.com/lorenefurmage/brainfood 
Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 
  
   Brain Connection  
 
This site is a store of information about the brain, child development and learning. Learning resources include printable activities and experiments. Games and illusions are also provided. The educati…  more…
http://www.brainconnection.com/ 
Birth – 4 Years, Early Childhood, Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 
  
   DANA BrainWeb & Brain Information: Information on Brain Disorders and Brain Diseases   
 
Addiction, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, stroke, depression, mental illness, schizophrenia, head/brain injury, aging, learning, memory, pain, sleep are all covered in this set of web links…  more…
http://www.dana.org/brainweb/ 
Middle School, Lower Secondary, Teacher 
  
   BrainyKids  
 
This site is a starting point for web links for experiments, dissecting sheep’s brain and cow’s eye and a whole frog, themed brain games, plus other brain related information for students, children, p…  more…
http://www.dana.org/kids/ 
Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Teacher  
   
     Human Brain  
 
How to nourish, protect and renew your brain.  more…
http://www.fi.edu/brain/index.htm 
Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College 
  
   Whole Brain Atlas  
 
View the human brain in three different directions. Learn to navigate through a normal brain and then study brains affected by Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease (stroke); tumor; multiple sclerosis …  more…
http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html 
College, Teacher 

   Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World  
 
Scientific information about how the senses carry messages to the brain and how the brain interprets those messages. Includes discussion of current research on topics such as colour blindness and deaf…  more…
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/ 
College, Teacher 
  
   She Brains – He Brains  
 
Discusses whether gender affects the brain and therefore the behaviour of men and women.  more…
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/heshe.html 
Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 
  
   Neuroscience for Kids  
 
Explore your nervous system with experiments and diagrams, look at disorders of the nervous system, play games and there are postcards to send.  more…
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html 
Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary, College, Teacher 

The following items are from the Learning Federation access these through your usual school access or from:

http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/for_teachers/catalogues/catalogues.html 

 Body parts: vision  
 
The Learning Federation has specified conditions of use for this object. 
Look closely at parts of a human eye. Learn how people see: light rays are detected within the eye and electrical messages are sent to the brain. Learn why we have eyebrows, eyelashes and tear ducts. …  more…
Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Lower Secondary 

 Body parts: hearing  
 
The Learning Federation has specified conditions of use for this object. 
Follow sound waves as they travel through a human ear. Find out how vibrations from the eardrum are translated into electrical messages sent to the brain. Name parts of the human ear. Test your knowle…  more…
Upper Primary, Middle School, Lower Secondary  
    

I have just collected the following websites which may help in the teaching of this topic in the next few weeks, I will update the list as new things appear.

Victorian bushfires 2009

Maps of bushfire areas

Fire map of areas affected currently by bushfires in Victoria

Australian bushfire hotspots map

Latest news updates about the current fire situation

CFA_News updates on Twitter

Country Fire Authority of Victoria  updates on the fire situation and other news reports

CFA incident summary reports of the current fire situation

ABC News – Bushfire emergency 

Includes: coverage of the bushfires and interactive map, photos and videos

The Australian – Victoria Bushfires

The HeraldSun – Victoria in flames

The Age – Faces of Tragedy

Analysis of the bushfires

Interactive map: Where the deaths occurred

Interactive survival guide

A planning and safety guide for preparing your home against the threat of bushfire.

Looking for answers in the ashes

An opinion by Frank Campbell in The Age newspaper

Bushfire Appeals

Bushfire: how you can help

Bushfires appeal launched

Red Cross appeal information 

The Victorian Bushfires: How you can help

A number of ways to help support the victims of the bushfires from Our Community

 International Fund for Animal Welfare – AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRE EMERGENCY APPEAL

Please help the animal victims of the Australian wildfires.

Tasmania

Tasmania Fire Service

Tasmanian current bushfire incident information

Historical information

Major bushfires in Victoria

So many ideas came from the conference, thanks for your suggestions.

I’ll try to address some of those things in the next few posts.

• Firstly session information from the conference

Kevin Hennah’s website

http://www.kevinhennah.com.au/Library.htm

Peter Gouldthorpe’s webpage

http://www.bdb.com.au/authors_illustrators/gouldthorpe_peter 

Tony Flowers webpage:

http://www.flowersink.com.au/

Jack Heath online:

http://www.jackheath.com.au/

John Heffernan’s website:

http://www.spudplus.com/

Carole Wilkinson’s website:

http://www.carolewilkinson.com.au/

Isobel Williams’ presentation – ASLA national and Information Literacy at Ogilvie High School:

asla-conference-aug-2008 

Ken Price’s session

Here is the link to his PowerPoint presentation to help you get started:

http://kenjprice.edublogs.org/

As you can see I have set up a blog which I will use to keep you informed about new websites, information and issues about school libraries  and curriculum materials of relevance to Tasmanian schools and colleges.

I welcome your comments. 

• Secondly some links you requested:

Links for Book Week:

 2008 Book of the Year award winners links [NEW]

 http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/6ad633e0-9c41-790a-61ed-78e0bc28ef60/1/THE+2008+BOOK+OF+THE+YEAR+AWARD+WINNERS.doc

 Fuel your mind…Book Week 2008 : 

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/6b3d4236-1d20-8e34-45b4-d279a42cee8b/1/ViewItem.jsp

 National Science Week 2008

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/434b1db4-240e-f032-c417-3a8bac720f21/1/ViewItem.jsp

Olympic Games resources

  Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: teaching materials

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/de484acc-a7b5-46fa-b196-3f4d9f21fc8a/1/ViewItem.jsp

Olympic Games: Beijing 2008

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/ede8d5b0-c61c-3f42-7db2-3c245cf7d82e/1/ViewItem.jsp

The Olympic Games and Music

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/8e486936-99d6-cdd1-22ec-8f9dff68c53f/1/The+Olympic+Games+and+Music.doc

Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/f744d04f-cc45-dff6-8df9-31eafad49531/1/ViewItem.jsp

• Thirdly, To see what other materials are available:

For DOE staff:

Information for teachers through the “eCentre for teachers”

http://ecentre.education.tas.gov.au/C8/Find/default.aspx

Information for students through the “Student Freeway”

http://www.student.education.tas.gov.au/C2/Find%20Information/default.aspx

For non DOE people:

Use the State Library of Tasmania’s “Stuff for Kids” searches in either the Cubby House or the Lounge to see information for students.

http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/kids