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Fact Monster – Google for Kids

Name: Fact Monster

Link: http://www.factmonster.com/

Description: Fact Monster is a website run by the Family Education Network. From the website you can choose a subject to explore including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education and health. It is designed like a search engine for kids and contains an encyclopaedia, games, quizzes and research tools.

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Subject: Technology

Strand:  Digital Technology, Knowledge and Understanding

Year Level:   F – 7

Cross Curricular Priorities: Sustainability

General Capabilities:

  • Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
    • Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT
    • Investigating with ICT
    • Creating with ICT
    • Communicating with ICT
  • Creative and Critical Thinking
    • Inquiring – identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas
    • Generating ideas, possibilities and actions
    • Reflecting on thinking and processes
    • Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures

Links to Other Learning Areas:

  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • The Arts
  • Health and Physical Education
  • ICT

 

How this is useful:

Fact Monster is useful as it allows students to explore the web without stumbling across anything they shouldn’t see. It is a website which is monitored and has information that is explained in simple terms. In the classroom I would allow my students to browse Fact Monster rather than Google to limit the time wasting and potential procrastination.

 

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Resource: Survey Monkey

Name: Survey Monkey

Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/

Description: Survey Monkey is used to create surveys online to be able to share them with people via email or social media. Survey Monkey puts all the data into charts and reports for easy distribution of results.

 

Subject: Technology

Strand:  Digital Technology

Year Level:   3 – 6

General Capabilities:

  • Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
    • Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT
    • Investigating with ICT
    • Creating with ICT
    • Communicating with ICT
  • Creative and Critical Thinking
    • Inquiring – identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas
    • Generating ideas, possibilities and actions
    • Reflecting on thinking and processes
    • Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures

Links to Other Learning Areas:

  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • The Arts
  • Health and Physical Education

How this is useful:

For the teacher: The teacher can create survey’s on a subject they have recently been doing in class, have the students complete the survey and see if what they learnt and how they liked the subject. It can give the teacher some feedback on their teaching.

Useful Survey for Teachers: Bullying Survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/?sm=vPn5rCklmOnA1n%2bf7b1KISJfj7qNDk%2bViYRPQEMncWM%3d

For the students: If the teacher creates an account, it can be set up for the students to create surveys for different subjects and quiz their peers or family members through sharing the link. This could come handy in Maths, Science and Health in particular. It will also assist the students in creating their own graphs and charts as they will be able to compare them to the Survey Monkey reports.