Welcome

=//Welcome to my education wiki page. //=

Hi I'm Annette Davie and I am a third year Education Student at James Cook University. I have been married for 16 years and I am a mum of 6 children, 5 of whom are still in school. My eldest daughter, who is 20, is now married and about to move to the U.S.A (yes this photo is really of me taken last November).

The reason for calling my wiki Moments-Of-Time is because I regularly find myself searching for teaching resources in those few stolen moments of time that I get. These moments can be short, eg 15mins, or extended moments such as 3-4 hours (these are usually very late at night when everyone else is in bed). It is also a reflection that work undertaken in any classroom is only for a moment of time in the students overall education.

The purpose of this wiki is to gather what I hope will be useful information and links to help teachers with planning units and lessons. I have started with the S.O.S.E. KLA and have been gathering some resources that align with the Q.L.D. S.O.S.E Curriculum documents.

On the Curriculum Documents page you can find the current E.L's for S.O.S.E and Technology, the draft National Curriculum - History, blank unit and lesson plan templates. I have also added to the bottom of the page a copy of the QCT Professional Standards.

In the Resources page I have placed some online sites that have some great SOSE and ICT resources that can be used by teachers and/or students in the classroom.They have been seperated into different categories. The first set of sites are research resources for students to use when investigating the current unit we are studying in S.O.S.E. The current unit is Ancient Civilisations and you will find these links seperated into three areas: Egypt, Greece and Rome. All of these sites are free access sites to enable students access from home as well as school. The next couple of sets are resource pages are for both students and teachers on a variety of S.O.S.E. subjects. I have separated them into two categories, free and paid. These sites range from lesson plans and information sites to free software that can be used in the classroom by the students. The final list of sites have resources for a range of subject and again these are seperated into paid and free sites. (At the time of creating this wiki all sites that have been made available to students have been checked for appropriate content and advertising. This being said it is advised that these sites be regularly checked for safe and appropriate content before allowing students access). I will also over time place lesson plans and unit plans that I have found and/or modified to implement into the classrooms.

There is also a Student Lounge Area where students will be able to find the current unit desciptions, assessments sheets and in some cases teacher examples of work that students are expected to produce. Student activities will be placed here for students to refer to during the unit of work and where examples of student work and electronic copies of assessment pieces can be placed. This page therefore is an area that will be used to showcase student's work. This page will be constantly changing with new samples and will change as we move from unit to unit. Parents are also welcome to visit this page to access the work the class is undertaking. In the discussion area students and parents can come and chat about their work with the teacher or each other. This will be monitored by me on a daily basis.

The References page is where you will find direct links to pages were I have found information, software and classroom resources so that if you wish to visit these pages you are able to do so.

I love surfing the web for resources because there are some really great lesson and unit resources out there if only you know where to find them and I thought that I really should share the ones that I have found with others.

I have enjoyed creating this wiki so far and look forward to many more hours adding to and maintaining it. I hope you have fun and that you will find something useful.

Regards Annette

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