Came across this resource from Narelle Adams, an 'edutainer' and teacher-librarian. The powerpoint resource offers a history of celebrating Mother's Day to suit middle primary to lower secondary grades.
'History of Mother's Day' power point presentation CLICK HERE. Think 'Just in Time' not last minute :-) Australia's Religious Communities CD-ROM from Christian Research Association ( CRA ) - on sale now13/12/2013 A valuable resource for Studies of Religion and secondary students 'on sale' right now from CRA until 31 December 2013 is 'Australia's Religious Communities CD-ROM'. An Australian resource with fully reliable statistics and information about religions and faiths, schools that buy do need to consider 'site licence' information if you want to load it to an intranet or more than one computer. Notice from the CRA web site is : "It runs in a web-browser and functions on PCs, Mac and Linux computers. Site licences are available from the CRA for schools, libraries and wherever multiple copies are needed."
For the CRA site, CLICK HERE. At this busy time of the year, there's always something that we need at the last minute...
The web sites noted on Christmas Webs feature many links especially suited to the Australian classroom. Free online resources continue to increase in all areas of knowledge and study, Religious Education is no exception. The Diocese of Bathurst draft religious education program relies on many of these from YouTube clips to authoritative articles of Church teaching. These can emanate from a particular organisation such as Caritas, an education authority such as the very professionally produced RESource, an initiative of the Catholic Education Office, Melbourne, to personal blogs and publishers.
Many of the resources available from publishers' sites have specific relevance to their own published or produced resources naturally. Garratt Publishing commenced this year with a specific Religious Education outreach initiative called REmail and its second issue dealing with Mary, the Blessed Virgin is available offering ideas and activities for both Primary and Secondary grades. It's first issue dealt with Social Justice. It could be expected there is a greater chance of usefulness from the Garratt offerings because it is an Australian publisher and distributor. Resources that may be referred to have a better chance of already being within an Australian Catholic school's collection. You can opt to subscribe to REmail which means that you'll get a heads up in your in-box when a new issue is available. St Mary's Press (Winona, Minnesota) has an online resource center with multimedia offerings and worksheets, many are freely accessible for all to use while for others a log in is required. As it is a major Catholic publisher, the range of free resources is good. Click on the following links for free religious education resources. REmail Issue 2: Mary Caritas Australia Multimedia Caritas Australia Education Resources RESource, an initiative of the Catholic Education Office, Melbourne St Mary's Press Resource Center The Children's Book Council of Australia has announced the book of the year winners. The Picture Book of the Year is 'The Coat' by Julie Hunt and illustrated by Ron Brooks. Details: Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin, 2012. 9781741146059 (hardback). Click here to see the complete list of winners. Every now and then adults get lost in a picture book for children. If that has happened to you, can you remember what drew you into that book. In some it is the searching, in others it is the colour and shapes, and in still others it is something happening on the page that touches a memory or acts as a catalyst to launch you off into a creative reverie. School libraries have terrific children's picture books in them and may be well used by the Kinders and up to Year 2, but their use need not stop when students progress to middle primary grades and above...yes even secondary. Teacher-librarians and teachers can rediscover the wondrous ways picture books can be used and gain new teaching ideas at Keith Schoch's blog Teach with Picture Books. Take an idea or topic and select from the labels on Keith's site that generally equates with something you plan to do with your class. You can read the relevant past posts for ideas, but also to cross-check with picture books held by your school. Mem Fox's book, Wilfrid Gordon MacDonald Partridge, is probably held in all systemic Catholic schools in this diocese. It is an evergreen resource. Schoch has a whole set of ideas for this one at http://teachwithpicturebooks.blogspot.com.au/2009/02/wilfrid-gordon-macdonald-partridge.html It is affirming to see that your library already has useful resources. The titles mentioned on his site that your school doesn't have may be worth considering. It is not an Australian site so our Australian books are not overly featured as they are on Australian sites. That's why the short list of this and previous years of the CBCA are great guides to selecting for school and public libraries or to guide a birthday present purchase for those favourite children in our lives. This is a competition that is truly worth promoting. The organiser's answer to 'Why make a film?' explains it best --- 'Filmmaking inspires confidence, fosters creative thinking and encourages kids to explore different methods of collaboration and group work. Plus, it's seriously fun!'.
This is a great source of Australian made short films that are flexible teaching and learning resources. The winner and finalists for past competitions are available online. For example, 'Bumper' by Ben McCarthy, is suited to the themes: gifts and talents; identity; family. It's about 'Bumper, the frog, who overlooks his disability and likes what he finds'. Start perusing and previewing these for religious education, english and more at the Trop Jr Showcase via http://www.actf.com.au/education/trop_jr/showcase Comments are welcome especially about how you think any of the past short films could be used in the Australian classroom and curriculum. Presented by the Australian Children’s television foundation, calling all budding film makers and young people with something to say in a creative way. The competition’s Trop Signature Item [TSI] is: Monster Entries open 15 August 2013 Entries close 10 October 2013. For more information, guidelines, how to enter go to http://www.actf.com.au/education/trop_jr/enter or http://tropfest.com/tropjr/enter-tropjr/ { There are two Trop Jr festivals for 2013 only; one already held in February and the upcoming one. This is due to changing the time of year when the festival takes place.} |
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