A book for students telling you how you can create the best project ever!

written by the authors of kidcyber:
Ron Thomas & Shirley Sydenham

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Research by students K-6 : the skills should be taught from early years.

The kidcyber Research Guide: a ten step guide to researching a topic

Bloom's taxonomy & Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

Leap into a Literature Program

Reading aloud to your class: click the title for follow-up activities and a complete classroom literature unit for The Red King by Victor Kelleher. If you would like more literature units like this, email and tell us.

Writing a bibliography

Introduction to the Dewey Decimal System an online kidcyberquest for students

A Research Data Chart suitable for students' note taking

Search engines for kids and teachers a kidcyber list of safe and friendly search engines

Contact a researcher:
us@kidcyber.com.au

kidcyber offers an 'ask a researcher' service where students can request specific information about a topic. Students email kidcyber asking specific questions relating to their assignment. kidcyber will send relevant URLs and/or information.

kidcyber also welcomes requests from teachers for help in planning resources for a classroom topic. For example, our pages about Italy, Antarctica and the Netherlands were prepared following teacher requests.

Recommended Resources

Available Now
Thinking Through Themes
Activities for an Integrated Curriculum
by Ron Thomas and Shirley Sydenham

Four titles:
Air
Water
Earth
Fire

Each book supplies learning centre activities based on Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and the sequential sequential levels of thinking in Bloom's Taxonomy.

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Available from October 2006
Using the Library Books 1-3
by Ron Thomas & Shirley Sydenham

Three books designed for classroom teachers who are required to take classes in the library. Providing a structured, sequential and balanced program to develop independent library users.

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Online resources for use with these books

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/book1resources.html

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/book2resources.html

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/book3resources.html


A recommended kidcyber website of teacher resources:
School Market Place teacher resources page provides a wide range of topics and ideas for teachers, including grammar, reading comprehesion, spelling, writing genres, maths. Also a range of topics in environmental education, science & links to information about Australian Aborigines. There are themes with further information pages and lesson plans, and also webquests and project ideas.


Another kidcyber recommended site


The Wordplay Program is built around developmental learning models that enable young people to improve their communication, literacy and thinking skills.Wordplay is based on the belief that children learn best when they are imaginatively engaged in purposeful learning.

 

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