Planning of my Teacher Resources Page!

                                                                                   

Our task for this assignment was to create an authentic learning resource on an educational topic of your choosing to share with other teachers. Our group decided on creating a project on Canopic Jars, so as it was my job to complete the Teacher Resources page I needed to find the resources that teachers would use in completing this project for the students. I started by finding a lot of background information about Ancient Egypt as in the classroom the students will need this information so they have some understanding of what Ancient Egypt is like and what Canopic Jars are. We found the idea Canopic Jars from a book called 120 Great History Projects that Ashlee already had. I found that this book was a great help for our project as it showed a step by step process in how the students would complete this task and gave a list of all the specific resources that they would need. YouTube, BBC and Discovery gave me some great video for students to become engaged in Ancient Egypt and Canopic Jars. I also found a lot of Interactive Games for students to learn from and enhance their knowledge about the topic. 
Another great thing that our group came across was that the Western Australian Museum had an exhibition on about Ancient Egypt and the Afterlife called Secrets of the Afterlife. I thought that this would be a great place for the students to go for a class excursion. Class excursions are a great way of engaging students in their class work. It gives them another perspective to be out of the classroom and interacting with their topic.
The students will also be blogging so I found a great website called Kidblog. This blogging website is specifically designed to allow primary students to use technology and blog safely. It provides the teacher with administrative control over all student blogs and accounts. I was really happy about finding this blogging site for the students as they are only in primary school I believe the students don't need to be using an adult blogging site for this project. 
Now I have found all this information for my Teacher Resources Page I am off to transfer these resources to my page on our wiki.