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Numeracy involves using mathematical ideas effectively to participate in daily life and make sense of the world. It incorporates the use of numerical, spatial, graphical, statistical and algebraic concepts and skills in a variety of contexts and involves the critical evaluation, interpretation, application and communication of mathematical information in a range of practical situations.

Numeracy is incorporated in the NSW Syllabuses for the Australian curriculum as a general capability alongside other key learning areas across the curriculum areas.

A series of evidence-based resources are available to support teachers to effectively teach numeracy in the classroom, including:

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Numeracy involves using mathematical ideas effectively to participate in daily life and make sense of the world. It incorporates the use of numerical, spatial, graphical, statistical and algebraic concepts and skills in a variety of contexts and involves the critical evaluation, interpretation, application and communication of mathematical information in a range of practical situations.

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Literacy is the ability to understand and evaluate meaning through reading, writing, listening and speaking, viewing and representing ( NSW Literacy K-12 policy, 2007).

Literacy is incorporated in the NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum as a general capability alongside other learning across the curriculum areas.

A series of resources are available to support teachers including:

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Literacy is the ability to understand and evaluate meaning through reading, writing, listening and speaking, viewing and representing ( NSW Literacy K-12 policy, 2007). Literacy is incorporated in the NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum as a general capability alongside other learning across the curriculum areas.

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Phonics is the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes (the sounds of spoken language) and graphemes (the letters that represent them in written language).

Dr Deslea Konza explains that phonics is the relationship between phonemes and graphemes and the importance of this component in learning to read.

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Phonics is the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes (the sounds of spoken language) and graphemes (the letters that represent them in written language). Dr Deslea Konza explains that phonics is the relationship between phonemes and graphemes and the importance of this component in learning to read.

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Authentic learning for Stage 3 students. This integrated study addresses an authentic problem for a school surrounded by bushland.

Watch Inspiring talks from Australian and International leaders in education, innovation and policy reform.

Further information

All STEM advisors can be contacted by emailing stem@det.nsw.edu.au

A list of all advisors is in the contact us information below.

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"It's our country - who else would fight for it?" - Indigenous Australian Servicemen in World War One

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This video features in the app Home Front, a freely available interactive documentary, downloadable form iOS and Android app stores:

OS: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ww1-home-front/id1439871198?mt=8

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.net.abc.homefront

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"To our last man and our last shilling": Life on the Home Front 1914-1919

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OS: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ww1-home-front/id1439871198?mt=8

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.net.abc.homefront

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IN this short film, discover aspects of the history of women who worked in the munitions industry, the Munitionettes, during World War One, and watch a recreation of Munitions Factory No.6, which was locate in Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, UK.

For more, see Women's War, 1914-18 - a freely available app for tablets, available on iOS and Android app stores.

iOS: itunes.apple.com/au/app/ww1-women/id1434245597?mt=8

Android: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.net.abc.womanatwar

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In this short film, learn about some of the experiences of Australian nurses on the Western Front of World War One.

For more, see Women's War, 1914-18 - a freely available app for tablets, available on iOS and Android app stores.

iOS: itunes.apple.com/au/app/ww1-women/id1434245597?mt=8

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Teaching Resources

Gallipoli the First Day is an excellent resource on which to base classroom activity.
Download the study guide (PDF 1.1 Mb)
In addition to the extension activities provided in the above PDF by the Department of Veterans' Affairs, you may like to consider using the App or accompanying website resources for:

Diaries and Letters for Source Analysis exercises;

Oral Histories in the form of video interviews with veterans;

Original photographs for analysis;

The 3D dioramas highlight some of the key decisions made on the day. These provide a great starting point for discussion about the motives and responsibilities of commanders;

The in-map animations show complex troop movements over the landscape in a simple visualisation. This makes it easy to explain some of the strategy objectives of the day to students, and why they failed;

The Story of the Day as a starting point for creative writing exercises;

The campaign overview provides an easy to understand timeline of the major points in the Gallipoli campaign;

The video interviews provide in depth analysis from multiple perspectives for older students;

Radio National programming provides social history context for older students.

References

The Map

The 3D map of the peninsula was built using topographic data construed from 1916 Turkish maps. Surveys of all the Gallipoli battlefields were made in 1916 by the Turkish Mapping Directorate under Brigadier General Mehmet Şevki Paşa and 43 maps were made. As the data is true to the period the map is devoid of contemporary building developments and roads. In terms of detail, it represents approximately 1:10 metre accuracy. Sydney University Archaeology Department supplied the GIS data used to shape and create the terrain's topography.

Books

Aker.S, The Battles of Ariburnu and the 27th Battalion, The Military Journal, Turkish General Staff, Ankara 1935

Austin, Ronald , Gallipoli Encylopedia: An Australian Encyclopedia of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign, Slouch Hat Publications, McCrae, Australia, 2005

Bean, C.E.W., The story of Anzac Volume I in The official history of Australia in the war of 1914-1918, 8th Edition, Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1938

Bean, C.E.W. and Gullett, H.S. (annotated by), Photographic Record of the War: Reproductions of Pictures Taken by the Australian Official Photographers, Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1934

Broadbent, Harvey, Gallipoli, The Fatal Shore, Penguin Books Australia, 1988

Broadbent, Harvey, The Boys Who Came Home: Recollections of Gallipoli, ABC Books, Sydney Australia 2000 (Reprint)

Cameron, David Wayne, 25 April 1915: The day the Anzac Legend was Born, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW 2007

Carlyon, Les, Gallipoli, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney 2001

Cavill, Harold Walter, The Imperishable Anzacs: A story of Australia's Famous First Brigade, William Brooks and Co, 1916

Fewster, K., Basarin,V., Basarin, H.H., Gallipoli: The Turkish Story, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2003.

Kemal Ataturk, Mustafa Complete Works, vol 1, Kaynak Publications, Istanbul, 1998

Shadbolt, Maurice, Voices of Gallipoli, Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, 1988

Steel, N, Gallipoli Lee Cooper (1999)

Winter, Denis, 25 April 1915: The inevitable tragedy, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland 1994

War Diaries/ Official Papers

THURSBY - ORDERS AWM 25 367/156 PP 59-70 and AWM 252 [A10]

Lt Col PRICE-WEIR 10th BATT COMMANDER (DIARY) AWM 4 23/27/2 183/47

SIR WILLIAM BIRDWOOD (PAPERS) AWM 3DRL3376

Unpublished Private Records

Every effort has been made to trace the original source and/ or current copyright holder for the copyright material included in this project. Where these attempts have been unsuccessful, the ABC would be pleased to hear from the copyright holders.

George Deane Mitchell (diary) AWM 2DRL/0928

SGT Henry Cheyney 10TH Batt (diary) AWM 1DRL199

Major A.H. Darnell, 11 BATT. (diary) AWM4/BOX 24, 1 DRL0233

Major Aubrey Darnell (letter) PR 82/175 [PGES 2-10]

James Aitken (letter) 1DRL/0013 [PG 18]

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, 1915 DIARY, STATE LIBRARY NSW A1583 -A 1585

Private John Gordon (diary) AWM PR/89/85

Corporal Hedley Howe 11th Batt (diary) (AWM 2DRL564 38/8042/5)

Private Eric Moorhead (diary) (State Library of Victoria, La Trobe MS10705MSB303)

Anonymous Soldier (diary) (AWM PR84/169)

All archival images appear courtesy of:

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington New Zealand

The Australian War Memorial, Canberra

Harvey Broadbent, Personal Collection

The State Library of Victoria, Melbourne

The Turkish General Staff Archives, Ankara

Radio National Programming

Below are some of the programs produced as part of the 2015 Centenary of World War One. You can also find more on the RN website.
World War One

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For his entire life, Bill Hamburger Senior has been raised to know the truth - that his great-great-grandfather William Tipple Smith was the first to discover gold in New South Wales, 172 years ago.

William Tipple Smith first discovered gold near Bathurst in 1848, but his finds were originally disregarded

Historian Lynette Silver discovered evidence of Tipple Smith's finding while writing a book on the topic in the 1980s

Tipple Smith's great-great-grandson is close to raising the necessary funds to install a headstone at his unmarked burial site

The problem is, history has a different version of events.

"Since I was a boy in the 1930s, my grandmother lived with us and she was a grandchild of Tipple Smith," Mr Hamburger said.

"When I was going to primary school, she said if they try and tell you Hargraves was the first to discover gold, you tell them the truth."

Gold prospector Edward Hargraves is incorrectly credited as being the first man in NSW to discover gold.(Supplied: Lynette Silver)

The Hargraves she refers to is Edward Hargraves, the man credited with first finding gold near Bathurst in 1851.

However, it has since been proven by historian Lynette Silver that William Tipple Smith found gold on the western slopes of the Blue Mountains around 1848.

In the 1980s she found the letters sent by Tipple Smith to British geologist Roderick Murchison held in the Colonial Office in London and filed under someone else's name.

"I found that paperwork that people have been looking for for decades," Ms Silver said.

"Geoffrey Blainey, who is an eminent professor of history, said that the person who can find the missing paperwork will solve the question.

"I sat there looking at this paperwork and I thought 'that person's me'."

The find verified what the Hamburger family and other relatives of steel pioneer Tipple Smith had grown up being told - their great-great-grandad had been denied his place in Australian history.

Righting the wrong with a headstone

Ms Silver found Tipple Smith's grave at Rookwood cemetery, in Lidcombe, as part of her investigation for her book, A Fool's Gold: William Tipple Smith's Challenge to the Hargraves Myth.

William Tipple Smith's burial site is between two headstones at Rookwood cemetery.(Supplied: Lynette Silver)

He is buried in an unremarkable plot without a headstone, but Mr Hamburger is close to raising the money needed to install a headstone with the historical achievement engraved in granite.

Through a Go Fund Me page created by his relatives and some grant money from Bluescope and the NSW Government, Mr Hamburger will soon be able to see a "lifelong ambition fulfilled".

"I'll be overjoyed and I'll be really emotional," he said.

"He was ostracised and all the colony thought he was a fraud, and it's so important to have the truth known.

"I'm one of 12 children and I'm the last of my family still living, so it will be a great achievement for me."

Father of iron and steel industry forgotten to history

William Tipple Smith and his brother Thomas founded the Fitzroy Iron Works in Mittagong in the NSW Southern Highlands, which produced Australia's first iron and steel.

The enterprise would, in time, become BHP.

Lynette Silver has written a book about William Tipple Smith's claim to being the first man to find gold in NSW.(Radio National: Conversations)

Ms Silver said it was disappointing Tipple Smith's contribution to two significant industries was largely unknown.

She said he was "ripped off".

"He basically gave his life, in the end, for his gold exploration and is the father of the iron and steel industry and has been forgotten to history," she said.

"The headstone is being made and before too long Bill will see his great ambition to have his great-great-grandfather remembered properly.

"It's a project I started in 1986 and now hopefully it'll be there written for the whole world to see for a very long time to come."

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GetActive@Home

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GetActive@Home is a range of digital resources to support teachers and parents/carers in keeping students active at home. Each week, GetActive@Home episodes are released on the Department's website and here for students to watch and follow either at home or in the classroom. These are linked to the NSW PDHPE K-10 syllabus and are suitable for primary students. Check out all the resources below.

Students use the activity logbook to track their progress as they watch and participate in the activities each episode. One logbook can be downloaded each week for students to track their progress. These can then be shared with teachers and form part of a physical activity portfolio.

The tracking card is a great way to keep children motivated while being physically active. Children draw a smiley face, stamp or tick a circle each time they watch an episode of GetActive@Home or do any type of physical activity. Each week, they write their score and after 5 weeks, their total score can be tallied. These can be resources can be downloaded at home or printed and sent home in a school pack.

These certificates can be sent to students through the digital classroom or printed and sent home to celebrate their participation in the program. There are three templates available depending on a student's total score from the week's activities - Active Challenger, Super Active Challenger and Mega Active Challenger.

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What works best in online teaching and learning

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AITSL

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Teacher and leaders were telling us that they would love extra support - in addition to resources already available through their system or sector - on topics such as assessment, wellbeing and differentiation. We were keen to help, so we started finding content to bring all together in one place as well as providing a space for teachers to connect and share expertise.

There is a lot of excellent information available across the web, and what we've added here is by no means everything. We will be adding new resources every week, so keep an eye out for updates. Broadly, we used the following criteria to decide whether to include a resource:

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Every child completing the challenge earns a Learn to Speak Robot Certificate of Achievement from the Commissioner for Children and Young People.

Girl Guides and Scouts in South Australia who complete the Challenge automatically qualify for the exclusive 'Speak Robot' embroidered badge.

Schools that are registered and submit their school's Learn to Speak Robot Challenge Completion Form can win useful digital rewards including a double pack of VEX IQ Super Kits, a Virtual Tour for their school's website from EWS and much more.

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Australian Digital Technologies Challenges | Online and unplugged activities for your classroom | Australian Computing Academy

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The Australian DT Challenges are free in-classroom activities for the most challenging aspects of the Year 3-4, Year 5-6 and 7-8 bands of the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies, including algorithms, implementation (coding), data representation and data interpretation.

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How to use with ICT

Create exit tickets, well being/welfare check in or cognitive wrappers using Google or Microsoft Forms and share with students through email, Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams. These platforms allow teachers to collect and access data analytics.

Single computer

Use a printed paper ticket such as the Microsoft Word Exit Ticket Template and collate results on a projected screen in real time, using a simple spreadsheet to generate an on-screen diagram. Use one computer with a Google Form. Click on the settings cog and untick 'collect email addresses'. Check that the 'limit to 1 response' option is unticked. Use one computer with a Microsoft form and click on the share tab to change Send and collect responses to 'Anyone with the link can respond'. Then click on the three dots and choose settings to check that 'one response per person' is unticked.

ICT templates

External resources

Exit ticket from the Teacher Toolkit
Exit ticket (new window)
Explains what, how and when to use Exit tickets. Offers three videos which explain how an early childhood, year four and high-school physics teacher use Exit tickets in their classrooms and includes a downloadable template.

How and when to use Exit Slips by Niels Vanspauwen
How and when to use Exit Slips (new window)
A comprehensive explanation of how and when to use exit slips. Offers an informative video and examples of exit ticket prompts.

Digital exit tickets by Cristina Conciatori
Digital exit tickets (new window)
Summary of four reliable electronic digital exit tickets for teachers includes useful links on how to navigate these digital environments.

Cognitive wrappers by José Antonio Bowen
Cognitive wrappers (new window)
Explains pedagogy and academic research, offers an editable Word template master and cognitive wrapper templates for writing, discussion, science and STEM. All are oriented to senior students.

Disclaimer
Links to third-party websites:
If you use the links provided on this website to access a third party's website, you acknowledge that the terms of use, including licence terms set out on the third party's website apply to the use which may be made of the materials on that third party's website or where permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).

The department accepts no responsibility for content on third-party websites.

Personalised learning

Disability, Learning and Support

When planning to use technology in the classroom it is important to consider the diversity of your learners. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to guide the design of learning environments that are accessible and effective for all. For UDL guidelines, information and additional materials, visit the CAST website.

Many students require technology as an adjustment to support their access to learning. Adjustments (NESA) are actions taken that enable a student with disability and additional learning needs to access syllabus outcomes and content on the same basis as their peers. Enrol in the Personalised learning with technology online course to help you make more informed decisions regarding technology.

For a range of simple, how-to videos visit the Assistive Technology page on the Disability, Learning and Support website. Resources are organised into four sections; Literacy and Learning, Vision, Hearing, Physical and Motor Skills.

High potential and gifted learning and support

When planning to use technology in the classroom it is important to consider the full range of abilities of all learners. High potential and gifted learners may require additional adjustments and deliberate talent development. These strategies include differentiation, grouping, enrichment and advanced learning pathways so students can be engaged, grow and achieve their personal best.

Assessing and identifying high potential and gifted learners will help teachers decide which students may benefit from extension and additional challenge. Effective strategies and contributors to achievement for high potential and gifted learners helps teachers to identify and target areas for growth and improvement.

For further support and advice about how to tailor learning for high potential and gifted students from all backgrounds, visit the High Potential and Gifted Education web section, High Potential and Gifted Education Policy or attend one of the professional learning courses on offer.

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An exit ticket requires students to respond to a few key questions posed at the end of a class, unit of work or summative assessment. Questions can be modified to focus the results around well being and student welfare.

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Are you looking for FREE & cheap STEM ideas? Download or share these resources to help you add STEM to your classroom or help learning continue at home
Got a small budget but want to get some versatile STEM supplies? I made two lists on Amazon to help you shop: https://a.co/d9F4rWz https://a.co/gssP7Bl$1000 budget: Looking for more resources? Here's an A-Z list

Simple STEM Activities for Families (ideas to get your STEM learning started at home or school)

77 STEM Activities for Families in Nature English (PDF) or Spanish (PDF)

77 STEM Activities for Families #3 English (PDF) or Spanish (PDF)

77 STEM Activities for Families #2 English (PDF) or Spanish (PDF)
Thank you to Claudia Larrain, Mauricio Gonzalez, Ekuwah Moses, Ali Robbins, & Khadi Goodside for the translation work!
Super STEM Movies (ideas for using movies to engage kids with STEM)
(Note: Movies are written, directed, & produced to tell a story and make money, not to be used an educational resource. Every movie should be previewed for content that may be inappropriate for your kids)
Ideas for making car rides fun with STEM

Isometric Paper (for drawing 3-d with your students...learn how it works here)

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Educational learning activities to help build knowledge and deeper connections to food production, biodiversity, indigenous perspectives and waste management.

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2017 school theme: Future Earth

The 2017 National Science Week teacher resource book will focus on Australia's sustainability science and highlights those issues that are unique to Australia and our region.

Future Earth book

The Future Earth teaching resource is available as an interactive online flip book and as a downloadable PDF (18MB) that can be printed.

The resource book aim to raise awareness of sustainability science and all of the sciences - social, natural and applied - and encourage positive actions that make a direct contribution to the Earth becoming more sustainable.

Future Earth poster

The Future Earth poster has been created for schools to help them plan their Science Week activities. it lists highlight events in each state and territory and links to other great science resouces. Download and print your own A3 Future Earth poster (4MB, PDF).

Future Earth Initiative

Future Earth launched in 2015 and is a major 10-year international initiative to advance global sustainability science.

Future Earth is a global community of tens of thousands of world-class researchers, projects and institutes brought together around an international research agenda focusing on sustainability science.

The Academy of Science is developing a project office for Future Earth in Australia.

Future Earth's 2025 vision addresses eight key challenges to global sustainability:

Deliver water, energy, and food for all

Decarbonise socio-economic systems to stabilise the climate

Safeguard the terrestrial, freshwater and marine natural assets underpinning human well-being

Build healthy, resilient and productive cities

Promote sustainable rural futures

Improve human health

Encourage sustainable consumption and production patterns

Increase social resilience to future threats.

Get involved

There are a variety of ways you can get your students, class, year level, school and community involved in National Science Week.

Your participation can be as simple as a display in the school library, or as complex as a whole-school science fair. A National Science Week event should:

be fun for the participants

be focused on quality science outcomes

be supportive of your science curriculum

encourage the participants to want to try more science

raise the general profile of science within the community.

A poster and other information about Science Week is posted to every preschool, primary school, high school and TAFE in Australia each year, usually around at the start of Term 2.

School grants

Successful projects were announced in late May. The grant pool of $90 000 is provided by the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.

2016 school theme: Drones, droids and robots

In 2016 we will embrace the 'Technology' in STEM, in particular autonomous technology, with the National Science Week school theme Drones, Droids and Robots.

The theme will centre on the real-world application of autonomous technologies in areas including agriculture, mining, manufacturing, medicine and space and deep ocean exploration. Of course, we will also look at how this technology has transformed our day-to-day lives - from robot vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers to automated pool cleaners.
Schools poster
The theme poster has been sent to every Australian preschool and school, and you can download and print your own copy (2.4 MB, PDF).
Teacher resource book
The Drones, Droids and Robots resource book is available as an interactive online eBook or via download (PDF, 10 MB).
School grants

Applications for school grants of up to $500 are now closed. The successful applicants were announced on 16 May 2016.

2015 school theme and resources

The school theme for National Science Week 2015 is Making waves - the science of light, based on the International Year of Light.

The Making waves: the science of light resource online eBook is now available.

The book was prepared by the Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA) teacher and contains an abbreviated curriculum map of the Australian Curriculum: Science covering years F-10. This has then been used to develop a curriculum map of light topics addressing most content descriptions from the Science Understanding and Science as a Human Endeavour sub-strands.

The book is available as an online eBook or as a 88 page PDF (12 MB) that can be printed.

The National Science Week theme poster for 2015 has been sent to all schools and is also available to download (PDF, 3.3 MB).

2015 school grants

Congratulations to the 263 schools that have been successful in receiving grants of up to $500 to help them conduct a range and variety of science activities during National Science Week. More information.

If you're a school who received a grant, here's a media release template (184 kB, .docx) and an example media release (185 kB, .docx) to help you promote your involvement in National Science Week.

On this page you'll find ideas for help with event ideas and running a school event.Once you've organised your event, ensure that you register it in our event diary. Need more help? Contact your local representative from the Australian Science Teachers Association.

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Daily Do

How Do We Know What Isopods Do?

1. NSTA

2. How Do We Know What Isopods Do?

Welcome to NSTA's Daily Do

Teachers and families across the country are facing a new reality of providing opportunities for students to do science through distance and home learning. The Daily Do is one of the ways NSTA is supporting teachers and families with this endeavor. Each weekday, NSTA will share a sensemaking task teachers and families can use to engage their students inauthentic, relevant science learning.We encourage families to make time for family science learning (science is a social process!) and are dedicated to helping students and their families find balance between learning science and the day-to-day responsibilities they have to stay healthy and safe.

Interested in learning about other ways NSTA is supporting teachers and families? Visit the NSTA homepage.

What is sensemaking?

Sensemaking is actively trying to figure out how the world works (science) or how to design solutions to problems (engineering). Students do science and engineering through the science and engineering practices. Engaging in these practices necessitates students be part of a learning community to be able to share ideas, evaluate competing ideas, give and receive critique, and reach consensus. Whether this community of learners is made up of classmates or family members, students and adults build and refine science and engineering knowledge together.

Introduction

Did you ever wonder about the roly-polies (also known as sow bugs and pill bugs) you find outside when you turn over a rock over or rake away damp leaves? Maybe you've even seen a few in your garage or house. In turns out these roly-polies are terrestrial isopods which are related to shrimp and lobsters! Although, maybe you're not too surprised based on their looks.

In today's task, How do we know what isopods do?, students and their families engage in science and engineering practices to begin to make sense of the science idea animals have external structures that serve various functions in growth, survival and behavior while becoming more familiar (and hopefully less fearful) of terrestrial isopods.

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Preparing for the Task

Terrestrial isopods go by many common names such as roly-poly, sow bug, and pill bug. They are small land-dwelling crustaceans that are related to shrimp and lobsters. The best time to collect terrestrial isopods (isopods) is between spring and fall.
Materials (per student or student pairs)
small container with well-fitting lid

cotton ball, paper towel (1/2 sheet), or small piece of sponge

*hand lens or magnifying glass (optional)

ruler (optional)

large container (6 inches or longer)

objects to place in large container (small rock, coin, twig, leaves, folded bits of paper, etc.)

variety of food scraps (potato, apple, orange, lettuce, carrot, bread, cereal, etc.)

*Students might also use cell phone or tablet camera to magnify the isopods

Prior to heading outside, students need to prepare the container for the isopods:

1. Poke 3-5 holes in the lid of the container.

2. Dip the cotton ball water to get it wet and then squeeze out the excess water. (The cotton ball should be damp; if the cotton ball is dripping water it's too wet.)

3. Place the cotton ball in the container and put on the lid

Share with students where to look for isopods - under rocks, dead logs, dead vegetation, and other objects that keep the soil and air underneath damp (lift the objects to expose the isopods). Describe to students how to pick up the isopods without harming them:

Gently touch the end of the isopod with your finger and allow it to walk onto your other hand, OR

Put your thumb and index finger on either side of the isopod and gently pick it up (be careful not to squeeze the isopod).

Students should place their isopods in their prepared containers. Each student should try to collect 10 isopods, but it's OK if they find fewer.

Remind students and their families to wash their hands with soap and water after handling the isopods.

Now you're ready to begin today's task!

Part 1: What do isopods look like?

Students may be familiar with isopods, but may never have carefully observed them. In this first part of the task, students observe and describe an isopod and wonder about behaviors an isopod uses to survive.

Instruct students to gently transfer one isopod into the large (empty) container. Ask students to describe the isopod using words and pictures. Encourage them to use a hand lens, magnifying lens, or reading glasses to observe the isopod more closely. If students have a cell phone or tablet with a camera, they can take and enlarge a picture to reveal more details of the isopod's structure.

If you notice students' descriptions are mostly qualitative (small, lots of legs, brown), ask, "How could you quantify your descriptions?" (measure the length with a ruler, count number of antennae/legs/segments)

If students are reluctant to draw, tell them not to worry about making the drawing look exactly like the isopod. Ask them to focus on the capturing the details; if the isopod has seven segments, make sure to draw seven even if your segments don't look exactly like the segments on the isopod.

Tell students to return the isopod to the main container and put on the lid. Remind students to wash their hands with soap and water.

Ask students to predict how the isopod uses its external parts to survive and to include why they say so.

Allow the isopods to recover in their container for at least 10 minutes before moving to Part 2.

Part 2: What do isopods do?

Tell students they are going to observe the behavior of isopods.

First, ask students to fill the large container with objects that have a variety of textures (such as rocks, sticks, leaves, small pieces of folded paper, craft sticks, and/or coins).

Finally, tell students to gently place all of the isopods they collected in the container.

Give students a few minutes to observe the isopods in the container (without recording in the data table). Ask students, "What do isopods do?" You might choose to create a class list of observed behaviors (walking, moving antennae, touching objects with antennae, climbing, etc.)

If you've made a class list of behaviors, ask students to record them in their behaviors table. Ask students to keep track of how many times they see each behavior in five minutes (however long you choose). If keeping track of 10 isopods is overwhelming, tell students to choose a specific area of the large container to observe.

Tell students, "Look back at your predictions of how the isopod uses its external structures to survive. How do your predictions compare to your observations? Record your reflection below your predictions."

Direct students to gently return the isopods to the container with the damp cotton ball and close the lid and then wash their hands with soap and water.

Allow the isopods to recover in their container for at least 10 minutes before moving to Part 3.

Part 3: What food will isopods choose?

Tell students they are going to figure out which types of food isopods prefer to eat. (Isopods will eat many different types of food, but they do prefer some types of foods over others.)

First, share the Isopod Food Choices data table with students or ask them to draw the table on blank paper (or student notebook).

Provide students with food scraps they can feed their isopods and ask them to choose three different pieces of food to add to the large container for the first food choice trial. Tell students to record the three foods in the data table and predict which food they think the isopod will choose.

Next, ask students to gently place the 10 isopods in the container with food and observe (1) the behaviors the isopods use to find food and (2) the food(s) the isopods choose to eat.

Remove the isopods from the large container when they begin to eat the chosen food(s) to ensure thy are still hungry for the next trial.

Repeat the investigation choosing three new foods OR keep the food(s) the isopods chose and replace the uneaten food(s) with a new type of food.

After three trials, direct students to gently return the isopods to the container with the damp cotton ball and close the lid and then wash their hands with soap and water.

Ask students to form groups of two to four people and share their results. (Which foods did the isopods choose? Did all students in the group have the same results? Do students see a pattern in the food choices if the results were not the same?)

Ask students to compare the isopods' food-finding behaviors they observed. (What did the isopods do? Which external body parts did they use? How did they use them?)

Tell students to return the isopods to the outdoors in a place similar to the place they found them.

Next Time You See a Pill Bug

Do you and your students want to find out more about terrestrial isopods? Share the Biology of Terrestrial Isopods student guide written by Dr. Ron Wagler (author of the NSTA Press Book Adventures with Arthropods: Eco-Friendly Lessons for Middle School).

You might also share the NSTA Press Book Next Time You See a Pill Bug by Emily Morgan. Watch the author read the book aloud in the video below.

NSTA Collection of Resources for Today's Daily Do

NSTA has created a How do we know what isopods do? collection of resources to support teachers and families using this task. If you're an NSTA member, you can add this collection to your library by clicking ADD TO MY LIBRARY located near the top of the page (at right in the blue box).

Check Out Previous Daily Dos from NSTA

The NSTA Daily Do is an open educational resource (OER) and can be used by educators and families providing students distance and home science learning. Access the entire collection of NSTA Daily Dos.

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Like the whole world, the Short & Curly team is dealing with the coronavirus. In this special episode, Matt, Carl and Molly talk about how working together when things get hard can make a big difference for everyone. And Carl learns that wearing lycra and doing jazzercise is great fun when you're in isolation!

If you're doing it a bit tough and need some help there are a bunch of places you get in touch with:

Youth Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636
Reach out  https://au.reachout.com/
Parent help line 1300 30 1300
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Posted by Peter Thomas |

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 01:20 PM (EST)

Are you feeling anxious or stressed about what you're seeing online or on TV - or hearing from other people? Here are some easy mindfulness techniques to help you stay chill.

It's impossible to completely eliminate some of the things that cause us to be stressed. And a certain level of challenge is useful in our lives - otherwise, we might sit in bed all day eating party pies and posting on social media.

But what you can do is manage your stress.

One way to do this is to meditate. Meditation is where you try to focus on one thing and tune out from what's around you, sometimes by chanting a mantra. It's easier said than done, and some people who live at the top of mountains practise for years to get it right.

Or you can do yoga. Get out your mat, kit yourself in activewear and get all stretchy.

Breathe

But you don't have to do yoga to manage your stress. It turns out the very best thing you can do is to learn to breathe.

Breathing is cool. It slower reduces cortisol (often referred to as a "stress hormone") and helps gets you back to a state of equal balance.

And the good news is: you don't need to go to a yoga class or a Buddhist monastery to do it. You can do it right now.

Close your eyes.

Breathe in through your nose for 4 seconds.

Hold your breath for 4 seconds.

Breathe out for 4 seconds.

Keep your lungs empty for 4 seconds.

Repeat all this 4 times.

You should feel just a little bit calmer.

You can deep breathe anywhere - in class, at home, while watching TV - and you don't need to close your eyes at all.

Mindfulness

You can go further and practise what is called "mindfulness". It's a cross between meditation and deep breathing.

In mindfulness, you try to clear your mind of thoughts and just breathe.

When a thought comes into your head, try to imagine it's a cloud crossing the empty sky. If you have a thought like "I'm worried about that assignment", try to stop yourself doing any more worrying. Just let the thought drift by like a cloud.

This can be quite hard, so start small with a minute of mindfulness and work your way up to longer and longer.

Luckily, the people who practise mindfulness have some neat tricks to help you out.

One is called the "body scan". You can try it right now.

Sit in a chair and close your eyes. Breathe slowly. Then, starting at your little toe, focus on each part of your body as you slowly move your attention up your body until you get to the very top of your head.

You'll find that you've spent a long time thinking about nothing else and breathing deeply. This will help you feel more in balance. This will help slow your heart rate. This will help you feel calm.

Like deep breathing, you can practise mindfulness anywhere, at any time. You might only get 30 seconds, but it's better than nothing. It's like doing a mini tune-up for your stress levels.

What's this got to do with learning?

Good question. You've been paying attention.

When your body is in balance, your brain works better.

The areas of your brain responsible for learning will function more efficiently. This means you take in more information and remember it. You can recall it more quickly and make more connections between different ideas. This is a good thing if you want to do your best in your schoolwork.

Practising mindfulness also helps keep you healthy. Your body functions more efficiently, and you can deal with the usual bumps and scrapes and headaches we all get without getting stressed about them.

And this is not just some strange made up nonsense. Lots and lots of scientific studies support it, and there are hospitals that use mindfulness to help patients deal with pain or overcome anxiety from traumatic events.

So try to practise a little bit of breathing or mindfulness every day. You can do it just before an online class starts or when it's finished or at a set time.

There are also tons of mindfulness apps to help out, if you want to try them, like the free Smiling Mind app.

Or check out series 4 of the Mindfully podcast, which is especially for students - made in collaboration between the ABC and Smiling Mind. There are episodes to help you get the most out of learning, get happy, love yourself and relax.

Check out more helpful ways you can level-up your online learning with this student handbook.

To talk with someone about mental health call the Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or visit headspace, beyondblue or ReachOut.

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Red dragonfly mathematics challenge
© 2010 State of NSW Department of Education and Communities

Edited by Peter Gould, Masami Isoda, and Foo Chuan Eng.
Adapted from the Math Brain Quiz (Red) by Yasuhiro Hosomizu (2006), Sansu Nou Training: Toyokan, originally in Japanese.

Copyright of the English translation of the Math Brain Quiz (Red) is reserved by Masami Isoda.

Cover artwork and red dragonfly images by Stephen Axelsen.

ISBN 9780731386949
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Talk moves

Classroom talk is a powerful tool for both teaching and learning. Rich, dialogic talk supports students in making sense of complex ideas and builds classroom communities centred around meaning-making. 'Talk moves' are the tools used by teachers to support rich, meaningful classroom discussion in mathematics.

Posters, flashcards and a chart have been created for teachers to use in the classroom. It aims to help prompt the following:

Mathematics diagnostic tasks

A new Stage 2 mathematics resource, titled Mathematics Stage 2 Diagnostic Tasks (PDF 2284.3KB), is designed to gather evidence of student learning related to Stage 2 key ideas contained in the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus. This resource may assist teachers to:

make professional judgments about student progress,

tailor teaching and learning experiences, and

support students' transition in mathematics learning between Stages 2 and 3.

Mathematics Stage 2 diagnostic tasks Adobe Connect is a 30 minute Adobe Connect recording to familiarise and support you in using this resource. It includes information about:

the introduction section

how to use this resource

ways to support students

task considerations

how you can access this resource

other diagnostic tasks available.

Transcript of Mathematics Stage 2 diagnostic tasks Adobe Connect.

The contains Numeracy skills framework website diagnostic assessment resources to assist teachers accurately identify the skills, knowledge and understanding of students. They are intended to be a diagnostic snapshot of the key ideas and concepts from the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus.

Red dragonfly mathematics challenge provides a range of easily understood problems to challenge and stimulate student interest and reward perseverance.

Developing efficient numeracy strategies

The developing efficient numeracy strategies (DENS) resources provide teachers with ideas and activities to support the teaching and learning of numeracy.

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Whether you are visiting NRICH for the first time or you are one of our regular users, this page outlines how the NRICH team are working to support rich mathematical learning opportunities for everyone during this period of disruption.

NRICH welcomes millions of users every year to share our free, online mathematical activities for learners aged 3-19. We have a huge bank of award-winning resources, ideal for children and students to work on independently while schools are closed, and for teachers to use when teaching remotely. We have created some collections of our best resources for independent learning to share with you, which you can explore below. (Scroll down further and you'll also find some guidance for parents and carers.)

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Resources for teaching STEM to students.

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Engaging interactive tasks and printable worksheets that introduce, reinforce and recycle vocabulary. Activities are self-paced, self-correcting and help students practise listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Free! No registration and no in-app purchases!

Vocabulary flash cards

Variety of activities

Songs and karaoke!

Printable support resources

Students can track their progress

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French (8 Topics)

Indonesian (24 topics)

Italian (8 Topics)

Japanese (20 topics)

Ready to play activities

When Flash Stops working!

The interactives will stop working in December 2020 when all browsers block Adobe Flashplayer

Other resources such as the worksheets will continue to be available

Try the Languages Online app. It has topics in French, Italian, Japanese and Indonesian.

We are currently exploring options for the future of Languages Online

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In these times of uncertainty, youcubed is here to help students at home continue to explore and learn maths in rich and creative ways. We are collecting here modified versions of our tasks to be more home-friendly, as well as some new explorations designed for learners at home.

Please help us distribute these to anyone who might use them and share your students' work with our community using the hashtag #YoucubedAtHome in social media.

HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS: learn to teach our data science course this fall in ten 2-hour, online, afternoon (Pacific) sessions! More info here

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Please find a range of resources on this site to support teaching and learning from home. The resources were developed by Department of Education teachers from 25 Environmental and Zoo Education Centres in NSW. Some resources are designed for teachers, others are designed for student use.

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Through 36 inspirational stories of animal rescue, rehabilitation, and humane conservation being performed at the world's leading zoological institutions, and 18 lesson plans developed by teacher-trusted Resources for Learning and tied to ELA and SEL competencies, Humane Heroes provides highly engaging free reading materials that also encourage young people to appreciate and protect Earth's disappearing species.

We believe that these stories deserve your attention. You can read the book descriptions of this 3-book series and download the eBooks by clicking the link of your preferred eBook provider above.

We're proud to share that Volume I won the national 2020 Teacher's Choice Award for the Classroom! Some of the animals you'll meet in Volume I, which is appropriate for young readers, are:

A puppy and a cheetah cub who grew up together

An adopted gorilla family

Some not-so-scary sharks

We recommend Volumes I and II for middle school readers. In Volume II, some of the animals and caregivers you'll meet are:

Two orphaned bear cubs who find a home

A middle school class that used 3D printing to help a penguin

Elephants who helped doctors fight cancer in humans

All three volumes can be read by young adults and those who are older. In Volume III, you'll meet these animals:

African elephants who were saved from slaughter

A gray whale who was heroically rescued

A lizard who scientists helped by making him a prosthetic foot

If you can't visit the facilities featured in these books, we encourage you to visit www.HumaneConservation.org to find a facility that has been Humane Certified by American Humane.

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We're bringing the zoo to you!

We're on a mission to make you smile and Animals at Home may be just be the escape you need.

Bring the zoo to life from anywhere around the world with live cams, keeper talks and other virtual updates.

Virtual Zoo Tours

Enjoy a virtual tour of our three wonderful zoos.

Keeper talks

Join us every week for our animal keeper talk series where you can meet the keepers and learn more about the animals at our zoos.

NEW - Dingos of Healesville Sanctuary

Virtual animal encounters

Sit down and enjoy being transported to Healesville Sanctuary for the Wade with the Platypus or Werribee Open Range Zoo for a Giraffe Encounter!

While the community focuses on looking after people, we'll keep looking after wildlife - but we need your help.

Live animal cams

Check out the 24/7 live streams or watch the limited-time-only appearances from other special guests. If you missed it, you can catch up on what you missed by clicking back on the red line underneath the video.

Can't see the animals on the live cams? That's because our animals live in areas that are much bigger than what a camera can capture.

Resident live streams (running 24/7)

Otters at Melbourne Zoo

Welcome Paula, Odie and their Asian Small-clawed Otter family to Animals at Home! If you notice things getting a little rough in the den, don't worry, it's just Papa Odie teaching his new pups all about play wrestling!

Get to know our OTTERS

Paula - female, born June 3 2010 at Frankfurt Zoo

Odie - male, born January 15 2017 at Singapore Zoo

Murphy - male, born February 4 2020

Rodney - male, born February 4 2020

Gunther - male, born February 4 2020

Squid - female, born February 4 2020

Penguins at Melbourne Zoo

Feeding times

Between 9-10.30am and between 3-4pm daily (please note feeding times are subject to change)

Get to know our Fiordland Penguins

Edward - Has a cross beak and loves to be the centre of attention

Kim - Slightly smaller and has a straight beak

Fiordland Penguins are about three times larger than our Little Penguins and have yellow crests above their eyes.

Get to know our Little Penguins

Miss Wing (female) - Two white wing tags

Nippet (female) - Red and white wing tags

Wicket (Male) - Green and dark blue wing tags

Homer (Male) - Green and yellow wing tags

Giraffes Melbourne Zoo

FEEDing TIMES

8.45am, 12pm and 4pm daily (please note feeding times are subject to change)

Get to know our GIRAFFES

Nakuru (female) - Our biggest Giraffe. Eight years old, born in Auckland Zoo, New Zealand.

Klintun (male) - Our littlest Giraffe. One year old, born in Altina Wildlife Park in NSW.

Snow Leopard cubs (and mum, Miska!) at Melbourne Zoo

Feeding times

The cubs are usually fed sometime between 9am and 10am each morning.

Get to know THE CUBS

After a brief trip to explore a different habitat, Miska and her Snow Leopard cubs, Sikari, Manju and Asha, are back on Animals at Home. The three cubs, Sikari, Manju and Asha, were born on 26 January to first time mum Miska and dad Kang-Ju.

Zebras at Melbourne Zoo

If you can't see the zebras, they're probably off visiting their best friends - the giraffes!

FEEDING TIMES

8.15am, 12pm and 3.45pm daily (please note feeding times are subject to change)

Get to know our zebras

Chozi (male) - 12 years old, look our for his unusual stripe pattern on his legs.

Zuri (male) - 12 years old, Chozi's half brother and generally always with Chozi.

Kwasi (male) - Seven years old and has thick dark stripes and no shadow stripe (thinner grey stripes between black stripes).

Zaire (male) - Four years old and is the smallest and fluffiest.

Lions at Werribee Open Range Zoo

Meet the lazy African Lions of Werribee Open Range Zoo. How many can you spot?

Scroll down for more live animal cams...

Zoo Members, visit the VIP Zone now

Access other online content, virtual talks and behind-the-scenes content.

Rewatch the special guest live cams

Catch up on the limited-time-only live streams and keep an eye out for more special guest appearances to come!

The butterflies of Melbourne Zoo for Australian Pollinator Week!

Spinifex Hopping Mouse at Healeville Sanctuary

Meerkats at Melbourne Zoo

Red Pandas at Melbourne Zoo

Elephants at Melbourne Zoo

The Butterfly House at Melbourne Zoo

Meerkats of Werribee Open Range Zoo

Tree-kangaroos at Healesville Sanctuary

Savannah at Werribee Open Range Zoo

Otters at Melbourne Zoo

Echidnas at Healesville Sanctuary

Land of Parrots at Healesville Sanctuary

Noojee the Koala at Healesville Sanctuary

Tree-kangaroos at Healesville Sanctuary

Unlock all our online experiences by becoming a member today

Gain access to the exclusive online Member VIP Zone and enjoy unlimited entry to the zoo.

Members get more!

Only $9.50 a month over 12 months

Unlimited entry to Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Open Range Zoo and Healesville Sanctuary (daily capacity restrictions apply)

Kids join free on adult memberships

Free entry to five interstate zoos

Discounts at the Zoo Shop and from our zoo partners

Help fund our conservation work to fight wildlife extinction

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Taronga TV | Taronga Conservation Society Australia

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Inspiring presentations from the world's best photographers.

Nikon Live brings you all the excitement, education and inspiration of live photography and videography presentations from some of the world's greatest photographers.

Rewatch recent events.

Introducing the Z 9

Rewatch the worldwide launch event for the Z 9 mirrorless camera, including product tours, feature highlights, behind the scenes footage and panel discussions with top professional photographers and filmmakers.

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Creators Hour on Assignment

Eleven creators. Two amazing new cameras. See what they did, how they did it, and what they thought about taking on their task and being the first to create with the new Z 6II and Z 7II cameras from Nikon. Come see what happens creativity is put to the test.

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Unscripted

Nikon Live: Unscripted brings you casual, off-the-cuff conversations with the top photo and video professionals in the industry. Join us live from Nikon's in-house studio as we talk gear, shooting philosophy and all things photography.

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Wedding & Portrait Photography International

WPPI is the largest show for professional, amateur and emerging wedding and portrait photographers and filmmakers. During the event, Nikon Ambassadors and photographers share tips, advice and techniques for capturing amazing portraits and wedding photographs and videos.

Watch it Here

Consumer Electronics Show

For more than 50 years, CES has been the global stage for innovation in consumer technologies. The Nikon booth at CES hosts live presentations and panel discussions from Nikon Ambassadors and photographers throughout the event covering topics from outdoor adventure to landscape and nature to iconic rock legends and so many more.

Watch it Here

Z 50 Mirrorless Camera Panel Discussion

Learn all about the new Nikon Z 50 mirrorless camera and hear from photographers who have had a chance to use the camera.

Watch it Here

NAB Show

NAB Show is the ultimate event for media, entertainment and technology professionals looking for new and innovative ways to create, manage, deliver and monetize content on any platform. Nikon showcases its groundbreaking technology along with keynotes and panel discussions from Nikon Ambassadors and professional cinematographers and videographers.

Watch it Here

PhotoPlus Expo

PhotoPlus is the largest annual photography event in the US offering classes, workshops and featuring new innovations in camera equipment, tech and software. Nikon's booth at PhotoPlus showcases the latest Nikon mirrorless Z series cameras, DSLRs, Nikkor lenses and outstanding presentations by Nikon Ambassadors and photographers.

Watch it Here

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We care about your students' privacy. CoSpaces Edu takes student privacy very seriously and is COPPA and FERPA-compliant.

We have several measures in place to make sure that the data that you and your students store in CoSpaces Edu is always kept safe.

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CoSpaces Edu for kid-friendly 3D creation and coding

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DailyGeo is a short, digital news blast highlighting the ubiquitous nature of geography's role in headline stories. This resource is comprised of 3 main sections: "Where in the World," "Thumbs Up," and a "GeoQuestion." Occasionally, DailyGeo includes one of the following special sections: "Maps Do it Better," "A Cartographer's Quandary" and "The Arternative World." DailyGeo is delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday.

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