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With AhaSlides, you create a presentation with interactive slides in which you ask questions of your audience. When you present your presentation at your 'event' (maybe a team meeting, online webinar, lesson or quiz night) your audience can join your presentation by typing a URL or scanning a QR code with their phone or tablet. You proceed through each of the slides one-by-one, like in a normal presentation. At each slide, the audience will be able to interact in some way, depending on the slide type you are using.

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Free interactive presentation software. Live polls, quizzes, beautiful real-time charts & word clouds. No installation, no download, easy to use.

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This website presents a number of news articles about Science.

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We’re here for the science - the funny side of science. Quotes, jokes, memes and more. We’re dedicated to bringing the amazing world of science to you!

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Features over 300+ simulations covering a wide variety of science topics from biology, chemistry and physics. Amplify the learning experience of lessons and conduct your favourite experiments with Labster!

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Discover Labster's award-winning virtual lab catalog for skills training and science theory. Browse simulations in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and more.

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The AITSL Standards guide the work of teachers and it is important all teachers look to incorporate each standard and sub standard to the best of their abilities in the profession.

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This is one of many articles that students can use to gain an insight into scientific concepts. 10,770 resources showcase cutting-edge science and demonstrate how the stories of science can be used to enrich school teaching and learning, making it more relevant, engaging and meaningful.

Wing loading is a measurement that relates the mass of an aircraft or bird to the total wing area. This resource provides an interactive for students to compare flight capabilities of planes with birds, matching those that are the most similar.

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You can tell a great deal about how a bird lives or what a plane has been designed for just from its wing shape and size. Wings of both birds and planes determine how they might perform or what they might be capable of (for example, gliding, sustained high speed or manoeuvrability). One way in which…

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This is another clip of many videos avalaible. In this clip, we explore the properties of two familiar forces experienced in daily life, and of two less familiar ones.

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A hand writes on a sheet of paper, illustrating the talk. '4FF by Kate Dent'KATE DENT

So basically, our universe is governed by four fundamental forces. Without these forces, the universe would consist of billions and billions of spread out tiny particles floating around in space. Here's how the fundamental forces keep us from falling apart.

Firstly, all matter is made of atoms, which are made of electrons and the nucleus, which is made of protons and neutrons, which are made of quarks. Quarks are indivisible, but how do they stay together, you may ask. Well, here's where our first force comes in.The strong force was creatively named because it is the strongest of all four forces, being roughly 100 million, million, million, million, million, million times stronger than gravity, but has an incredibly small range. The best way to describe the strong force is that the quarks have a rubber band surrounding them. They can move around, but if they stray too far, the strong force yanks them back in with enormous strength. This force is also active on a slightly larger scale, keeping the protons and the neutrons together.The weak force is related to the strong force, being that it also acts inside the nucleus of an atom. The weak force gets its name because - you've guessed it - it's weaker than the strong force. The weak force can change protons to neutrons by tampering with their quarks. It is responsible for some dangerous things like radioactive materials, but also keeps the sun shining and allows for carbon-14 dating.Stronger than the weak force is electromagnetism. As discovered by French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb, electromagnetism means objects with opposite charges attract, while objects with like charges repel. Now, you might be wondering why the positive protons in an atom's nucleus don't fly away from each other. Well, luckily the universe planned for this, and made the electromagnetic force 100 times weaker than the strong force. Electromagnetism means we are protected from the solar winds by Earth's magnetic field, our electrons don't fly into space and we have electricity.Gravity is the force we're most acquainted with. Despite what people expect, gravity is actually the weakest of all the fundamental forces. Yes, that's right. The force that keeps us from flying off into space at over 1,600km/h and keeps the Earth in orbit around the Sun is the weakest. Reassuring, isn't it?Einstein's theory of general relativity explains that gravity is simply distortions in the fabric of the universe caused by mass and energy. The more mass or energy an object has, the larger the attractive force. However, there are many questions surrounding gravity. The greatest conundrum is that physicists can't seem to unify gravity with the three other forces. Once physicists can do this, it might just result in the theory of everything.Will the theory of everything change your daily life? Probably not, but it will give scientists the knowledge to further explore our fascinating universe, and uncover what really makes it tick.
The hand writes 'Thank you'
Subjects: Science

Years: 9-10

We all know something about gravity, but what about the other fundamental forces of physics?

Explore the properties of two familiar forces experienced in daily life, and of two less familiar ones.

How do they interact, and what keeps everything from falling apart?

This video was Kate Dent's entry into the 2013 Sleek Geeks Eureka Science Schools Prize competition.

Things to think about

1. 1.Simply put, a force is the result of an interaction between two objects. We usually describe force in terms of a push or a pull. The force of gravity, for example, holds us on our planet. What are some other examples? Think about an atom and its smaller particles. What forces act to hold the various particles of matter together?

2. 2.What does Kate say would happen if the four fundamental forces did not exist? Listen closely for the points where Kate discusses each of the forces (strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravitational) and note down the answer to these questions for each of them: Where does this force act? How strong is it relative to the other forces? Over what distance does it act? Why is the force important?

3. 3.Devise a table, with illustrations, to summarise the properties of the four fundamental forces. Give examples of why each force is important. What is an analogy? In her presentation, Kate uses analogies to help with explanations. What analogies did she use and did they help your understanding? Why or why not?

4. 4.Kate mentions an obstacle to not having a 'Theory of Everything'. What is it? Do you think it might ever be possible? Our knowledge of forces and particle physics has been built up over time. Investigate some of the main developments and the significant people involved. What are particle accelerators? Investigate how their development has advanced our understanding of particle physics.

Acknowledgements

This film was made by Kate Dent. It was highly commended in the 2013 University of Sydney Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize, Secondary.

The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes reward excellence in research & innovation, leadership & commercialisation, science communication & journalism and school science. More information is available here: australianmuseum.net.au/eureka

Copyright
Metadata © Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Education Services Australia Ltd 2012 (except where otherwise indicated). Digital content © Australian Broadcasting Corporation (except where otherwise indicated). Video © Australian Broadcasting Corporation (except where otherwise indicated). All images copyright their respective owners. Text © Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Education Services Australia is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Teachers and students can use these Smart Board games, games, activities and lessons to learn about Science and many other subjects.

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80 million professionals trust SlideShare to learn about any topic quickly from subject matter experts. Founded in 2006 with the goal of making knowledge sharing easy, Slideshare has since grown into a top destination for professional content. With over 18 million uploads in 40 content categories, it is today one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world.

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There are a number of simulations however I have chosen how to build an atom as the exemplar. To look at more simulations click the following link: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?subjects=chemistry&type=html,prototype

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Build an atom out of protons, neutrons, and electrons, and see how the element, charge, and mass change. Then play a game to test your ideas!

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This is an excellent interactive Periodic Table that can prove useful in demonstrating and understanding the basics of Chemisty.

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Interactive periodic table showing names, electrons, and oxidation states. Visualize trends, 3D orbitals, isotopes, and mix compounds. Fully descriptive writeups.

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This is just one of many videos avalaible. In this clip, three classroom chemistry experiments demonstrate that some familiar magic tricks rely on acid-base chemical reactions, and the properties and behaviour of gases.

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NARRATOR:

Disappearing ink. Trick birthday candles that re-light after extinguishing. Pushing an egg through the mouth of a bottle without breaking. These tricks seem to defy the laws of nature, but they're not magic. One of the roles of chemistry is to demystify the unknown.
Text on screen - 'Demystifying Magic Tricks. What makes tricks tick?'
NARRATOR:

So let's apply a little chemistry to reveal the mysteries behind these magic tricks.
Text on screen - 'Disappearing Ink.' A piece of fabirc has been stained with purple dye. The dye fades away. Michael Ferguson, chemistry teacher at DeMatha High School, narrates.
MICHAEL FERGUSON:

In the case of disappearing ink, the explanation's actually pretty simple.
Text on screen - 'How does it work?' Shot of Michael in a science classroom with two assistants. Containers, test tubes and beakers line the bench.
MICHAEL FERGUSON:

Alright, so what we're gonna do next is we're gonna make disappearing ink. What we have in front of us is our four ingredients. We have regular water, we have ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, we have an acid base indicator called phenolphthalein...
Text on screen - 'Phenolphthalein. Use thymolphthalein instead to produce blue disappearing ink.'
MICHAEL FERGUSON:

..and we have a strong base, sodium hydroxide. We're gonna mix about 1ml of phenolphthalein with 10ml of ethanol. Now, Eugene, using the glass stirrer next to you, just slowly, gently start to stir that. Now Cameron's gonna add in the 90ml of water. Should see it start to change a little bit. Should form a little hazy solution. Good. Cameron, using the eye-dropper and the sodium hydroxide continue to, drop wise, add in that base until we see a colour change.
Cameron stirs the hazy liquid solution in a beaker. Dissolve to it later. It is a purple-ish red.
MICHAEL FERGUSON:

OK, that phenolphthalein chemical that we added in first - the 1ml - that's called an acid base indicator. It's gonna change colour depending on the pH of the solution we're dealing with.
Text on screen - 'The pH Scale.' A scale starting at 0, which is red, goes up to 7, which is white, all the way through to 14, which is blue, the colours graduating in between. Anything with red in it is labelled 'acidic', anything with blue in it is labelled 'basic'.
MICHAEL FERGUSON:

To tell whether a solution is acidic or basic, scientists use a quantity called 'pH'. A solution is acidic if its pH is between 0 and 7 and is basic if its pH is between 7 and 14. A very low pH means that a solution is very acidic, and a pH close to 14 means that a solution is very basic. The sodium hydroxide that we mixed in is a very, very strong base. So if you remember your pH scales, what we've done is we've tipped the scales so that the solution in front of us is strongly basic. If we splash this mix solution onto some cotton fabric, it's gonna appear to be a very deep red stain which would get you in trouble with the parents, but this indicator's only going to stay red as long as the solution is skewed one way. If we can bring this solution back to neutral, the colour will disappear. As the solution mixes with the carbon dioxide in the air, what it's gonna form in solution is what's called 'carbonic acid'.
Text on screen - 'CO2 + H20 = H2CO3 (Carbonic Acid).'
MICHAEL FERGUSON:

The carbonic acid and the sodium hydroxide are gonna undergo an acid-base neutralisation, so our pH of 7 - neutral - no longer have any stain to be upset about.
Text on screen - 'Candles You Can't Blow Out.' Four students stand at a workbench in the science classroom. A cupcake with four candles sits on the workbench.
STUDENT 1:

Happy birthday, Mo.
Student 1 lights up the candles on the cupcake. Text on screen - 'The cupcake is used for display purposes only. Never eat in a laboratory environment.'
STUDENT 3:

So, you're four, then? (Chuckles)

MO:

Can I blow 'em out now? You guys wanna sing for me?

STUDENT 3:

Not really.

MO:

Oh.

ALL:

# Happy birthday to you. #
Mo chuckles and blows out the candles. As he steps back, the candles light up again.
MO:

OK.

STUDENT 1:

What?

MO:

Wait a minute. Let me try that again.
Mo repeatedly blows at the candles. Every time they go out, after a moment they flicker back into life.
MO:

Wait. Alright, hold on, hold on.
Mo cups his hands and blows through them. The candles finally blow out for good.
MO:

Yes!

STUDENT 4:

Alright, there we go.

MO:

Whoo! Eugene, no high five? Yes.
Eugene, student 1, high fives Mo. The students laugh.
MO:

Why?
Text on screen - 'How does it work?'
MICHAEL FERGUSON:

To understand how this trick works, let's see how a regular candle works. In a regular candle, the wick is saturated with wax, so when you light the candle, the flame melts, vaporises and ignites the wax. This burning wax then heats the wax of the main candle, and melts it. Then the liquid wax rises in the wick and is vaporised by the flame. The reason the lower part of the exposed wick does not burn but the wax burns instead, is because the vaporising wax cools it and prevents the wick from burning. This explains why the little part of the wick that burns is only at the tip where the wax has completely evaporated. After the flame has been blown out, it goes out because the draught blows away the wax vapour, which was the only hot part when the candle was lit. In a magic candle, finely divided particles of metal, usually magnesium, have been added to the wick. These particles ignite easily and burn hot enough to ignite the wax vapour after the flame has been blow out. If you look up close, you can see these white-hot particles flashing off the wick. There's no magic here - just particles of metal that help reignite the candles.
Text on screen - 'Egg In The Bottle Trick.' Two students stand in the science classroom. On a workbench between them is a bottle with a thin neck. A boiled, peeled egg is poised on top of the lip.
STUDENT 1:

Brian, I challenge you to get that egg through the mouth of that beaker.

BRIAN:

Sure, that should be easy.
Brian smashes a flat hand down upon the egg. It squishes and crumbles on the lip of the flagon.
MICHAEL FERGUSON: If you try it like this, you won't have much luck.
Text on screen - 'How does it work?'
STUDENT 1:

Alright, here's how it really works. Take a small piece of paper, light it on fire. Make sure the piece of paper is burning pretty well. Drop the piece of paper into the bottle. Wait a second, put the egg on top and make sure you have a tight seal.
With the burning paper inside, the egg pops through the thin neck into the bottle.
MICHAEL FERGUSON:

Is it a trick bottle, a trick egg or something else? This trick can be explained with a basic understanding of the behaviour of gases. Gases are made of molecules that are relatively far apart. Unlike solids and liquids, gases do not have a defined volume, so they expand to fill any container. If the temperature of a gas in a container is raised, the molecules will move faster. The hotter, faster-moving molecules hit the walls of the container with more force, so the pressure increases. This is a phenomenon called the Gay-Lussac law. Alright, what happened here is that the paper burning inside with an airtight seal created by the egg used up all the oxygen in the jar. The air outside was then at a higher pressure than the air inside, and the result is that in order to balance the two out, the air outside pushed the egg in so that there's no longer an airtight seal here and the two different pressure zones are now balanced.
End titles roll for 'Chem Matters, Episode 3 - Demystifying Magic Tricks'.
NARRATOR:

Should we be disappointed that none of these tricks are actually magic? Not in the least. After all, much of what we know and understand today is a result of observing something unexpected and seeking an explanation. The fact that each of the effects in these tricks was due to basic chemistry should inspire us to solve other unexpected effects that seem magical.
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Links to resources to explore fundamental questions about light and matter and the application of the physics of light and matter to the past, the future and to space. Includes a quick quiz, links to additional DEC NSW physics resources and to the International Science School at the University of Sydney.

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The simulations and data vizualizations in this library are used as part of the OpenSciEd units. These can be used to visualise and provide visual/kinaesthetic examples for content taught. Students investigate and measure the conditions of planet Earth. They explore temperature, gravity and the needs of living things. Students also discuss how some conditions on Earth are constant, while other conditions regularly change, and how living things have adaptations to survive these changes.

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Middle School Science Simulations - 3D Science Lessons

The simulations and data vizualizations in this library are used as part of the OpenSciEd units. For information about how to utilize each simulation with students, visit the teacher edition for the associated unit. The Scope and Sequence page has information about the specific standards addressed in each of the grade levels and units.

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Browse our middle school science simulations and 3D science lessons today! From collisions to digestive systems, we have fun 3D simulations for many science topics!

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Queensland Museum is custodian of the state’s natural and cultural heritage, caring for more than a million items and specimens in collections that tell the changing story of Queensland. This website shows all their museums and how to contact if you wish to visit.

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Queensland Museum Network is continuing its reconciliation journey by developing an Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community.

We pay respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, and Elders past and present.

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Science Under the Microscope is a student-focused mobile web application that tests students knowledge of the NSW Science curriculum. It reuses videos and other components of 2010 Murder under the Microscope (Shockwave on the Shoreline) to provide a series of clues that unfold as the student answers science questions correctly. After receiving all the clues the student can then enter the victim, villain and crime site to see if they have correctly figured out the mystery.

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(ACSSU043) Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment

(ACSHE081) Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena

(ACSHE217) Scientific knowledge is used to inform personal and community decisions

(ACSIS218) Compare data with predictions and use as evidence in developing explanations

(ACSSU094) The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment

(ACSHE098) Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena

(ACSHE220) Scientific knowledge is used to inform personal and community decisions

(ACSIS221) Compare data with predictions and use as evidence in developing explanations

(ACSSU112) Interactions between organisms can be described in terms of food chains and food webs; human activity can affect these interactions

(ACSSU222) Water is an important resource that cycles through the environment

(ACSHE120) Science and technology contribute to finding solutions to a range of contemporary issues; these solutions may impact on other areas of society and involve ethical considerations

(ACSHE121) Science understanding influences the development of practices in areas of human activity such as industry, agriculture and marine and terrestrial resource management

(ACSIS129) Construct and use a range of representations, including graphs, keys and models to represent and analyse patterns or relationships, including using digital technologies as appropriate

(ACSIS132) Use scientific knowledge and findings from investigations to evaluate claims

(ACSHE226) Science knowledge can develop through collaboration and connecting ideas across the disciplines of science

(ACSHE135) Science and technology contribute to finding solutions to a range of contemporary issues; these solutions may impact on other areas of society and involve ethical considerations

(ACSHE136) Science understanding influences the development of practices in areas of human activity such as industry, agriculture and marine and terrestrial resource management

(ACSIS234) Use scientific knowledge and findings from investigations to evaluate claims

(ACSSU176) Ecosystems consist of communities of interdependent organisms and abiotic components of the environment; matter and energy flow through these systems

(ACSHE160) People can use scientific knowledge to evaluate whether they should accept claims, explanations or predictions

(ACSIS169) Analyse patterns and trends in data, including describing relationships between variables and identifying inconsistencies

(ACSIS170) Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent with evidence

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Granted this could be used for a number of subject areas, Google Earth is a cloud-based geospatial analysis platform that enables users to visualize and analyze satellite images of our planet. Scientists and non-profits use Earth Engine for remote sensing research, predicting disease outbreaks, natural resource management, and more.

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Aw snap! Google Earth isn't supported on your browser. You may need to update your browser or use a different browser. Please see our system requirements for more information. Chrome is a great choice and you can download it here.

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Story Spheres is a neat tool for adding audio recordings to 360 imagery. Story Spheres lets you upload short audio recordings in which you describe to viewers what they're seeing, the history of what they're seeing, and the significance of what's in the scene they're seeing.

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Story Spheres 0.0.3 APK download for Android. Narrative, documentary and story-telling platform.

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OneNote is a digital note-taking app that provides a single place for keeping all of your notes, research, plans, and information. Everything needed to remember and manage in life at home, work, and school.

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Google Sites is a website-building platform. If you're familiar with other website platforms like WordPress or Wix, you can think of Google Sites as something that's somewhat similar, but perhaps more specialized for businesses and web-based teams. This is the website-building platform I am using for my Assessment Task 2.

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Access Google Drive with a Google account (for personal use) or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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Adobe Express helps make content in a way that’s simple, intuitive, and fast. These include making social posts and stories, ads, banners, logos, flyers and more in minutes.

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Adobe Express is an all-in-one design, photo, and video tool to make content creation easy. Quickly and easily make stunning social content, videos, logos, and more to stand out on social and beyond.

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Pinterest is a visual discovery engine for finding ideas like recipes, home and style inspiration, and more. With billions of Pins, you'll always find ideas to spark inspiration. When you discover Pins you love, save them to boards to keep your ideas organized and easy to find. You can also create Pins to share your ideas with other people on Pinterest.

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There is a wealth of information relating to science which include written articles, magazines and some interactive pieces about all topics to do with Science!

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Computer Science is fun. cs4fn's aim is to share our passion about all things to do with Computer Science and especially to show that it is an exciting subject that is great to learn about just for the fun of it. We produce a free magazine twice a year as well as a series of special booklets (for example we have produced three magic books on magic tricks and the computer science behind them). We have also produced magazines on Electronic Engineering and Audio Engineering and their links with computing. All are sent free to schools in the UK (over 20,000 copies per issue). We write lots more articles that go on the website. There are now well over 1000 articles on all kinds of fun topics. Online pdfs of our fun magazines and booklets have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times from people in over 80 countries. We are a partner to the BBC's Make it Digital campaign.

We hope you will enjoy exploring cs4fn as much as we enjoy writing it.

Support for Schools

cs4fn also has a sister website specifically to support teachers: Teaching London Computing. There we provide activity sheets and other resources to help teachers both teach the Computing curriculum and go beyond it. We also give free workshops on fun, unplugged ways to teach computing and computational thinking, as well as providing CPD courses for teachers. Originally the focus was on providing support in London (hence the name) but we now provide resources across the UK and internationally. Over 14,000 of our resources for teachers were downloaded in our first year.

UK schools can request free copies of the magazine can be requested via our teachers area.

Who are we?

cs4fn was created in 2005 by Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science of Queen Mary University of London. Since then we have been helped by many people locally, most notably Gabriella Kazai, Jonathan Black, Chrystie Myketiak, Jo Brodie and Nicola Plant.

To find out more about the project and the kind of thing we have been up to behind the scenes, see the cs4fn project page

Support

Many people, institutions and companies support cs4fn. In addition to Queen Mary University of London, we have received major financial support from EPSRC, The Department for Education, the Mayor of London and Google through their CS4HS programme. We are a Friend of Computing at School.

In addition to staff at Queen Mary University of London, members of many other Universities have supported cs4fn by writing occasional articles or contributing stories or images from their research. We have also worked closely with several major research and public engagement projects.

We are grateful to all who have supported our work. For more on the partners who have supported our work see our partners page

The look and feel and layout of the magazines is the work of Queen Mary University of London's central college publications and web department (who we think are brilliant).

Comments and Contributions

If you have any comments about the site, good or bad please let us know using the contact form (see the link from the sidebar on the left). We will strive to fix problems as fast as we can.

If you would like to submit your own articles or other material for the site, please also use our contact form to get in touch. We would love to hear from you. Details of rules about use of contributions, copyright etc for submissions can be found on our Copyright and Contributions page.

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Blogger is responsible for generating, researching and pitching innovative ideas for blogs. This is an excellent way to engage in the Modification and Redefinition Levels of the SAMR model when teaching in classrooms!

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Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.

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Publish your passions your way. Whether you'd like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.

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This could prove an interesting resource in Science when forming lessons. Please view my blog post "WEEK 4 ASSESSABLE REFLECTION 2 DIGITAL MEDIA" to see my ideas around incorporating Minecraft into the classroom.

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Minecraft Education - At it's core, Minecraft is an open world that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem solving.

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Similar to Kahoot, Blooket provides a new take on trivia and review games! I look forward to experimenting with this further!

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This is my blog for Assessment Task 1. Please feel free to check it out!

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This blog is made in conjunction with subject EDSE12024 Digital Pedagogies in Secondary School Contexts. Make sure to check out my posts and feel free to comment!

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This is just one of many videos avalaible. In this clip, they look into many different plane designs and can be linked to key concepts throughout a unit of work to justify designs of planes guided by physics. From there students can also identify if their justified design is used in the real world, perhaps by other organisms.

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YEARS: F-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8

How many different paper plane designs are there?

Lots! Watch as Dylan Parker, paper plane expert, demonstrates some of his favourites.

Notice the way the different shapes and features of the planes cause them to move through the air in different ways.

Which one do you like the most?

Why not have a go at making something similar?

Acknowledgements

With thanks to Dylan Parker, Paper Pilots.

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Different paper plane designs - ABC Education

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YEARS: F-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 Lots! Watch as Dylan Parker, paper plane expert, demonstrates some of his favourites. Notice the way the different shapes and features of the planes cause them to move through the air in different ways. Which one do you like the most?

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Kahoot allows for collaboration and discussion with a focus on quizzes. It allows online learning to be fun, exciting and in real time to help better student understanding.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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Scootle has an excellent collection of online resources that can be used by teachers in their classrooms for all curriculum subjects! Some of the resources in this Padlet may be adapted from Scootle!

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Scootle provides Australian teachers with access to quality-assured digital learning resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum.

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This resource and information from ACARA Australian Curriculum V9 were used to drive my General Capabilities for Science and creation of my Pedagogical Map. The focus mostly was on Version 9 - particularly the change from ICT General Capability to Digital Literacy General Capability.