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Foundation to Year 2 Band Description

Foundation to Year 2 Achievement Standards

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Recognise and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose (ACTDIK001)

Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams (ACTDIK002)

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Collect, explore and sort data, and use digital systems to present the data creatively (ACTDIP003)

Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems (ACTDIP004)

Explore how people safely use common information systems to meet information, communication and recreation needs (ACTDIP005)

Create and organise ideas and information using information systems independently and with others, and share these with known people in safe online environments (ACTDIP006)

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Foundation to Year 2: Work Sample Portfolios

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Foundation to Year 2: Work Sample Portfolios

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This activity explores patterns within patterns. As students participate in the activity they are encouraged to think critically and creatively about data, using skip counting and number sequences to describe patterns.

Students can use an app (Shadow Puppet EDU) to record their thinking about the patterns they see in the numbers.

Curriculum links:

Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams (ACTDIK002)

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Finding Patterns in Patterns - FUSE - Department of Education & Training

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"Jellybean Maths" is a learning activity, where students collect and explore data through play. Within the activity, students calculate and tally the different combination of jellybean colours within their lolly bag and record their data in a table. As this activity was originally designed for the implementation of the Mathematics Curriculum, it explores mathematical concepts, such as number sense and predicting, however, through further adaptation, it would also effectively align with the Technologies Curriculum, building on students' Digital Technologies, Processes and Production skills.

Within Foundation to Year 2, students are required to “collect, explore and sort data, and use digital systems to present the data creatively”. As the activity, “Jellybean Maths”, already caters to the first part of the content descriptor, “collecting, exploring and sorting data”, an additional activity would need to be integrated to allow students the opportunity to present their data using digital systems. One way in which this could be achieved is through an activity that requires students to utilise digital technologies to record their data in a simple column graph or picture graph. "Graphing for kids" is one app that would be particularly effective for this task. This graphing app is an easy learning tool used to support students, as they use digital systems to present their data in a graph, thus, meeting the requirements of the Australian Curriculum: Technologies.

Curriculum links:

Collect, explore and sort data, and use digital systems to present the data creatively (ACTDIP003)

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Jelly Bean Math | Activity | Education.com

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This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

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Communicating and sharing resources online

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Communicating and sharing resources online

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This website lists the most suitable, child friendly websites that can be used for students as they participate in safe, online environments.
Including:
Edublogs
Weebly for Education
Kidblog

Curriculum links:

Create and organise ideas and information using information systems independently and with others, and share these with known people in safe online environments (ACTDIP006)

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Why Blogging?

The benefits of blogging with students are quite numerous. It is a great platform for teaching online ethics, internet safety, and the responsible role of a digital citizen. Blogging is also a good tool for reinforcing digital copyright laws, practicing writing for an audience, and getting in some extra typing practice. Many teachers also like it as a way to collaborate with other classes and often use it for extra motivation with writing tasks. So, there really are lots of worthwhile reasons to start blogging with your students, and the following blogs for students are great places to get started.

Edublogs

Edublogs is a popular blogging tool for students With over a million blogs created since 2005, Edublogs may well be the natural place to start your search for a educational blogging platform. Its foundations are clearly based on a Wordpress base, but it has been tweaked to offer features that educators really want like calendars, discussions tools, video embedding and more. Edublogs give you a choice of over 100 themes to customize blogs, and it has an almost unparalleled level of support on its help pages. Not all features are free, some are only available on the Pro or Campus packages, but Edublogs is definitely still worth looking into if you are serious about starting student blogs.

Weebly for Education

Weebly offers blogs and other website creation features Weebly lets you create 40 student accounts for free with no student emails required. Blogs can be made public or private and the teacher has full access to them all on their own dashboard. Everything is very easy to create with a simple drag and drop interface, and there are no ads to spoil or distract from a finished blog. There are over 70 blog and website templates to choose from and the ability to upload or embed pictures, videos, maps and more makes Weebly one of the best blogging tools for students.

Kidblog offers numerous features for student blogging Kidblog is relatively new to the student blogosphere arena, but its popularity knows no bounds right now. Based on a simplified Wordpress interface, Kidblog is about as user-friendly as you are likely to find. Blogs are private by default so that they can only be read by the teacher and other class mates. This makes it a great first-time tool for experimenting with the power of blogging without the need or worry about being public on the web. Teachers have full administrative controls over all blogs that are created by students, and passwords can be issued so that parents or other family members can view individual student blogs.

Other Resources

Of course, this is not an exhaustive list of all the possible options that a teacher has available to them. There are plenty of other blogging tools for students that include popular sites like Blogger, Posterous and Tumblr. However, while these are all good options, they lack some of the controls and moderation that the solutions above offer, so they are perhaps best reserved for older students.

References

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Blogs For Students - The Three Best Blogging Tools Available

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The benefits of blogging with students are quite numerous. It is a great platform for teaching online ethics, internet safety, and the responsible role of a digital citizen. Blogging is also a good tool for reinforcing digital copyright laws, practicing writing for an audience, and getting in some extra typing practice.