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 * Maths Trail **

This is a wiki to make a math's trail in the area of flight for Stage 3. As the activities have been developed to be Student Directed without much teacher intervention they can be unpacked to be able to suit each learner indiviually as to where they are up to Mathematically. It also ties in an Outcome in HSIE and many higher order Technology processes and tasks. Glen Smith, Mimosa PS

**__Why use a wiki?__** Well mostly because the students have a place to put their work for a real life audience to see every time they log on. After becoming members they make contributions to the wiki. They may be showing the work they did at school on the wiki at home to parents or they may be sharing and completing a project with a school in another country or a long distance away. A wikis main functions are EDIT and SAVE. A student can log on and complete a task either at school or at home. Every time they do anything to any page, the wiki makes a note of it and stores it in a log that the organiser can access. The organiser can see exactly what each student does and what they wrote, uploaded etc. In this way a teacher can access what work each student does. If a teacher doesn't want students to change certain pages then they lock it. Such as this page, so it can't be changed by members. Now more to what this task is about.......

I have also recently added a discussion page for the students to talk about their experiences and to gain help and support from each other. The discussion topics also allow students to share knowledge and information with each other as they go


 * Australian NSW K-6 Syllabus Outcomes **
 * Mathematics**

 Orders, reads and writes numbers of any size ||  || NS3.3  Selects and applies appropriate  strategies for multiplication and division ||  || DS3.1 Displays and interprets data in graphs with scales of many-to-one correspondence  ||  Selects and uses the appropriate unit  and device to measure lengths, distances  and perimeters ||  || MS3.5  Uses twenty-four hour time and am  and pm notation in real-life situations  and constructs timelines ||  || SGS3.3  Uses a variety of mapping skills || **Human Society and It's Environment Outcome** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">ENS3.5 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Demonstrates an understanding of the interconnectedness between Australia and global environments and how individuals and groups can act in an ecologically resposible manner.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">NS3.1
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">MS3.1
 * draws accurate sketch maps of a known area and includes title, key, scale and direction
 * locates places on a globe that they hear about or view in written, media and electronic texts
 * uses maps and globes to locate global and Australian reference points, eg hemispheres, political states, lines of latitude and longitude, mountains and oceans, physical and cultural regions


 * Technology Skills to be Integrated through this unit will include:**
 * Web 2.0 tools - Wikis
 * Uploading and embedding of images and videos
 * Podcasting
 * Interactive Whiteboard creation
 * Desktop recording
 * Movie Making
 * Internet browsing and research - bookmarking and linking
 * The use of Video Conferencing and the Connected Classroom program