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 * This term (term 3) we are doing a number of things.**

1. We have our school production of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. 2. We have our school camp to Queenscliff. 3. We are following Linda Beilharz as she crosses the icecap in Chile. 4. We are organising the Kids Congress to be held in Bendigo in September. 5. We will be celebrating the anniversary of 'Man on the Moon'. 6. We will be continuing to take part in the 1-1 Netbook Trial

To help us manage our learning whilst we have students getting ready for the production we have started a unit of work called 'GREAT EXPLORATIONS". This unit is inquiry based and it allows us to manage our own learning and work at our own pace. We can also work on it at home to catch up if we have had to give time to production rehearsals.

GREAT EXPLORATIONS

We get to choose our adventure! We can choose an explorer (present such as Linda Beilharz or past such as Burke and Wills) or an adventure that we would like to go on (journey to the pyramids of Egypt, climb Mount Everest or go to the moon!)

The idea is that we choose something that we are interested in, research it and use the programs on our netbooks to present what we have discovered. We will use these to teach others about what we have learnt.

This is an outline of the project in powerpoint.

Use this to assess your game when you have finished.

This is a game that was made by Jorja about her exploration of Egypt. She used encarta for her information.