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The Office > Teacher's Page
The purpose of Net- Ferret web ventures
What?
- Free resources where all the research has been done for you
- Problem solving activities linked to the National Curriculum and/or QCA
- Incorporates more than one aspect of the National Curriculum and particularly develops naturally, a variety of ICT skills
- Help pages provided for specific ICT skills, such as copy and paste images from the Internet, create text boxes in Word, etc.
How?
- It sets an overall problem or outcome broken into smaller tasks
- The means of solving the tasks by providing links to specific pages within external web sites or pages within The Venture
- Pupils (or you!) do not need to spend fruitless hours searching for information but spend time engaging with it
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This releases you as the teacher to work with the pupils ensuring that they pass through the various stages of problem solving to reach the ultimate outcome
Help them to:
- Gather and organise the information
- Identify what is needed from it to complete the task
- Discuss and generate ideas for presenting
- Make decisions about it
- Implement those decisions
- Evaluate the decisions
- Communicate by presenting to the chosen audience
- Learn from the experience both in knowledge gained and ways of thinking and working
- It may form the major part of your work on a NC or QCA area
- It may compliment your class work and all children work in groups on sections
- You may use it to extend some groups who select just one or two of the areas
- It can be used to supplement any class work where you dip into it for ideas and resources.
- It may be a source for whole class teaching, particularly using the interactive whiteboard
- It may simply be a source of good web site addresses!
Webquests
These ventures have been developed on the style of WebQuests.
Do look at the many valuable resources available to you through the UK version of webquests. This page will take you to the National Curriculum subjects but explore the whole site and its links.
Keeping up to date and in touch
Very useful web sites suddenly disappear! That is beyond our control. If you discover broken links please contact us on info@net-ferret.com so it can be adapted.
Please do let us know if you have found this useful, can think of ways to improve it or have ideas and resources for others.
We really would like to know of any results of using this site and if you are happy to do so, will display examples for others to see. Please send examples, photographs of displays etc. Contact us first to discuss arrangements.
Many thanks
The Human Team!
