The net-ferret website provides an exciting and stimulating way to learn and explore, using the Internet for National Curriculum based activities.
net-ferret Ventures
The Gambia
The Real St Lucia
Teacher Page
Teacher's Page - General
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
task
or is deliberately open ended allowing you to determine the problem
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
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
When?
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 here so we can modify the link.
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!