ANZAC Day Ideas

ANZAC Day

ANZAC Day Project Ideas

Great Resource thanks Holy Family School Wanaka for sharing!

Click here to link to Google Doc

Steam Digital Anzac Choice Board 

Thanks to Joe Lanning at Campbells Bay School

HperLink Here

Living Through History

ANZAC Y6-8

Shared by Marlene Smith

Education & Visitor Experience Leader

National Army Museum Te Mata Toa

Click here to download the PDF

ANZAC Day resources 

from http://elearning.tki.org.nz

Nga Tapuwae Gallipoli app
Virtual tours of the Anzac battle locations, historical images, soldiers' stories and practical tips for visiting Gallipoli. Released by the First World War Centenary Programme (WW100).

• iOS
• Android

Anzac Day – Lest we forget
Information and resources to support your classroom learning programme from NZC Online.

What does ANZAC day mean to you?
Stories from New Zealanders sharing their experience of ANZAC collected on the Stuff website.

New Zealand History Online – Anzac Day
Resources, classroom ideas, and a media gallery.

Anzac Day resources
Collated resources to support teaching and learning about ANZAC day from NZ History online.

Returned Services' Association
Historical information and upcoming commemoration events. Messages of remembrance can be left on a virtual remembrance wall.

New Zealand On Screen
This Anzac Day collection brings together over forty titles covering Kiwis at war. Iconic documentaries and films tell stories of terrible cost, heroism, and kinship.

Christchurch City Libraries – Anzac Day
Information about Anzac Day and lists related books, resources, and websites on this children's page from the Christchurch City Libraries website.

First World War inquiry guides and resource packs
Resources to help students in years 1 to 13 gain insights into the First World War. The Ministry of Education, the National Library’s Services to Schools, and the WW100 Programme Office have worked together to develop these resources.

New Zealand WW100
The official New Zealand Government website about World War One commemorations covers local and international commemorative events, encourages the sharing of family stories, and looks in depth at the experiences of New Zealanders during the conflict.

First World War map 
Locate events mentioned in the First World War timeline on this map from New Zealand History Online.

School reading resources

• Parts 3 and 4 of the June 2014 School Journals  have a focus on the First World War and Part 2 has an article about First World War animal mascots.
• Junior Journal  number 48 features an article about a tortoise who is a veteran of the First World War.
• Ready to Read  has teacher support materials and an audio recording of the Ready to Read text Dawn Parade.

More New Zealand Websites:

NZ History https://nzhistory.govt.nz/

ANZAC Search

National Library of NZ

ANZAC Search

Auckland War Memorial Museum

ANZAC Search

Due to the cancellation of all public Anzac Day services, the Museum will not be able to host its annual programme of free events on Anzac Day.

To contribute to this important day we invite you to visit our Online Cenotaph to discover more about New Zealand’s history and involvement in WWI and WWII and lay a digital poppy in remembrance of a loved one. Online Cenotaph is our digital social space where enthusiasts, families, and researchers can share and contribute to the records of those who served for Aotearoa New Zealand.

In acknowledgment of this important day, the Museum will be lit up in red lights to mark Anzac Day, from dusk on Fri 24 April until dawn on Sun 26 April.

Create a digital diary of this historic time

Many of our students may have already started some type of diary. These templates could help inspire them with further ideas. If they have started it's not too late these creative templates can be added to in Google Slides. The advantage of using a digital diary is students can add photos, audio, and video.

My Lockdown Diary https://www.mylockdowndiary.com/

Find out about the author/creator Stephen McCarthy of Christchurch  About My Lockdown Diary

For Google teachers:
Click this link Google Slide Version to open. Next, go to the File menu and chose - make a copy.

COVID-19-Time-Capsule

Created by Natalie Long of LONG Creations
original webpage COVID-19 Time Capsule links to PDF choose metric version.

For Google teachers:
Click this link Google Slide Version to open. Next, go to the File menu and chose - make a copy.

Google Classroom and Google Meet integration UPDATE

Google recently integrated Meet with Classroom. So how does this help? This feature allows you to create a direct link to a Meet on the front page of your classroom. Students just need to go to one place and there is the link. Teachers can control when the link is visible and can reset the link so students can not re-enter the Meet unsupervised. To find out more watch the short video below:   

Learning From Home Online Resources

Curated by 

https://www.officemax.co.nz/useful-resources-for-learning-from-home

Includes; Science, Coding, History, Maths, English, Art, Physical Education, Mixed Subjects, Games and Educational Tools. 

Example: Science

Book Creator

Book Creator https://bookcreator.com/

A number of schools around the world have temporarily closed because of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and will need to rely on remote technology to continue learning.

Luckily, there are lots of edtech tools out there to help with that, and with Book Creator online you can bring creativity to your homes (not just your classrooms!).

So, we’re supporting you in numerous ways.

Free collaboration upgrade
Guidance for setting up home learning (teachers/parents)
Daily webinars
Remote learning ideas
Inspiration from homes around the world

Firstly, we’d like to offer everyone the ability to collaborate together on books in real-time. This is a premium feature that is usually only available with a paid subscription, but we’re offering 90 days free use of this tool, to help keep students and teachers connected.

Book Creator Ideas created with Book Creator click to explore:

Using Book Creator in the Elementary Classroom 
by Karen Lirenman

Using Book Creator to develop Thinking Routines

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

Ideas for Using Collaboration in Book Creator

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

50 ways to use Book Creator in your classroom

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

15 ways to use Book Creator for Reading Responses

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

LEARNZ- At home activities

http://www.learnz.org.nz/

At home activities from LEARNZ supporting science, nature and local issues. 

Kia ora, welcome to LEARNZ virtual field trips.

At this time, while schools are closed, we know ākonga and whānau are looking for new ways to learn. At LEARNZ, we have created activities (below) that let you explore science, nature and local issues in your own backyard. Older ākonga will be able to engage with these activities independently; younger ākonga may need some help. Select the arrow to the right of the At home activity panels to find more. Whānau, caregivers and teachers can share what ākonga did by posting to instagram and using each activity hashtag, and #learnztrips

LEARNZ offers over 200 engaging, free, online virtual experiences with direction and scaffolded support for teachers. If you want to know more, head over to the Support Section for ideas on utilising each part of a LEARNZ field trip with your class. Teachers, we are here to support you especially during this challenging time. Please contact us for help with using LEARNZ.

NZMaths Update

NZMaths latest release to support Home Learning: https://nzmaths.co.nz/learning-home-teachers

Learning at home: information for teachers

Looking for ways to support students learning at home?
It is not necessary, or reasonable, to expect families to turn their home into a classroom.
Many families may simply need suggestions for how they can engage with mathematics
using everyday experiences and resources found around their homes. Maths at our house
provides some suggestions for this.
Weekly plans

If you are looking for more structured ways to support your students' learning in maths, 

we have provided weekly plans largely using the family and whānau resources here on 

nzmaths. Each session in the weekly plans is written to take around 45 minutes to complete. 

Feel free to pick and choose from the activities in these plans to support the learning 

programmes for your students. Be mindful that your students will be engaging in different 

ways and for different amounts of time as they learn from home.

Our weekly plans use e-ako maths, an online tool developed by the Ministry of Education. 

e-ako modules are more like classroom lessons than games, and therefore children may 

require some guidance to get the most out of these. The modules vary in length, so we have 

suggested ways to split them so they can be completed over several days. Number Facts is 

a learning tool on e-ako maths that finds out the number facts children know and teaches 

them the ones they don’t.

An information page for parents about the weekly plans is available at:

www.nzmaths.co.nz/learning-home.
Getting started with e-ako maths
Instructions for setting up a class and adding your students
Instructions for families to create accounts

Common Sense Media - Wide Open School

https://wideopenschool.org/

A curation of educational websites to support distance learning form the editors of Common Sense Media and their partners. 

- Suitable for Year 0 to Year 13


Read More:

We hope that Wide Open School helps make learning from home an experience that inspires kids, supports teachers, relieves families, and restores community.

This site was built in a matter of days on a shared vision. We plan to keep building until things get back to normal. A group of more than 25 organizations came together and raised their hands to help, and many more are joining on a daily basis. Watch for new features and content partners frequently.

Wide Open School is a free collection of the best online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense. There is so much good happening, and we are here to gather great stuff and organize it so teachers and families can easily find it and plan each day. 

This crisis has reminded us of our deep appreciation for the work teachers do every day in their classrooms. At Wide Open School, we celebrate teachers—and parents—as they take on this new challenge. We'll discover and highlight teachers who are figuring out how to light up an online classroom and invite them to share their tips and wisdom to help blend home and school. Wide Open School can only fulfill its mission if all kids and families can access it. We know that millions of kids are without home broadband and/or computers, leaving them without access to critical learning and support services. We will persistently highlight the need to connect all kids, and we won't rest until we have played our part in closing the digital divide. As we do so, Wide Open School will offer many resources that can be completed offline and on smartphones, as well as bilingual and English-language learner resources.

A note on privacy

While we have tried to favor sites that don't require a login, some do require registration. The provided resources include links to external websites or applications that are governed by their own privacy policies or information collection practices, which may be substantially different from those of Common Sense. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and information collection practices of any external websites and apps before using them with children. Many organizations have stepped up and made their resources free for kids during this critical time.

We welcome your suggestions and contributions. We hope to provide great free learning experiences, resources, and social services for teachers, parents, and kids.

 —The team at Wide Open School