Introduction

Living things is a stage 4 Science topic. It is designed to be approximately four weeks work.

It uses the context of living things and the prescribed focus area of developing knowledge and understanding of the history of science.

There are also two lessons that have ICT skills embedded within them. Spreadsheets are dealt with in Growing (lesson 3) and databases are used in Using a database (lesson 19).

The topics for each week are :

To get started click on one of the buttons, such as this one, in the left hand column. Each one of these buttons opens a page that has a five lessons for the week. Click on one of these and then go through the lesson by clicking on the arrows on the bottom of the page. When you complete a lesson goto the next lesson. You can also navigate through the pages by going to the lesson download page and clicking on each individual webpage.

There are five lessons in each week. Each lesson is presented separately as a webpage (with four pages per lesson) and as a pdf document. This gives the teacher flexibility in deciding each student's program. The return exercises are in a locked word format (electronic worksheets) that are suitable for emailing. All three alternatives are available from the lesson download page. The syllabus mapping shows the relationship of the materials to the NSW Stage 4 syllabus. There is also a Teacher's guide to the material.

Technical requirements

A computer which meets the minimum technical requirements.

Macintosh

Windows

PowerPC or above

160 MB RAM +

OS 8.6 +

Preferred monitor resolution: 800 x 600

Colour depth: thousands of colours (16 bit)

Pentium II (266 MHz or above)

64 MB RAM +

Windows 98 SE/2000/ME/XP

Preferred monitor resolution: 800 x 600

Colour depth: True Color (16 bit)

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Credits

Webpage design	Jane West
Revisions 2004	Jane West
Revisions 1999	Rhonda Caddy
Writer	Julie Haeusler
Editor	Ric Morante
Flash animation	Thomas Brown, Jane West
Illustrators	Barbara Gurney, Thomas Brown
Desktop publisher	Alide Schimke
Audio engineer	Greg Parke
Voice performers	Rhonda Caddy, Julie Haeusler, Greg Parke, Amanda Credaro
Version date	2004

Produced by the Centre for Learning Innovation, 51 Wentworth Rd, Strathfield NSW 2135.
Telephone: 61 2 9715 8000; Fax: 61 2 9715 8111

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