Victoria Sykes's List: Websites

This site is useful for teachers as it provides information on the types of fruits and vegetables we eat. It also provides definitions and categorises the types of fruits and vegetables including: stone, citrus, root and leafy.

This site provides information on the benefits of fruit and vegetable intake and why it an important part of your daily diet. It also provides details on the diseases that humans can prevent by eating fruit and vegetables.

This site provides statistics on worldwide intake of fruits and vegetables. This helps students identify the countries that are in need of fruit and vegetable production. It also provides background knowledge of the causes of low human consumption and how they harm the human body.

This site focuses on information about increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and how it is becoming a global priority. It also provides information on how many servings per day each person should consume. This site will highly benefit teachers as it will help plan lessons and units relating to nutrition.

This is a valuable website for teachers and students as it provides information on ways of preserving foods. Students would benefit from this as it provides information on different methods and what materials are needed.

This site provides details on how to store food and where to store food depending on the product and what temperature it must be kept at to ensure complete freshness. Teachers can use this website in realation to lessons or a unit on healty eating.

This site provides detailed information on bottling fresh produce. It also provides different methods that can be used and what equipment is needed. Methods include: jams, jellies, chutneys, conserves and curds. The students can use this site when deciding on their preserving method for their design challenge.

This is a valuable resource as it includes statistics on the availability of water in a range of countries. It also provides images that teachers and students can use for design challenges, projects, presentations and research.

Teachers will find this site useful as it includes statistics, maps and facts about water supply in a variety of countries. Teachers and students will be able to analyse, compare and implement this data throughout lessons and units relating to water supplies.

This site lists the third world countries in order in terms of their gross national income. Teachers and students can use this information to provide evidence when identifying a third world country.

This site provides excellent information about First, Second, and Third World countries plus country profiles of all nations.This information can be used to help teachers plan lessons and units when teaching and comapring the attributes of countries.

This site is excellent for teachers as they can access many teaching resources relating to Third World Countries. Resources include: songs, games and information related to the history and weather patterns of a range of countries.

This site displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. However these statistics are not 100% accurate, but can be extremely useful for teachers for lessons and units that relate to population.

This is a wesite that is highly valuable for teachers. It includes design challenges which can be modified and used in the classroom.

This site is very useful for teachers when teaching health and well being.There is a variety of information that is avaliable and can be easily accessed.This information includes: recipes, food and nutrition, images and events.

Youtube is a great resource to use in the classroom for teachers and students as it is a way of viewing topics visually. Students can also upload their videos and teachers can use it for assessment.

Essential Learnings identify what should be taught and what is important for students to have opportunities to know, understand and be able to do.

This is a great website for teachers as it provides some ideas and guidelines on how to intergrate technlogy into the curriculum.

Teachers will benefit highly from this wesbite as it provides technology lesson templates, assessment ideas and many other resorces that will help to incorporate technology education in the classroom.

This is a competition that students can enter or teachers can use ideas and create a school or classroom competition from this site.