A Pinch of Salt: Batteries for a teaching pack!

Website 1: Tools for puzzles, bingo worksheets
Recommendations: For creating worksheets

I felt this site particularly useful for teachers in using technology for lesson planning. A simple software is able to save the precious time of a teacher. This website provides free downloads such as school test template, bingo templates and many more..

As teachers-to-be, we are well aware of the usefulness of a simple bingo or puzzle sheet. First, it saves time as it has a build in generator where every bingo card is different. It saves the hassle of rearranging the words again and again to make it perfect piece of worksheet. It motivates students by making lessons effective and engaging. Yes, thats what we teachers want, don't we? Thirdly, it allows applications of knowledge gained with quick results to reflect on their understanding. Perhaps, the most important thing its free!

The effectiveness of a teacher is judged by her ability to manage her resources efficiently by tapping on what she has to make her lessons productive, engaging and enriching for every single student in the class.

Website 2: Learning Seed
Recommendations: Theory and Practical

I am pretty excited to share with you this blog, simply for the reason it excites me! Personally I felt this blog particularly useful and a great tool of resources for us teachers to be.

This is what you will see when you enter the web page. There are various categories that might interest you such as Food&Nutrition, personal communication, child development and etc.. Definitely we are looking for Food &Nutrition .. and as we click it..

Tada! There are many different topics that you can choose from.

Hang on! There are even videos provided too! It is useful as it caters to the visual learners in our class:) This would definitely exhibit another tool for practical demonstration.

Worksheets are also provided to give teachers ideas on creating questions.

Yes not forgetting that it contains textiles component too!
It is a highly recommended website for teachers to vist for creative ideas :)

Website 3: Brainpop
Recommendations: Concepts in theory

I enjoyed this website very much as a teenager. My teachers would use this website to educate us on certain important key concepts and diseases that were hard to explain. The power of visualisation! I love the robot too, its just amazing how captivating this website is!

This is how the webpage looks like when you enter..

Click on health, the orange label.

Now click on nutrition ..

And here you are! Presenting the different topics available.

It has videos available to illustrate the diseases. I am quite sure that it will excites your students like how it attracted me too!

Website4: Exploratorium

Recommendations: Experimental component of coursework

This website provides some ideas of experiments tagging along with its scientific explanations, history and some recipes related to the food product. It is quite limited in the products of food available. Yet, don't be dismayed! It is a good start of tool to build up resources and look for fresh ideas. The site is user-friendly and you might want to get students to do some reading before coming for lessons on food commodities!

Here is what you are greeted with when you enter the site :)

The site has interesting diagrams to explain theories that students find it so hard to understand. Thank God for the internet which makes information so easily available.

I am not sure about you but for me, I am pretty amazed about this site!

Under the topic on eggs, it has a portion on a journey to an egg farm. How cool is that! We don't have free excess to egg farms in Singapore and students miss out on such experience :( But well, this site provide us with all that we need to know with the know-how! And students are not short-changed too!

Website5: Love Potatoes

Recommendations: Theory (Food groups in health diet pyramid)

I have a secret. Do you know that I love potatoes alot! I don't know, perhaps is this asian genes that makes me go crazy about starches, about carbohydrates. I am totally head over heels about that. I love french fries, even though I am studying all about nutrition. :)

As such, when I chanced upon this site it caught my attention:) It has a link on "The Potatoes" that educates readers about the different types of potatoes available in the world! It is packed with recipes, nutrition and fun facts of potatoes. Just that! All that for potatoes lover which many of our kids are loving french fries and fast food. But fret not! It is an educational website that educates the healthy way of cooking potatoes interestingly!