'Fun+Sites'+for+Learning

Basic skills are essential for early childhood and primary learning. It is these basic skills that will allow students to succeed in higher order thinking throughout their schooling experience. As teachers we need to encourage students from a very early age to learn the basic skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic.

Check the Map is a fun and interactive website that could be used in the classroom to assist in teaching students with disabilities. It is a website that would be best suited for early childhood and primary school teaching practices.

The ‘[|Fun Sites’]section is the main resource that teachers can use in the classroom. This section of the site contains a number of interactive activities. These activities span across the main learning areas of mathematics, science, English, geography, history, religious education, art and design, design and technology and ICT. Each subject area contains basic learning guides and interactive activities for students to learn the basic skills.

These fun sites could be used as part of a teacher guided learning session or students could work through these programs on their own. The mathematical exercises begin at a very low level, with basic skills of counting, money and sums. For students in early childhood and primary school this is a great way for students to work at their own pace and to learn visually. The site also contains resources to keep students interested including educational games and spoken stories.