| On line resources provide high quality resources | | | | aren't great for children at this point instead just |
| often at low or free cost. These are resources | | | | focus on making sure the right information is |
| that every small school and home school must | | | | available. Next print out the relevant pages of the |
| seriously consider. | | | | site and then arm yourself with a marker pen. |
| Unlike larger schools small schools and home | | | | The next stage is something I'm sure we've all |
| schools often don't have much of a free budget. | | | | done lots of times. Go through the material and |
| Instead the budget is mostly put into paying | | | | highlight the material you think will be useful. Now |
| teacher salaries and building costs. What little is | | | | you should have the material you need. Pulling this |
| left over goes into books and materials for pupils. | | | | material together should now be relatively |
| Using on line resources can help overcome this | | | | straightforward. Work out the order you want |
| cost difficulty. | | | | the highlighted text and then simply copy and |
| Often the Internet is viewed as a great place for | | | | paste it into WORD or a similar word processor. |
| free resources. However many teachers will tell | | | | You're nearly at the final stage. Highlight all the |
| you it's not that great for resources that you can | | | | text and format it into the same font and font |
| give directly to pupils. Often the material is poorly | | | | size and then read through it and turn it into a |
| written and sometimes is just plain inappropriate | | | | readable piece of prose. |
| for children. However despite the difficulties with | | | | The final step is to grab a few of the pictures |
| the material it is often the only choice. So how do | | | | form the various web sites (assuming you are |
| you tackle using the resources. | | | | allowed to by the license) and print them out. You |
| Perhaps the first thing to consider is just what it | | | | should now have a great article for teaching from. |
| is that you are looking for. It might sound an odd | | | | If this isn't for you then you could go to the next |
| thing to say but all too often people start to | | | | level up and buy a subscription to a site like |
| search with a very broad topic range and spend | | | | Learning Huddle or similar who specialise in |
| hours finding lots of material that isn't helpful. | | | | providing topic information for school children. |
| Instead you should try to focus the topic area at | | | | These site generally have done all the hard work |
| the start. Pick on something very specific. For | | | | for you including getting licenses etc. |
| example building Roman roads in the UK and then | | | | Whatever you decide the Internet can be a great |
| depending on the results widen or narrow the | | | | place but if you decide to use the "free" option |
| search. | | | | remember that you're going to have to put in |
| You should aim to find up to five sites that have | | | | some personal time to make it worthwhile. |
| relevant information. Don't worry if the sites | | | | |