Welcome to Wirlit K-3
Wirlit surfs the net and to find free interactive and print resources, topics and themes for early and lower primary teachers.
Provides teacher notes on planning a line of inquiry with students for each theme.
Resources are produced in matrixes allowing easy access to free websites with teacher explanation and ideas for use.
Reduces your time spent hunting for inquiry units, interactive digital resources and learning objects for a theme or topic
Makes planning easier
Great forGreat for:
- new and experienced teachers
- interactive white boards
- an inquiry approach to learning
- programming and planning units of work
- student inquiries and research
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I know how busy teachers are. I know because I am one and have spent countless hours researching themes and units of work for inquiry based learning for my classes.
There are a plethora of great free interactive sites and resources for teachers and students on the net. Trying to add these to programs for each theme and unit of work can become a bit of a nightmare as to which ones to use, you can end up with so many.
Resources for each theme in this site are organised so that they can be quickly accessed so at the press of a button they can be on an interactive whiteboard or computer screen. Go to the Themes & Resources for a quick look. Each of the themes include links to other sites useful for inquiry research. At the top of each theme and you will find teacher notes on how to carry out an inquiry.
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If you don’t have an interactive whiteboard a normal whiteboard and a data projector linked to a computer will do. Just let the kids use the keyboard instead of touching the screen; they will still learn the same ideas.
I also noticed that there are few sites that assist teachers with planning inquiry units of work, especially for new and student teachers, or anyone who has not used this approach before.
More experienced teachers may find they plan inquiry units in different ways. The approach I use is a modified version of the IB/PYPmodel and constructivist / brain based learning. See the inquiry page for more on this.
If you are interested in accessing more topics please go to news
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Comments from Members
"Hi Julie
I wanted to let you know I think you are a most talented lady. The thought and organisation that have gone into your inquiry units are the very best i have seen. Well done, it is absolutely awesome work." Tracy
"This is going to be fabulous!!" - Kathy
"Glad to recomend such a sensational thinker." - Trish
"Thanks so much! I look forward to using your website. I have heard great things about it from our literacy coordinator.Thanks so much. It is fantastic Well done on all of your high quality work" -Helen
"I love the inquiry driven planning - your information is really helpful - I am new to teaching and it just is great to have access to this level of planning. I am working in a remote indigenous community and this level of curriculum support is worth gold to me!! Thanks so much." - Danielle
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