Help for Teachers

The lesson plans have solutions to questions found on the student worksheets. Treat them as references and as a starting point for further discussion. You may want to prevent students from accessing the solutions to questions given on the teacher lesson plan. To do this you could print off the student worksheet and photocopy one for each student, or provide them with the specific URL (web site address) of the worksheet (which includes a direct link to the related content page but not to the lesson plan) and have them work from the computer screen.

Some student worksheets have information that provides students with the solutions to questions. You may want to remove that section before you make multiple copies for student use (you could cover it during photocopying).

The year levels are associated with the years of schooling as follows:

• Year levels 1 to 6 relate to six years of primary school.
• Year levels 7 to 12 relate to six years of secondary school.

Both the National Profiles and the Victorian Curriculum Standard Frameworks II were used as references when choosing learning outcomes to be addressed in the units of work found in these web pages.

With some computers you may encounter the following printing problems:

• The line of text at the very bottom of each page is half printed. Try changing the margin settings in the your print dialogue box.
• Not all of the page is used when you print off the lesson plans or student worksheet i.e. the text is spread across a number of sheets. This seems specific to some Macintosh computers (you may need to cut and paste text onto a new A4 sheet to create a master sheet for photocopying purposes).

Some of the animations found on these web pages are made up of a series of files shown to you one at a time. You may have to wait 20 - 30 seconds for all the files to download before the animation will run properly.

Some of the animations are controlled by javascript (specifically those that come with a control panel). If the animations don't work, it could be due to the 'enable javascript' option being turned off in your browser or your browser may not be able to use javascript. The following browsers should be able to use javascript - Netscape version 3 and greater and Internet Explorer version 3 and greater. Earlier browsers may or may not cope with javascript.

Font sizes

Most browsers have an option that allows you to change the size of the fonts used on the web page you're viewing. The method of changing the font size differs slightly with each browser. You will need to explore the options your browser provides. With some versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer you'll find the option under the VIEW menu item. Other versions provide small icons in the menu bar with the letter 'A', which represents fonts.