Sites (22)
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Amazing Behind-The-Scenes Tours
Tours of a range of production processes.
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Attack of The Fast Food Junkies
Follow the story of children rescued from the fast food junkies.
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Bega Cheese Virtual Tour
Tour the production process at Bega Cheese.
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BOS Resources
List of sites suitable for this unit.
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Chindogu
A collection of bizarre and brilliant gizmos and gadgets that have broken free from the chains of usefulness to enjoy the sublime liberation of the highly impractical.
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CyberSpace Farm
Learn about Kansas farms from the experts who live and work there.
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Dole 5 A Day
Information about all kinds of fruits and vegetables and their health benefits.
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Family Farms Around the World
These 150 farm homepages give you information about life on their farm, animals, crops, wildlife, marketing, problems, economics, soil, climate, and other information.
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How is It Made?
If you are interested in manufacturing processes, like forging, casting, or injection molding, then you've come to the right place.
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Kidbank
A fun place for children to learn about money and banking.
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Manufacturing Virtual Tours
Virtual tours of manufacturing technology and people in action.
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Milk Production
Virtual tour of milk production.
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Mr. Rogers' Factory Tours
Tours of production process for household items.
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Raw Materials Line Up
An item used to produce something else is called a "raw material." Some raw materials are easy to spot, but many require detective work.
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Recycle City
Learn about recycling and waste management by visiting a simulation of Dumptown and assist in solving their waste management problems. Includes lesson plans and guided teacher objectives.
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School Canteen Virtual Tour
To discover information about the School Canteen and its equipment, you can click on any of the hotspots on the image.
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Shopping Centre Virtual Tour
Homemakers SupaCenta Moore Park, using Quicktime technology, provides an interactive, 360 degree tour of the SupaCenta.
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Shopping: The Latest Sport
Site examines the different attitudes people have to shopping.
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Smart Mouth
Information on how to make good choices about the food you eat.
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The Pencil Pages
Tour about production of pencils and an introduction to renewable resources.
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Virtual Farm
Find out how wheat gets from the farm to you.
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Wheat Mania
Learn about planting, growing, harvesting and using wheat. Includes photos, activities, teacher resources, and Wacky Wheat's favorite links.
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Lessons (10)
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Buy Smart
Office of Fair Trading has developed a resource kit to assist teachers to incorporate the Buy Smart competition into their classroom activities.
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Curriculum Corporation: Money and Exchanging Goods
Collection of lessons on money as a means of exchange.
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EconedLink Lessons
Large collection of lessons on good and services, money, business and consumerism.
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Innovated: Trade Marks
This is the first in a series of four visual art lessons in which students will explore the use of trade marks.
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Money Instructor: Needs and Wants
An important money concept is understanding the difference between needs and wants. Here, students must decide if each item is a need or a want.
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Public Goods and Services
In this lesson the children listen to the book Community Helpers from A to Z. They list the helpers who provide goods or services to the public.
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The Basics: Needs and Wants
Secondary lesson that may be adapted for primary. Aims to assist students to understand the concept of scarcity and its relation to needs and wants.
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Webquest: Who Will Buy?
Activities based on this unit.
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What DoYou Want to Sell?
In this lesson, students explore how companies describe their products and services. They then write business plans for companies based on their interests or needs.
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Who Will Buy Web Research Task
A web based research task with links to products, advertising tricks.
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