Click on the links below depending on the section you need:
| Resource Book | Communication Websites | Task Cards | Extension Ideas |
| Creative Thinking | School Competitions | Assessment Tools |
Resource Book Links:
The Development of Language ... Page 7
www.esperanto.net/veb/faq.html
Storytelling Through Time ... Page 8
www.dreamtime.net.au/dreaming/storylist.htm
www.maori.org.nz/tikanga/purakau/index.htm
Ancient Communication Forms ... Page 9
www.upennmuseum.com/hieroglyphsreal.cgi/
Edison: Profile of an Ingenious Inventor ... Page 18
The Telephone: A Triumph ... Page 19
www.howstuffworks.com/telephone.htm
Telephone Technology Over Time ... Page 20
Great Southern Inventions ... Page 24
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/blackbox.html
The Computer Age ... Page 25
www.computer.org/history/development/index.html
Newsflash: Flash News! ... Page 27
www.screensound.gov.au/screensound/screenso.nsf
Satellites - Off the Planet! ... Page 28
http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/topex/kids/
Universal Communication ... Page 29
contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/main.html
Useful Communication Websites - Page 30
www.edu.meisei-u.ac.jp/~paul/myths.html - Mäori Myths and Legends
www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/hieroglyphics/heiroglyphics.html - Ancient Egyptian Culture
home.iprimus.com.au/oseagram/morse.html - Australian Overland Telegraph Line
inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone.htm - The Path to the Telephone
sln.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/bell.html - Alexander Graham Bell and His Telephone
home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/firsttw.html - The first Typewriter
www.mytypewriter.com/ - Typewriter History
www.howstuffworks.com/ - How Stuff Works
www.att.com/history/inventing.html - Inventing the Telephone
public.web.cern.ch/public/ - CERN - The World’s Largest Physics Laboratory
www.computer.org/history/development/index.html - History of Computers
octopus.gma.org/surfing/satellites/ - How Satellites Work
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980202e.html - Artificial Satellites in Orbit
spaceinfo.jaxa.jp/db/kensaku_html/type19_e.html - Space Encyclopedia - Artificial Satellites
www.aba.gov.au/tv/faqs/history.htm - Television FAQs
Task Card Links:
Task 8: Alien Communication
www.seti.org - SETI Institute
Task 9: Time Travel Technology
Task 12: Radio Waves
www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/radio/radio.html#crystal
electronics.howstuffworks.com/radio1.htm
Task 13: Aesop's Fables for the 21st Century
www.umass.edu/aesop/contents.html
Task 16: E-mail - An Exciting Electronic Exchange
inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blinternet.htm
Task 18: Satellite Study
science.howstuffworks.com/satellite.htm
Extension Ideas:
Task 1: Communication All Around
Task 11: Design a Communication System
www.marconicalling.com/introsting.htm
Task 12: Radio Waves
www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/radio/radio.html#crystal
Task 14: Quotations Quotations
www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_technology.html
homepage.mac.com/juggle5/other/TechnologyQuotes.html
Task 17: A WWWonderful Website
Task 18: Satellite Study
www.bu.edu/satellite/classroom/model.html
Relevant Websites - Creative Thinking:
Thinking Skills - www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/thinking.htm
Creative, Lateral, Logical Thinking - library.trinity.wa.edu.au/teaching/thinking.htm
Creativity Tool Kit - www.directedcreativity.com/pages/ToolsImagine.html
Mind Mapping - www.mind-map.com/
Teaching Thinking - www.teachingthinking.net/
Creative Thinking Techniques - www.virtualsalt.com/crebook2.htm
Creative Quotations - www.creativequotations.com/
The Thinking Classroom - learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/thinking/intro.cfm
Edward de Bono’s Resources - www.edwdebono.aust.com/debono/home.htm
Competitions and Projects for Schools:
Adam Spencer/University of Sydney Eureka Schools Prize for Lateral Thinking - www.amonline.net.au/eureka/lateral_thinking/index.cfm
Odyssey of the Mind - www.odysseyofthemind.com/
Sustainable Living Project - http://www.sustainableliving.com.au/competition/
Write Around Australia - www.nestle.com.au/writearound/
Tournament of Minds - www.tom.edu.au/
Assessment Tools: Online Creativity Tests
Creativity Assessment Index
www.creativelearning.com/Assess/
Crayola.com - The Power of Creativity
www.crayola.com/parents/powercreativity/quizes/print_teachers.cfm
Smarter Kids.com
Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students
www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/academic_creativity.html
Six Thinking Hats
Creativity in Young Children - ERIC Digest
www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/Creativity_in_kids.html
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