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Brain Break
Test your powers of observation! (video)
How many animals can you count! (terrible website even with adblockers on 😭)
So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?
“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”
And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.
Saying "I'm not going to draw this thing because I don't know how to draw this thing" is really shooting yourself in the foot, because you've now cut yourself off from an opportunity to grow.
I had a friend in college who was an absolutely amazing artist. I loved seeing his work! One time I said something to the effect of "I could never do that."
He told me something that, as an artist, I resonate with. He said art isn't about natural talent; it's a learned skill. When you tell an artist their level of skill is impossible for you to reach, you're assuming their level of skill is a natural gifting they have, and it discredits the hundreds to thousands of hours of hard work they've put into getting where they are today, and you're cutting yourself off from trying to reach that point yourself.
I don't remember where I heard this but I wish I could, because it stuck with me:
Talent is THE RATE at which you learn things, not whether or not you can learn certain skills at all.
And that suddenly clicked for me. I have been very talented with a lot of things in my life and once I realized that I had basically been getting XP multipliers on my normal life experiences, it suddenly felt so much less awful to realize that I did not have the same advantage with other skills I struggle with, and that's okay. I might even have some debuffs on those, and that's okay. It's still all gaining as long as I keep working on it!!
It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.
There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!
I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.
He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”
“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”
Several us nodded.
He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.
“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”
“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”
“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”
“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”
“No, of course not.”
“Then why lift weights?”
“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.
“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”
And I’ve never forgotten that.
THIS.
When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one. Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.
Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to. But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.
History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from. It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely. Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.
Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction. But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.
The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it. (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)
Also, learning something hard and conquering it is good for your self esteem. There will be other times in life when you face difficult situations, and when you have a mind where you are comfortable solving things one step at a time, it will help you stay organized. It’s good for kids to learn early on that they can do hard things and can focus. Neural pathways don’t just create themselves.
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Yr5 Maths Page (jump to medium shot) Yr5 NAPLAN 1, 2, 3
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Fractions & Decimals Resource Page Compare and order common unit fractions and locate and represent them on a number line Investigate strategies to solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominator Recognise that the place value system can be extended beyond hundredths Compare, order and represent decimals
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Percentages, Fractions, Decimals Chart Ordering Fractions, plus another one Ordering Decimals: 1, 2 and 3 decimal places. Comparing Fractions (feat. pies) Equivalent Fractions
stop using chatgpt!!!! take a bronze pin and carve your questions onto an ox scapula, then toss it into the fire!!!! use the cracks to divine the gods answer!!!!
citations still have to be APA 7th edition though. if you plagiarise, the gods will flood the yellow river again. and you'll lose your academic standing.
(The Gods, personal communication, July 18, 2024)
so many of the "i only use chat gpt for ___" excuses are concerning because people use it in place of learning basic, valuable skills.
you don't need chat gpt to write professional sounding emails for you, there are many many guides on the internet and with a bit of practise you can learn to write them yourself. a very important skill for a professional to have, and some of the basic rules will carry over into irl conversations!
you don't need chat gpt to be a "more detailed search engine", because you're robbing yourself of the chance to learn how to find and filter information on the internet and evaluate the credibility of sources. which is a VITAL skill. plus, chat gpt is notorious for being wrong?
if you use it to write essays, you're taking away your ability to hone your research skills, your writing skills, your critical thinking skills. your ability to create persuasive arguments!
and for most of the other reasons people use chat gpt, there are non-ai websites for that! for maths, wolfram alpha. for figuring out what you can cook with the ingredients you have there's supercook and the like. for creating routines, there's about a million apps!
whatever you "only" use chatgpt for i promise there are better websites out there that you don't have to worry will produce complete bullshit???? and destroy the environment???
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Game Review Template and Another My Gaming Top 5s plus another one Design Your Own Game Console Word search! Cross word!
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Online Safety Rules Worksheet Sharing Information Online Worksheet Safer Internet Day Activity Booklet
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Your Own Video Game (Yr3-5) Game Design Resource Pack Create a Video Game Character Worksheet Design a Video Game Worksheet
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Page Borders (note paper) Unicorn Outline with Lines (note paper) Postcards Prompts All About Unicorns Leaflet Template Describe the Unicorn Fact File
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My Secret Unicorn (R&C) I Spy and Count to 20 (use as spelling too)
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Word Scramble - Can you beat the clock by unscrambling the letters to spell the word? WordHub - Find as many words with the letters before the time runs out.
NAPLAN
ACARA: 2012-2016 previous test papers
Twinkl: support materials
i think that, if youre usamerican and any time someone calls out your lack of knowledge on global geography you start talking about how bad the usa education is and how its actually not your fault that you dont know what continent nigeria is on because you cant look at the google maps bc donald trump will personally shoot you, youre very annoying
literally nobody is asking you to point them all on a blank map or know their capitals or count at least 3 major cities but there was someone in the notes who thought egypt was in eastern europe and someone who thought canada was on a separate continent from the usa. knowing sort-of where myanmar or bosnia or montenegro or somalia or laos are is literally the basic minimum and you cant even do that. if you think your knowledge of the georaphy is lacking instead of telling everyone on this site about how "they just didnt teach me that in school!" you can literally open the wikipedia list of countries and look at them. there are blank maps of continents online which you can use to practice. you can google "learn all the countries ever" and youll find a free flash game or some shit. "they didnt teach me that in school" jesus fucking christ
some fun games to build up your knowledge:
Seterra quizzes - lots of 'click where on the map [place] is' games
Worldle - guess a country by the shape of its outline, with the distance/direction if you get it wrong. You can also guess capital, neighbours, population, flag, currencies, major cities, and size
Globle - enter the name of a country and get a warmer-cooler colour for how close the target country is
Globle capitals - similar, but with capital cities
Flaggle - a flag divided into sixths, and each guess reveals another portion along with distance/direction as a hint
Wheretaken - guess which country a photo comes from, then guess the capital, capital's location, a landmark, the landmark's name, and which city another photo comes from (this one can be tricky: pictures come from wikimedia commons so sometimes it's like... a gutter)
Geoguessr - drops you somewhere in the world on google street view and you can navigate around trying to to guess what street in the world your drop point was
I started playing these daily a couple of years ago, and now I can point to almost any country on a map (South Pacific is still a little tricky). Along with trivia like flags and capitals, I've picked up a lot about different places' architecture, languages, and foliage. Often when you play these you'll become curious: why does a Spanish-speaking country have a French-sounding capital? Why is there a really long edge on that border? What does the bird on that flag represent? Where is that beautiful temple in the picture?
You might feel stupid at first, but it's really exciting to realise you're improving.
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When Link Sees Pots - botw sequel AU (GabaLeth)
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Tools: Scratch*
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Scratch Tutorials Other People's Tutorials
Creative Writing
Original Convert prose, movie, something you've read into a comic or story
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On anything! EG: turn science facts into an animated presentation. You can make it interactive.
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Spooky Writing
Halloween English Activity Booklet: 1, 2. Describe the Haunted House Halloween Discussion Cards Halloween Writing Prompts (Yr3-5): 1, 2. Halloween Writing Prompts (K-Yr2): 1, 2, 3, Halloween Picture Prompt and Writing Template Word Mats: Setting, Character, Adjectives, Words w/ Pictures. A Spooky Halloween Laugh Libs (Yr3-5) Haunted House for Sale Descriptive/Persuasive Writing (Yr3-5) Halloween Persuasive Writing Template Spooky Story Opener with Descriptive Adjectives (Yr1-2) Halloween Writing Task - The Witches Dilemma Halloween Blank Newspaper Card Writing Template Halloween Poetry: Acrostic, Sensory, Pumpkin Simile. Halloween Story Writing Ideas (Roll-A-Story) Scary Story Starter Prompt (dice)
Spooky Grammar/Spelling
Halloween Complete the Sentences with Adjectives (Yr3-5) Halloween Adjective Complete the Sentences Halloween Proofreading Pack Halloween Vocabulary Word Cards Magic, Witches and Wizards Alphabet Challenge Halloween Word Unscramble Halloween Sorting Words (verbs/nouns/adjectives)
Spooky Reading and Comprehension
The History of Halloween Reading and Comprehension: 1, 2. The Celtic Origins of Halloween Reading and Comprehension The History of Halloween Cloze Activity Halloween Cloze Worksheet A Magical Muddle: The Wonderful World of Witches R/C Halloween Monsters R/C
Spooky Month Miscellaneous
Word Search: 1, 2, 3, 4. Spooky Synonyms and Eerie Antonyms Escape Room (Yr3-5) Halloween English Escape the Room (secondary?) Halloween Rhyming Words Halloween Crossword: 1. Halloween Games Activity Pack Yr1, Yr2, Yr3, Yr4, Yr5, Yr6 Halloween English Activity Pack Halloween Writing Paper: Pumpkin, Bats, Witch, Misc,
Creative Writing Masterpost: Characters
Design
Build a Fairytale Character (or Shrekify it) Design a Character Writing Frames Describe the Monster
Personality, background story, family, etc..