Internet

Ideas featuring web based resources. Send your stories to n.crawford@auckland.ac.nz

**On-line quiz in Biology** Rachel Harrison is a teacher at Whangarei Boys’ High School teaching Science and Biology. In her classes she uses various website and internet pages for activities. An example of this is in Year 13 Biology, using the website [|Cave Man Challenge]. The class is organised into groups and one group at a time they complete the quiz using the laptop and data projector. The other groups are removed from the room to do other activities. They are tested at the beginning of the unit of work to see what they already know, then again at the end to see what they have learned. This task can also be completed individually in a computer suite.

**Interactive web sites as whole class activity** Grainne Hackett teaches Science and Biology at Whangarei Boys’ High School. She sees huge potential in using web based resources to enhance curriculum delivery. Her challenge is computer access for her students when computer suites are heavily booked and the activity she wants may only last 10 minutes making a whole lesson booking seem unreasonable. Grainne’s solution is to use her laptop and a data projector. Interactive web sites are used with the whole class, often making them more useful than as individual activities.