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Drawing and labelling to complete ARB tasks

Submitted by jonathan on Tue, 04/21/2020 - 12:44

Students can draw and label diagrams and pictures to complete online ARB tasks
 
A way for students to answer online ARB questions using drawing or labelling has been developed. Students can now draw or label a picture or a diagram across a range of resources, and their results can be viewed from teacher accounts.
 
Drawing and labelling resources can be completed online across a range of devices: iPads, Macs, laptops and Android devices. 
These new question types cannot be auto-marked by the website, but they can be viewed in the teacher account results section.
These resources can also be downloaded and completed with pencil and paper. 
 
Mathematics resources

Getting the most from online ARBs

Submitted by jonathan on Tue, 04/14/2020 - 14:29

Getting the most from online ARBs
 
With a very recent emphasis on online learning, and learning at home, the ARB team have identified some selections of formative assessment tasks for learning across Levels 1- 4 that we think might help at this time.
 
To see these curated selections check out Getting the most from the ARBs.
 
The ARBs are an online repository of almost three thousand formative assessment resources that provide teachers with formative assessment Maths, English, and Science tasks for students at Levels 1-5. 

Recycling week 21-27th October 2019

Submitted by jonathan on Fri, 10/18/2019 - 12:14

Kia ora koutou
Recycling week is upon us, from 21-27th October 2019.
This year it's about looking at habits and taking action.
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Choose from a range of activities for each day during the week and the weekend
 
As a part of recycling week you could try to use only online-interactive ARBs with your students.
 
We have a number of ARB resources that address the Science and English around recycling:

Conservation week 2019

Submitted by jonathan on Sat, 09/14/2019 - 11:51

Conservation week 2019: Te Wiki Tiaki Ao Tūroa
14th-22nd September
 
Involve your students in Conservation week 2019! 
 
The Department of Conservation website has a large range of resources, activities and events for Conservation week - over 180 across Aotearoa! https://www.doc.govt.nz/news/events/conservation-week/
 
ARB conservation resources mostly involve the Living World context and include the science capabilities: Gather and interpret data and Engage with science.
 

Money Week and the ARBs - September 2019

Submitted by jonathan on Fri, 09/06/2019 - 14:42

Money Week 2019 is an annual awareness campaign run by the Commission for Financial Capability (CFFC). It involves resources, tools, activities, seminars, and events to build better financial capability for New Zealanders.
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This year Money Week runs from 9th-15th September 2019, and the focus is conversations about money. In 2018 the focus was planning for financial resilience.
 
Money Week website

Assessment Resource Banks News, Winter 2018

Submitted by jonathan on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 10:06

Talofa lava, Kia orana, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Talofa ni, Mālō e lelei, Ni sa bula.Welcome. 

Nau mai, Haere mai.

We have some handy new online-interactive assessment resources for your classroom that will help get you through winter.

It is great to see so many of you using the online-interactive assessment resources with the Student URL and the My folder feature. For those of you who haven’t tried, make sure that you share the Student URL with your students so you can see their results in the Completed resources tab.

This update includes:

ARB newsletter | April 2017

Submitted by jonathan on Mon, 04/10/2017 - 17:23

Talofa lava, Kia orana, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Talofa ni, Mālō e lelei, Ni sa bula.Welcome. 

Nau mai, Haere mai.

Welcome to 2017

 
It's great to offer you a selection of new assessment resources that explore:
  • punctuation and grammar, comprehension and inference in English, with some resources being suitable for ESOL learners;
  • observations, explanations, classification, and exploring patterns in science; and
  • interpreting graphs, properties of shapes, patterns, position and orientation, and a number of the additive and multiplicative operations in maths.

New resources

Recycling Week: 7-13 November 2016

Submitted by jonathan on Tue, 11/08/2016 - 11:57

Kia ora
 
Recycling Week aims to raise awareness about recycling and help people improve their recycling habits. Now in its 5th year, an increasing number of businesses and schools are  proactively taking part in Recycling Week. Check out: Recycling week.
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On the ARB website there are a number of assessment resources that you might like to use during Recycling week.
Here is a selection.
 
Science (Level 3)

ARB newsletter - August 2016

Submitted by jonathan on Wed, 08/10/2016 - 08:42

Talofa lava, Kia orana, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Talofa ni, Mālō e lelei, Ni sa bula.
Welcome.  Nau mai, Haere mai.

Welcome to our mid-year, 2016 newsletter.
 
Here are the topics we’re highlighting in this newsletter:
  • Our resource developers have been busy and have recently added 36 new online-interactive assessment resources to the banks.
  • A selection of ARB resources that explore Poetry (for the upcoming National Poetry Day).
  • Assessment resources for Conservation week 10th-18th September.

ARB newsletter - Welcome to February 2016

Submitted by jonathan on Wed, 02/03/2016 - 16:09

Talofa lava, Kia orana, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Talofa ni, Mālō e lelei, Ni sa bula.
Welcome.  Nau mai, Haere mai.

Welcome to term one 2016
Kia ora everybody!
A very warm welcome back to the new school year.  We hope you had a good break and are ready for 2016.
Here are the topics we’re highlighting in this newsletter:
  • Our resource developers have been busy and have recently added 27 new online-interactive assessment resources to the banks.
  • Seaweek begins on 27 February with the theme: Toiora te Moana – Toiora te Tangata – Healthy Seas, Healthy People.  Check out the links to related ARB resources below.

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