State Library of Victoria's Gusto! A Culinary History of Victoria

The State Library of Victoria is currently presenting a free exhibition Gusto: a culinary history of Victoria!

The exhibition explores Victoria’s historic and contemporary culinary landscape, featuring gastronomic treasures from the Library’s collections – from the first Australian cookbook, published in 1864, to an actual World War I army biscuit. To support the exhibition, the State Library of Victoria has produced a Gusto! education resource for Years 3-6 of the Australian Curriculum (VELS Levels 3 & 4). 

If you want to know more please visit the website:  http://slav.global2.vic.edu.au/2012/10/09/learning-with-gusto/

 

Instagrok

Welcome back to term 4 everybody. We hope that you had a very relaxing break. Tina has come across a fantastic educational search engine that she would like to share with you all -

Instagrok is an educational search engine which claims to:

• Empower differentiated learning
• Provide in-built tracking and assessment
• Develop 21st century research, curation and synthesis skills
• Finds age-appropriate educational content on any topic presented with interactive multimedia interfaces
• Generates quiz questions based on student's research activity and skill level
• Supports creation of research journals and concept maps for learning assessment

Instagrok is user friendly and easy to navigate. Moreover, the content appears to be topic specific, unlike the sometimes random results obtained through standard search engines.
The url for Instagrok is http://www.instagrok.com

-Tina-