Websites

Some of the information on the site may be hard to read. Remember to use your //Reading Detective// worksheet to help you. Use the links on the left side of the page
====to find your way around this site. There is a video with interesting facts and a game where you can test your knowledge. Be sure to take notes during the video. This site has a lot of ads that might tell you====

Aboriginal Playthings
====This website has some artefacts that were made by Aboriginal people in the past. Click on the links to look at the images of Aboriginal Toys. This is a great site for readers of all levels.==== Look at each of the pictures and read the description of each toy. Think about how children would have played with them. Do they look like any of the toys you might play with at home? Draw some simple pictures of the toys on your Toy Fact File sheet. ====Children In Victorian Britain Look at the pictures of toys on this website. Pictures can give us lots of information. Can you tell if these toys were owned by rich or poor children? What clues can help us work this out? **Hint:** Look at the clothes the children are wearing, what their hair looks like, where the photo has been taken. Does the toy look like something a child could make themselves? Does the toy look like it has been bought from a shop? What do you think this means? Use your worksheet to make notes.====

Toys From Past and Present
====Go to this website and find the link for Describing Toys. You need to choose adjectives (describing words) that match each toy. The adjectives are written for you in the easy activity, and when you hold your mouse over the word, it will say it out loud for you. Those students who would like a challenge should try the harder activities, where you have to write your own adjectives. Look at your Toy Fact File to help you decide on which words to use. Once you have finished describing the toys, you can play a fun game that will test what you have learned.==== Victorian Toys Searching Activity

There are 3 parts to this website. It is important that you start at the beginning.
__Part 1__: A look at toys from the past 100 years This is where you will find information about what types of materials toys used to be made from and how they have changed. It is important that you take some notes on your Toy Fact File worksheet. __Part 2__: The Toy Shop Of Time Once you have looked through the information, use what you have learned to visit the toy shop and put the toys where they belong. Use your notes to remind you about what materials were used for the different toys __Part 3__: Check your understandingThis part of the website is like a test! Make sure you use the notes you have made on your Toy Fact File worksheet to help you answer the questions. You may have seen some of the answers on other websites too, so remember to think about what you already know. If you don't know the answer, go back to Part 1 and see if you can find it.