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This site has been developed to support exploration of the measurement of things big and small, ordinary and different, interesting and maybe even a little bizarre.

Most of the work is designed to be developed by groups combining their ideas, findings, thoughts and wonderings. For each section (wikipage) of challenges on the site there is an equivalent page for some of these wonderings to be posted. Put your wonderings together and post them. Some pages have headings that correspond to the challenges - use them. When students put their work up please make sure they identify their school/class as a part of it.


 * The structure**
 * **Wikipage** || **Focus** ||
 * Who are we || A chance to introduce ourselves to the other 200+ children who will be working on the site. ||
 * How fast? How Far? || A major thread that looks at speed and distance. Starts by looking within the school and ends up with the solar system and light years. Student feedback on the How Fast? How Far? Wonderings wikipage. ||
 * Weights. || Second major thread. Mainly concerned with volume and capacity and associated weight. Student feedback on the Weights wonderings wikipage. ||
 * Just How Big Are We? || A sequence looking at increasing size, once again starting local. Teachers are enciouraged to do a parallel getting smaller sequence. ||
 * Ginormous and Tiny || A series of measurement ideas that could be done as a class, a group or individually according to interest. Has its wonderings page for student work. ||
 * Our Measurement Discoveries || A place for students and/or teachers to add measurement activities / ideas / questions of their own ||
 * Our photos || A chance for the kids to take and present their 'light photo' or their 'fast photo' or ..... ||
 * Our writing || Written work around a measurement topic. ||
 * Information page || Where you are reading this!!! ||

Only one user can edit an individual wikipage at any one time. As there will be others wanting to put their work in it is **VERY** important that you have your work ready and copied before you click Edit, then Paste and Save as quickly as possible. It is REALLY important that you click Save I hope this is not too much of a problem! If you work does not appear after a wee while (hour) then go Edit / Paste / Save. Some of you might try entering your work at different times during the day.
 * The Wiki Challenge**

This is an open page for any measurement discoveries, challenegs, Wows and wonderings not covered in the rest of the unit. Please encourage each other by posting things on interest on this page - go on I dare you.
 * Our measurement discoveries.**

Your class will have a username and password that must be used to enter information onto our wiki. Work with others to develop your solutions, questions and wonderings about different areas of the wiki. Put these ideas together in your word processor making sure it is all finished and checked before you go to the wiki. Make sure no-one else in your class is logged in. Sign in - make sure your class name is up the top. If it still says Guest sign in again. Find your work and select and copy the piece that you want to put online. Open the wikipage that you want to put the work into. ClickEdit. Click your cursor where you want your work to go. Paste (right click or Ctrl/Command - P) your work on. Check it is there. Click Save Sign out (this will let others in your class log in from their computers) In most cases this whole process will take less than one minute. Please try and keep font size down to 12 or 14 point (headings excepted)
 * Entering information on to the wikipages.**

As you can imagine there are likely to be quite a few images on our wikispace. Because of this we need to be very careful with the size of them. I would like to ensure that images are kept around the 100 Kb range (most digital photos taken on cameras are 10 times that!) To make sure that our image files are kept small you will have to use a resizing application. On the Mac a simple one is Rapid Resizer, a piece of freeware available from me - there certainly are others all the way up to Photoshop. One the PC there is an XP plug in [] or you might try [] I suggest you have you children develop their images - free draw or a digital photo of their art work, size them appropriately and then put them all in a shared folder so they can be located quickly.
 * Developing images for the wikispace.**

This file has the instructions for getting the image in. Download it and check it out before you start.

(Please check your sites with your teacher first) If you want to include websites in your wonderings either to show where you got information or to provide additional information then you will need to use this file. Download it and check it out.
 * Making links to the internet.**