This new CD ROM, available from TAFE frontiers and through AESHARENET, is a numeracy Certificate of General Education for Adults resource.
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It is appropriate for learners at Certificate I (Introductory) and Certificate II levels. It contains facts and figures about personal water use, language activities using a written passage about water use in George and Mary's home, understanding your water bill including the graph of water use, facts and figures about water use in an average home including percentage calculations, water saving ideas (from the internet), Melbourne's water storages and water use in other countries.
The navigation is clear and simple with lots of white space. Descriptive instructions are included at the top of each page.
Learners can identify and judge the size of metric measurements used in everyday situations, respond to the meaning of words and idioms in a passage of writing, read and identify the parts of a water bill, interpret the meaning of a bar graphs from a bill, read information from a pie graph, use 10% to calculate other percentages, find information about water saving from internet addresses, calculate percentage of the total using a calculator and compare figures with other countries.
There are many opportunities for different types of interactivity, both computer based with lots of checking of answers, and much encouragement for learners to talk with their teachers. The interactive computer exercises can be re-set for continued practice and revision.
The resource can be used in a variety of ways - in the classroom for individual study, pair-work and other extension activities, as well as home or flexible learning centre, after induction.
The target audience for this CD is those learners who have a Language Other Than English learners and very low level literacy. It is suitable for use with an older audience, including those with no or very little previous computer experience.
For more details about purchasing or licencing this resource contact :
TAFE Frontiers, Level 1, 620 Bourke St., Melbourne VIC 3000.
Or follow the link to AESHARENET
