Portal:Secondary Education: Wikis

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The Secondary Education Portal

A science olympiad in the Southern United States.

Schoolchildren using the XO laptop on a field trip in Thailand.

Welcome to Wikiversity's Secondary Education Portal, an entry-point for Wikiversity's secondary education content.

Wikiversity is the Wikimedia Foundation's project which specifically aims to collect and share open educational resources. Wikiversity aims to be a critical global player in the use of the internet and information technologies to improve global education. We provide equally for all ages and stages of education and view secondary education as a key component of our mission. Through the creation of this portal dedicated to secondary education, we hope to encourage growth of our resource collection in this area.

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Course:Basic Filmmaking for High School Drama Departments

Wikiversity Film School is developing a new way for drama departments to create short motion pictures at the same time they produce a school play. The idea is to create a 5-minute motion picture using the same set, lights, costumes and props as the current school play. After the school play begins its run, rehearsals on a short movie can begin with new actors. Once the play is over, the shooting of the movie can begin. Since the set and the lights and the costumes are all ready, filming can be done very quickly during the weeks that follows the closing of the play. More...

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Educational Picture of the Day

Refraction of light in water

This diagram shows how light is refracted to create the illusion of a pencil being bent by dipping in water. Click on the image for a full size version which you can freely re-use and modify. Print it and use it for your lessons, integrate it into your pages on Wikiversity, or use it in other learning resources and websites. Use the links below to find more images like this one.

Refraction images - Light images
Mechanics images - Electromagnetism images - Optics images - Atomic physics images
Images relating to physics in general

This image is a part of the Educational Media Awareness Campaign, raising awareness among educators about the availability and usage of millions of free internet media in education.

Guide to Secondary Education

The following is a dynamic listing of all the pages categorised into this portal. To restructure or extend this list, you will need to edit the category system itself. Where are the use instructions for this template?

High School Mathematics

High school physics

Teaching

Amateur radio

Arch

Brainstorm Forum:Vedic Maths and Algorithms

Fundamentals of Neuroscience

General relativity

Geometry

Grade School Science/Rocks and Minerals Quiz

Harvard chart method

History of Quebec and Canada/Study Guide

Introduction To Taxonomy

Introduction to Latin

Introduction to general relativity

Pomology teaching tools

Portal:Secondary Education

Primary mathematics/Proportions

Spanish 1

Spanish 2

Student Safety on the Internet

The Online Classroom

The Real and Complex Number System

Topic:Center for Primary and Secondary Streams

Topic:High school physics

Web quest

Wikihigh

Women and Technology What Do They DO?

Related material on Wikiversity

This box can be used to enter cross-references to related material on Wikiversity. You can also add more boxes for different purposes - contact a custodian if you need help with this.

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What can you do here?

If you are here as a learner, then browse through the menu of learning resources above.
If you are here as a teacher, then please feel welcome to create new content, or adapt/extend/modify existing content. This is a wiki, so just go ahead and be bold!
If you would like to be involved in maintaining this part of Wikiversity, then the to-do list has a list of current jobs, and you can add more jobs to the list.

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To-do list for Secondary Education

Locate more content on Wikiversity which relates to this portal and add it to the dynamic category system by categorising it under Category:Secondary Education
Reorganize the category system which this portal feeds off so that the guide looks better.
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