Chris Stone
- Jun 13, 2017
- 1 min read

Hospital at work

I found a simple interactive that is useful when introducing in Year 5 the idea that many different resources are used to make a good or provide a service. It is on a US website and hence has some wording that differs slightly to the wording used in Australia but it can be easily understood.

It could be used as the ‘hook’ for a series of lessons about the three types of resources.

http://interactive.knowitall.org/interactive/kidswork/Hospital/hospital.html

The other two interactives in this collection are not as useful for this purpose.

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