2010 anthology now available
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Special Forever is bigger andbetter than ever in 2010Every year 15-20,000 students participate in Special Forever: a Murray-Darling Basin water education project, learning about the unique environments that make up their local area and the Murray-Darling Basin as a whole. New project, new featuresIn 2010 the program offered participants a range of exciting new features including:
Learn, engage, communicateSpecial Forever is a great opportunity for students and teachers to learn about and engage with their environment, and communicate through written, visual or multimodal texts for publication on the project website, DVD or in the annual anthology. Teaching ResourcesThe program can assist teachers address essential learning standards across English, Studies of Society and Environment, Science, the Arts and ICT. A range of teacher resources are downloadable from the website including Teaching Units based on the project themes. Project partnersThe Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) in partnership with the Murray-Darling Basin Authority has managed the project since 1993. Special Forever continues to create much enthusiasm amongst schools, teachers, students and the community and provides a wealth of environmental teaching resource material.
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2010 book and DVD now publishedRivers We Share, the wonderful 2010 collection of 300 selected works of art and writing from students in the Murray-Darling Basin is now available. Copies have been mailed to published students, all MDB schools and others involved in the project. Award winners announcedFor the first time, in 2010 awards have been given to a number of schools in all the project categories. These recognise the great efforts of the teachers and students who participate in Special Forever each year. To view a full list of award winners, click here.
Animations included on this year's DVDA new element of the 2010 project was the animation of selected works. These animations can be viewed on the DVD enclosed with the book or at the DVD website. Order Rivers We ShareOrder copies of the 2010 Special Forever anthology Rivers We Share by using this form.
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