Education Websites

Australia Post

Australia Post

• Educational resource material suitable for lower primary and middle to upper primary students (including middle years).
• Curriculum-linked lesson ideas and activity sheets to engage students (including Smart Notebook files).
• Fantastic facts about Australia Post operations and its history.
• IWB interactives, including quizzes, and a 'Journey of a letter' video.

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Clean Energy Council

Clean Energy Education

• Curriculum-appropriate lesson ideas and student activity sheets (including SMART Notebook files).
• Meet Bernard Caleo, a really cool guy, and watch his renewable energy presentation video.
• Fantastic clean energy facts and colourful diagrams.
• See the great Clean Energy Week video and find out more about clean energy special education events.

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Dairy Australia

Discover Dairy

• Three great learning modules, 'Unbeatable Bones', 'Fuel for Life' and 'Farm to Plate'.
• A comprehensive range of teaching tools including lesson ideas, student activity sheets, interactives and nutrition information for lower primary and primary students.
• Games, IWB interactives and activities for students.
• A free resource kit for teachers to request.

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Attorney-General's Department (Australian Government)

Australian Emergency
Management Institute

Emergency Management for Schools

• Facts on natural disasters and their impact on the Australian environment
• Discover how to prepare for disasters
• Curriculum-based lesson plans, activities and units of work
• Webquests
• Dingo Creek interactive learning objects
• A new Disaster Mapper online resource

Note: The website contains some links to YouTube videos.

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Engineers Australia

EngQuest

• Eleven fun-filled maths and science projects to choose from.
• Project background information and easy-to-follow instructions.
• Cross-curricular lesson and activity ideas and student activity sheets for each project.
• 'Ask an engineer' forum to connect with engineers and a volunteers map to request an engineer to visit your school.
• A fun, engaging animated student entry and interactive games and quizzes.
• A photo gallery of EngQuest projects and a glossary to assist with terminology.

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National Folk Festival

Rhythms of the World

• Music-focused cross-curricular lesson ideas and activity sheets.
• Discover the history and origins of various violins/fiddles with an interactive world map.
• Multiple choice quiz to test your violin/fiddle knowledge.
• Amazing interactive 3D model of a violin which allows you to view it from different angles and break it down into parts to learn how it is constructed and the name of the individual parts.
• Interesting facts about the violin/fiddle written specifically for students.

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Origin Energy Australia

Energy Savers

• Cross-curricular lesson and activity ideas relating to energy, renewable energy and saving energy.
• Student activity sheet PDFs and SMART Notebook files.
• Energy saving and renewable energy technology information.
• A fun 'All about energy' interactive quiz and energy animations.
• A comprehensive energy-related glossary.
• All about Energy Savers Week.

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