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These resources are usable across multiple curriculum areas. They cover areas such as resource databases, commercial software suppliers, lesson plan databases, themed activities, worksheets, … . While we have included many, it is by no means all that is available.
This listing does not restrict inclusion of other resources on specific subject pages or pages such as Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries, Ask an Expert in the General Reference section.
This page looks at sites that have been developed in Australia, many with original resources.
The Second Page looks at sites and resources from countries other than Australia. Check carefully to be sure they conform to Australian requirements before use, e.g. spelling, Mathematical formatting, terminology, … .
Listed individual resources are suitable for teacher use with all education levels unless specifically indicated otherwise.
Australian Sites
- ABC Education - Learn Gateway
Australian Broadcasting Commission. Quality materials covering school and lifelong learning. By age and subject, find other resources, check educational television, radio, more. For all options, use this A-Z listing of television programs. - Aussie Kids Software
Australian software, educational software, children’s software for Mac and Windows computers, non-violent computer games, more. Check the extensive categories listed at the right hand side. Brands are listed on the left. - Aussie Schoolhouse
Portal with teacher and association sites. Variety among teacher sites from specific to general, lesson plans to learning technology. Several hundred pages. - Austhink : Rationale™
‘Tool for improving critical thinking skills. Provides the framework for students and teachers to visualise the thinking process and embark on the critical thinking path. For more detailed Educator information download the Educator Guide and Primary and Secondary level supplements’. Fee-based. - Australian Education Hub
Education news, search engines, information, resource reviews, online learning opportunities, more.
Teachers, Parents - Australian Screen
‘View clips from Australian feature films, documentaries, TV programs, shorts, home movies, newsreels, advertisements, other historical footage, sponsored films produced over the last 100 years, with curators’ notes and other information about each title. Currently 1 065 clips with teachers’ notes. All clips are marked and grouped in area listings, e.g. History, Identity & Culture, Indigenous Australia’. - Back to Basics
‘Maths [K-12] and English [K-6]. Over 180 short instructional video lessons. All lessons according to Australian Curriculum Guidelines. All teachers qualified and registered Australian teachers’. Note, there is a monthly charge for access, though this is quite reasonable. - Barinya
Family, Fun & Educational Activities. ‘An educational and information site for every family ! Barinya is an Australian Aboriginal word meaning Star. One of our main areas of focus is to help awaken a love of learning throughout life, by providing educational activities with a difference. Our educational activities are designed to stimulate a child’s natural curiosity and creativity’. - Brainstorm Educational Resources
Quality, affordable products in a range of areas from auditory processing to critical thinking skills. Worth visiting.
Teachers, Parents -
Curriculum Topics
‘These are curriculum topic lists of popular and frequently requested classroom resources. Lists include books, DVDs and kits’. From Library Services, Education Queensland. Done in Subject areas and with level codes. - Dear Grandpa Pencil
Information, activities, resources suitable for use with younger children. - Digilearn
‘Digital Learning Resources for the classroom. These include ‘The Learning Federation’ Learning Objects and Digital Resources’. Restricted access to Victorian teachers within their schools, and outside school with pin and edumail password. - Digital Learning [Screen Australia]
‘Search engine for teachers and educators. Free For Education downloadable video clips from Screen Australia’s remarkable archive - one of the nation’s largest and most historically significant collections. Clips matched with print-friendly, two-page resource sheets that include background information and engaging student research and classroom activities written by leading teachers. Awarded the Best Secondary Educational Website Award at the prestigious 2007 Australian Awards for Educational Excellence in Publishing’. One brilliant example is Dreamings, Through Indigenous Art.
Secondary
Brilliant ! - Education Research Solutions
‘Education Research Solutions is a proudly Australian owned company built by teachers, for teachers. As a result, we understand the pressures that Australian teachers face on a daily basis. Our goal is to Cut lesson planning time, Help teachers address accountability issues, Help schools to coordinate their curriculum, Provide support for early career teachers and Ease the transition to an Australian Curriculum’.
Well presented ! - Eduss Limited Australia
‘Currently has 6 retail products in addition to the Eduss Mathematics Integrated Multidimensional Teaching Assistant and the Eduss English Integrated Multidimensional Teaching Assistant. Designed for use in school and at home’. - Enhance
Television can be educational. Information on television programs relevant to student studies. Lesson notes, teacher’s notes, weekly planner. - Explore and Learn Teaching Resources and Tutoring
‘Explore and Learn Teaching Resources aim to help busy teachers and parents provide exciting and hands-on learning resources for their students and children at an affordable price. Our Explore and Learn Teaching Resources engage children through play with Numeracy and Literacy learning tasks that targets key knowledge and skills taught in the early years of schooling’. - Finn Cragg
Animated Teaching Resources. ‘Hundreds of Australian schools have invested in our Caravan and Emu multimedia resources following a lot of work and trials with schools, curriculum advisors and education researchers’. You may be interested. Nominated for award consideration. - FOR TEACHERS for students
‘All content on this “FOR TEACHERS for students” Australian Education Resources website is Free for use by primary and secondary teachers and their students’. - FUSE
Teacher Resources. Search using name, level, learning category; select student level; select by tags; select by listed categories. Annotated links, much material that can be downloaded. Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victoria. - Future School
‘Online learning system supports your entire family in both the classroom and the home using only qualified teachers to ensure its educational services are second to none. Our lessons are engaging, easy to use and cater for every age group [K-Y12]’. Mathematics, English Grammar.
- Games for Fun, Fitness & Learning
‘Resource book for parents, teachers, childcare workers, Cub Scout Leaders, Sunday School teachers, anyone else who supervises or entertains children. Games for children between the ages of 7 and 16’. - Get Smart Interactive Activities
Activities collated by Copacabana Pulic School, NSW. ‘Pages contain links to suitable activities to support and enhance classroom teaching and learning’.
Primary - Iconic Performances
‘Written and created by qualified and experienced primary and high school teachers and script-writers, the shows content supports the educational indicators and syllabus requirements for all schools and teachers in every state of Australia. The majority of our shows are developed and focused on Human Society and Its Environment Curriculums’. Obviously Fee-based. Has good testimonials on site. - IDEAS
‘Innovative and Dynamic Educational Activities for Schools is a set of Free downloadable resources for Australian classrooms. Each IDEAS resource features a curriculum context, a learning sequence and reproducible worksheet/s. A new IDEAS resource will be added to the website each term’. From ACSA. - Interactive Learning
‘Web Lessons for educational and non-commercial use only. Lessons are student self-directed [self-explanatory]. Answers can be found in the lesson content, or Internet web sites given’. - Jackie’s Resources for Learning and Teaching
Covers curriculum areas, Asian Studies among them. Done by a South Australian teacher.
Well presented ! - KIDCYBER
Information for research, units of work, lesson plans for teachers, student webquest assignments with all material provided, Ask a Researcher section where you can seek specific information.
Primary - Lesson Plans for Tired Teachers
Free and Fee-based resources based on the use of computers across the curriculum. Worth visiting to see what is available. - Macquarie Dictionary Online
‘The Macquarie Dictionary Online is updated annually, making it the most up-to-date Australian dictionary and thesaurus available. Subscribe now for fast and easy access to over 300 000 words and definitions’. You can also access Apps for mobile devices through this link. - My HousePoints
‘MyHousePoints.com is a complete self managed House Points system for your School. It can be customised to match the needs of your Schools Points scheme. Adding points is easy with a 4 Step system, Teachers can create Records on the fly or create them in advance’. Fee-based but a 30-day trial is available for Free. - National Digital Learning Resources Network
‘Contains more than 12 000 digital curriculum resources that are Free for use in all Australian schools. The resources are aligned to state and territory curriculums and are progressively being aligned to the Australian Curriculum as it develops’.
Previously listed as The Le@rning Federation. - OzEdWeb
‘OzEdweb focuses on providing quality free resources for educators’. Multiple sections including lessons, assesment, maps, Power Point, Technophile City and more. - oz-TeacherNet
‘Provide teachers with an infrastructure for using the Internet to support professional development and curriculum design’. Projects listed, separate communities, events calendar, more. - Photo Bank
‘This gallery provides groups with a growing library of photos that they can use in developing marketing materials. All photos are available free for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons license. Aboriginal people should be aware that this gallery may contain the names and pictures of deceased Aboriginal people and/or images of their art work’. - Precision Academics©
‘Over 400 Workbooks suitable for students with special learning needs. Designed to cater for the needs of children of all ages’. While Fee-based, costs are within the scope of schools and individual families. ‘Download some Free samples to try’. No restrictions on usage once purchased.
Teachers, Parents - Primary School
Access schools, authorities, lesson plans, resources, information in topic areas. Worthwhile, as based on Australian requirements.
Primary - Research modules [NSW Country Areas Program]
‘Our research modules [aka webquests] are designed to fit into the NSW Curriculum and are listed in the index in stages as a guide only. Students are encouraged to go beyond merely gather information and strive to select, analyse, organise and use information to provide creative answers or solutions to set questions or situations’. - Resources for Practising Teachers
Queensland University of Technology Library. ‘An introductory guide to some of the resources that can assist and inform your work as an educator’. - Round Table Education
There are Teaching Tools, Workshops, Tuition and Classroom [Resources]. You can download a Free Activity but other material is Not Free. Stated to be ‘a revolutionary approach in connecting the national curriculum to best teaching practices’.
- School Market Place
‘School Market Place is a school resource portal for Schools and school suppliers to connect with one another. School Market Place also provides teacher and parent resources including teaching and learning articles, lesson plans, forums, ideas and tips’. -
School Materials and Resources [National Library of Australia]
‘Online and downloadable materials and resources available for your classroom, school visit, or families at home. Access a much larger range of Library online exhibitions and websites through these specific links to teacher notes and schools pages’. - Simple Games to Improve Creativity
‘The aim is to promote and foster creativity. I update the site weekly with new content. The generator is a useful tool as it allows visitors to create their own games to use in their classes. Teachers of virtually any subject can easily incorporate these games and challenges into their classes’. - Sites2See
This link gives access to an index of all the sites available for Primary, Secondary and TAFE levels and covering all curriculum areas. A number of individual pages are already included on this site. - Sites Requested by Teachers
Beenleigh State School. Grouped in curriculum areas, further grouped at three levels across Primary Schooling.
Highly Recommended ! - Skwirk
‘Online education portal featuring syllabus-specific content for Australian school students in every State and Territory. Skwirk covers the core subjects studied in Australian primary and secondary schools’. Fee-based [$99 per year at time of inclusion.]
Well presented ! - Sue’s Web Links
Sue Lemmer, a South Australian teacher. Extensive links for Using the Internet, Classroom Themes, Australian Themes, General Topics, Teacher Pages.
Primary
Well presented ! - Sun Safely Resources for Kids and Teens
‘Dedicated to promoting sun protection to kids and teens. It is a resource for teachers and schools with links and information from around the world’. - TAOC®
‘The Art of Conversation. TAOC® has excellent Education and Therapeutic applications. With 300 fascinating and conversation building questions, comprehensive guidebook and endnotes, plus blank cards on which to write your own TAOC® questions, TAOC® is suitable for all ages’. Multiple packs, reasonable prices. - Teacher Links
By an Australian teacher. Links for KLAs, lessons, worksheets, resources, professional development, assessment, behaviour management, more.
Teachers, Primary - Teachers in the Loop
Quality Services for Teachers. ‘Be amazed at what’s on offer in NSW for teachers’. Primary, Secondary, different Regions, Professional Support, Excursions, After the Bell, Free Stuff. - Teacher’s Marketplace
‘By Aussie teachers specifically for other Aussie teachers. While there are lots of freebies, the resources are relevant, current and varied across the curriculum’. - Teaching Resource Websites
From the Department of Education and Training, NT.Annotated links to a small collection of websites in Numeracy, Literacy, Science, General and Indigenous Studies. - Teaching Treasures
Material and activities for regular as well as gifted and talented students. In subject areas, other sections. - The Hippo Helper
Eugene’s K-7 Teaching Resources. By a primary teacher. ‘Mostly it contains teaching resources and ideas for primary teachers in Australia but some stuff should be useful for teachers in general’. - The JEM Site
Using contemporary music to teach just about anything ! Activities set to music. Covers counting, language, mathematics, science. Fee-based, but quite cheap. Select by style, subject, educational level.
Early Learning, Primary - UNICEF : Primary School Resources
‘UNICEF Australia has a wide range of topical education resources for primary students to help you bring UNICEF into the classroom. Fact sheets, lesson plans and media links are available for teachers to download’. - Victorian Education Channel - Schools
‘A page for Teachers, Principals, Secondary and Primary students. The search contained within the Victorian Education Channel pages features websites from around the world and key resources presented by the Department of Education’. - Video Education Australasia
‘Around 2 000 titles across a range of subjects and suitable for various age levels. Purchased and used by libraries, training institutions, private organisations, as well as our traditional markets : primary, secondary schools, TAFE and University institutions’. Many Australian programs as well as those from overseas. - Virtual Teacher
Free teacher tools, sites for different levels, LOTE & ESL, resources, links, dictionaries, Australian newspaper links, mind candy, more. -
ZooWhiz
‘ZooWhiz is ready for regular day-to-day use, and you can start using it now as we continue to add new features and enhancements’ Use Free or Premium Accounts to access curriculum-based learning in Maths, Reading, Word Skills, Punctuation, Grammar, at school, at home or link both areas.
Looks very good !