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ABC Education and Melbourne Water have launched a series of classroom resources to teach primary students all about the water cycle, waterways and wastewater.

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Nominate resources - Pest

Digital platforms can benefit a student’s education in many ways, but as these platforms change the relationship between home and school, children’s personal information may be impacted.

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ESA PEST - nominate 22.04.24

Damien O’Brien’s innovative approaches to learning are making an impact on students in a remote NT community and the broader education community.

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Learning a language helps students better understand others in an increasingly diverse Australia - ABC Education

Studying a language allows one to see deeper cultural patterns that aren't necessarily accessible through learning about different foods, festivals and cultural traditions.

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Piñata Party Hundreds (3-digit place value) - ABC Education

As a team, use your knowledge of hundreds, tens and ones place values to help the goats release the treats from the piñata and have the GOAT party!

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Immigration in Regional Victoria - ABC Education

Since the gold rush of the 1850s, regional Victoria has become home to people from all around the world.

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ESA TEST - Nominate resource 16.04.24

Many wonderful institutions have educational resources to help schools commemorate Anzac Day, each offering a different way to engage primary and secondary students with Anzac history. Here are ten free resources for students, teachers, parents and anyone else interested in learning more about the Anzacs.

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Features of places - Beaches

In this sequence of 6 activities, students explore the natural and human features of beaches and develop an understanding of the way coastal areas are used for leisure, recreation and sport.

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Holidays, past and present

This three- part activity compares similarities and differences between family holidays of the past with the present. Students view the Allen family's photo album (1899 - 1900) and compare them with holidays they have experienced.

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Celebration and Satire

This lesson plan guides students to compare and contrast different perspectives of the French Revolution as depicted in two works of art. They will discuss the use of satire and caricature to comment on historical and current events and will create satirical cartoons based on contemporary issues.

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Sustainability and Sydney Metro – Stage 2

This inquiry-based unit of work was created, trialled and peer reviewed as part of a professional learning program in inquiry-based learning for school teachers. The professional learning courses were part of a pilot partnership between the NSW Government’s Sydney Metro transport agency and Western Sydney University.

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How do you make a difference?

In this learning sequence, students determine improvements they would like to see in public transport. They research ways of suggesting improvements to public transport authorities and other decision makers, and prepare letters and emails for this purpose. They prioritise future improvements and develop arguments to support ...

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Make a law: House of Representatives

Discover how bills—proposed laws—are introduced, debated and voted on in the House of Representatives by turning your class into a Parliament and doing it yourself! This lesson plan outlines the steps to run a role play in the classroom and includes a video illustrating the process, teacher notes, class preparation and ...

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The world of Mickey of Ulladulla

This series of learning activities is based on a past State Library of NSW exhibition, Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys containing links to video content and collection items including artworks by Mickey of Ulladulla, letters, journals and official documents. Activity 1, explores how life for the Aboriginal people changed ...

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Whose shoes?

This sequence of 2 learning activities explores the present and the past using photographs of shoes from the State Library of NSW's collection. Students are encouraged to use time sequencing vocabulary e.g. then and now. Activity 1 asks students to compare a variety of shoes for purpose, similarities and differences. The ...

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World War I - the Western Front

In this learning activity students locate and sequence the places where Australians fought and describe the nature of warfare during the Gallipoli campaign. Students and teachers are provided with links to a rich collection of diaries, letters, maps, photographs, artworks, posters and newspapers on the Great War. Students ...

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Human landscapes – inquiry-based learning through Sydney Metro – Stage 4

This inquiry-based unit of work was created, trialled and peer reviewed as part of a professional learning program in inquiry-based learning for school teachers. The professional learning courses were part of a pilot partnership between the NSW Government’s Sydney Metro transport agency and Western Sydney University. Students ...

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Data and information

This is a unit for Year 5 from the Scope and sequence resources from the DT Hub. The topic of data collection and presentation is organised into four key elements. Use this flow of activities to plan and assess students against the relevant achievement standards. Students collect their own data and analyse the resulting ...