Geography
Resources [PDF]
Stage 5 & 6 NSW - Years 9 - 12
Secondary

This Geography Teachers Association of NSW Bulletin
contains a resource for learning about women in Ethiopia with
fistula and the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation. It was prepared
by experienced Geography teacher and long time Hamlin volunteer,
Lynne Acworth. |
CSIRO
- Indigenous Calendars
An old resource but an excellent one. 8 Calendars are
available as PDFs to download and laminate.

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SBS
Learn

Topics covered: English, Mathematics,
Science, Humanities & Social Sciences, The Arts, Technologies,
Health & Physical Education, Languages, Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Histories and Cultures,
Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia
Primary
Middle
Secondary
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The
Conversation

The Conversation is an independent source of news and
views, sourced from the academic and research community and
delivered direct to the public.
Our team of professional editors work with university, CSIRO and
research institute experts to unlock their knowledge for use by the
wider public.
Access to independent, high-quality, authenticated, explanatory
journalism underpins a functioning democracy. Our aim is to allow
for better understanding of current affairs and complex issues. And
hopefully allow for a better quality of public discourse and
conversations.
On the Job uses this website articles to encourage deep thinking by
students. The articles can be used by students in Years 7 - 12.
Middle
Secondary
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Australian
Eggs - Education

Design and Technologies, Digital Technologies, Health and Physical
Education.
There are lessons for Primary students (K - 6) [6 lessons] as well
as Secondary (7 - 10) [4 lessons].
Each lesson is downloadable and extensive.
Primary
Middle
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Try
Engineering

This website contains a range of resources with lesson
plans
Click here to see the range of
lesson plans
[PDF - 16 pages; shows content; and, targeted age]
Primary
Middle
Secondary
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Atlas
of Living Australia
Get your students to look up the species in their area. Select :
Explore your area and put in your address and up comes all the
species! Fascinating!
Primary
Middle
Secondary

iNaturalist
Students can observe, record and add to this
database. A great way to become a Citizen Scientist
Primary
Middle
Secondary

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ABC's Big Ideas 9 June 2020

"Confirmation bias. It’s enemy number one of all
balanced and evidence-based debate. This urge to believe what you’re already
convinced of, regardless of the facts.
The solution is ‘critical thinking’ – the skill to discern emitted variables
and wrong causalities, to look at all sides of an issue.
And then to align your point of view with the evidence."
Critical Thinking presented by Gresham College. April 22, 2020.
Speaker
Alex Edmans - Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham
College, Professor of Finance at London Business School
Duration: 54min 5sec
Broadcast: Tue 9 Jun 2020, 8:05pm
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Ockham's
Razor: 26 July 2020
We need to open science up to everyone

Associate Professor Alice Motion
Head - Science Communication Outreach, Particiipation and Education
(SCOPE) Research Group, School of Chemistry, The University of
Sydney
Alice speaks of a program allowing and encouraging students to be
citizen scientists and contribute to real research.
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The
Philosopher's Zone
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4
Corners 4 July 2016 - Future Proof


There are startling and credible predictions
that more than five million Australian jobs will simply disappear in
the next 15 years, as a result of technology. That's 40% of the jobs
that exist in Australia today.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Answering that question is only going to get harder as many of the
jobs our kids will do haven't been invented yet. And if parents
believe that steering their kids towards "safe" professions like
accountancy will guarantee them a job, they're in for a shock.
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This
Working Life - ABC Radio National
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ReSolve
A
brilliant maths by inquiry Australian website. "This is an
innovative national program that promotes relevant and engaging
mathematics teaching and learning from K - 10. It is a collaboration
of the Australian Academy of Science & the Australian Association of
Mathematics Teachers." (Website)
I have seen it in action - Reconciliation &
Mathematics - a wonderful and different way to teach Reconciliation!
(Frances Moore)

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Unstacked
- State Library of NSW

Here is
The Conversation about "Unstacked": 28 April 2017
It is a webpage that updates to show what items people are accessing
from the State Library of NSW’s collection. When people look at a
collection item, it pops up on Unstacked. It is essentially a window
into the collection, and an insight into what people are interested
in at any given time.

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ABC's
Landline

This show has many examples of people within jobs from
Beekeepers to Inventors to Farmers to Scientists. The Archive is
extensive.
We have used this website in a lot of Activities throughout On the
Job. This website allows students to see points of view in a
detailed way.
Behind
the News [BTN]

Behind the News (more commonly known as BTN) is an educational news
program aimed at 10-13 year old kids. It unpacks and explains news
and current affairs to young people in a dynamic and creative way.
A range of opinions are presented so students gain a greater
awareness of differing points of view. Through watching BTN
Classroom, students increase their understanding of complex
political, economic, environmental and social issues.
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University
of Melbourne, Grainger Museum:
Teaching
with Unique Collections
Secondary
Teacher

The Library of University of Melbourne
has developed teaching strategies for 48 objects (2020). Examples include
Life on the Victorian Goldfields; to a Portrait of Arthur Streeton by Henry
Walter Barnett; to Bushrangers by William Strutt; to a Lock of Hair
belonging to Hans Christian Andersen.
Each object has a range of ideas and the PDF is downloadable.
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Jane
Hart's Top Tools for Learning
This UK website tallies up votes from teachers
around the world about learning tools. September is the results
month for the year. |
On
the Wards.org


Secondary
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