Bio Cube Creator
This resource is useful for use across Years 5-12. Students use this interactive tool to synthesise their ideas in preparation for writing.
Library of Congress YouTube Channel
With archival material from the earliest Edison films to footage of present day debates, discussions, and events, the Library of Congress YouTube channel can serve educators of history, literature, music, and other subjects. The channel opens with a featured video, which, at the time of this writing, includes an excellent 33-minute film highlighting the Rosa Parks Collection at the LOC. Readers interested in specific thematic topics, will find that the Playlists here are plentiful. For instance, the Webcasts from the Library of Congress II category features 463 videos including discussions with Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and a new look at romance fiction in the digital age. Other categories include Topics in Science, Law and the Library, Music and the Brain, Hidden Treasures at the Library of Congress, and many others.
Minecraft
- Mindcraft
Investigate ways teachers across the world are using Minecraft to teach programing, Maths, Science, Art, Languages and History
Instant Monologues
Download 150 free instant monologues.
Global Words
Curriculum based teaching resources for Years 5 to 8 students, using a range of texts and text types, on the topics of refugees and migration, Indigenous peoples, neighbours and the Asia Pacific region, and sustainability.
The Teacher's Toolbox
This slew of intercultural resources from AFS-USA (formerly the American Field Service) offers lesson plans in Cultural Studies, Global Awareness, Human Rights, STEM Education, Social Activism, and Intercultural Learning. Each lesson plan is well-defined and easily implemented, with an overview, objectives, time for the lesson, materials, and a description of the activity. For example, under Cultural Studies, the lesson on Generalizations and Stereotypes takes approximately 45 minutes. Upon completion, students should be able to define the notion of culture, recognize stereotypes, and distinguish aspects of different cultures, among other objectives. Other lesson plans include Exploring Islamic Traditions, Microfinance, and a lesson on the "iceberg" analogy of how hidden dimensions of culture manifest.
Pobble
Tens of thousands of primary school teachers around the world are using Pobble to inspire their pupils to put pen to paper. Ready to use lesson materials, a global audience for pupils' work and tools to facilitate peer assessment all serve one purpose: making writing exciting again.
Maestro
Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many...
Available in the Senior English Teacher Resource Library - Insight Text Guide - MaestroInsight Text Guide - Maestro is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to Peter Goldsworthy's novel contains detailed character and chapter analysis and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.
Writers Speak to Kids
Video interviews of authors answering questions about their writing and what makes a good story.
Shakespeare Resources
These downloadable PDF guides to Shakespeare's plays can provide secondary school teachers with a rich background and erudite insights into the text. After introducing the play and providing a synopsis, the guide suggests exercises for helping students understand the cultural context, as well as how to decode Shakespeare's language. They then focus in on character, theme, conflict, and such literary devices as symbolism, foreshadowing, and irony. Readers will also find suggested ways in which the classic works can be utilized in both language arts and social studies classrooms, followed by an excellent list of suggested reading for educators who would like to explore more fully the subtle art of teaching Shakespeare.
A Teacher's Guide to:
Persuasive Language
Download this guide to Persuasive Language. This teaching resource "includes assessment tasks and marking criteria - a useful tool for teachers of students preparing
for NAPLAN testing in Years 3, 5, 7 & 9."
