DIGITAL LEARNING
The following resources are digital resources aimed at building students' skills in different curriculum areas. Many of the resources require a parent to create an account for their child and provide them with login details.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Some digital resources below allow access for students using their EDU Schoolsnet account and parents are responsible for managing home use. For more information on this, please contact the school directly.
Resources that are marked as self guided include functionality where students can take a placement test or parents can assign a task/series of tasks for their child to work through independently. For resources without this mark, we recommend parents work with students to identify appropriate content and tasks.
Maths
English
Digital Technology
Science
Social Studies
The Arts
Language
EDU DIGITAL BACKPACK
The 'Digital Backpack' is our online portal which provides safe and secure access to a range of online learning platforms for students.
The Digital Backpack
can be accessed from any device with a modern internet browser at school, home, anywhere!
Is an easy way for students to access all of our online learning services with just a single SchoolsNET username and password.
Is hosted and protected by secure ACT Government identity and access management systems.
For more detailed information on the digital backpack, click here for the Education Directorate information sheet.
Wonderopolis
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Wonderopolis is an informational site that asks and answers interesting questions about the world. Every day, a new "Wonders of the Day" question is posted, and each is designed to get kids and families to think, talk, and find learning moments together in everyday life. The questions cover dozens of categories from animals ("Why do skunks stink?) to cultures ("What is zydeco?") to history ("Who is Uncle Sam?") to science ("What is space?"). Click on any question to find facts, information, suggestions for exploring further, useful links, and videos. Students in younger years will be able to engage in this resource with support.
DKfindout!
About:
DKfindout! allows your child to search, learn, and explore information on a safe and secure site. Perfect for help with homework, DKās clear, reliable, and highly visual content covers all curriculum subjects and more! There are quizzes, videos and animations, and new content being added all the time to engage and fascinate your child. There are also articles for parents explaining the curriculum your child is being taught, ideas about how you can help them, and quick links to other DK products that will support your childās learning.
CoolMath 4Kids
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Extending students' mathematical thinking through games.
Coolmath.com
Our first site! Coolmath.com offers "math for ages 13-100" -- explanations that are easy to grasp on topics like algebra, pre-calculus and more. (I started my career as a math teacher, so it's a great pleasure for me to help people finally understand -- and even enjoy! -- doing math.)
Coolmath4Kids
For our 12 and under users, Coolmath4Kids is an amusement park of math, games, and more, designed to teach math and make it FUN.
Coolmath Games
This is our brain-training site, for everyone, where logic & thinking meet fun & games. These games have no violence, no empty action, just a lot of challenges that will make you forget you're getting a mental workout!
Prodigy
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Prodigy is a self guided online math program where users meet a friendly creature who guides them as they enter a fantasy world filled with battles and rewards. As kids encounter monsters to battle, they must answer math questions to earn a spell. The spell helps kids win the battle and move forward in the game.
Start by setting up a parent home account and create a child login. Once a child starts the program they will undertake a placement test to ensure their tasks are aimed at their current ability level. Once a placement test is completed, parents can assign particular concept areas (eg. place value, addition, multiplication) as a focus or students can just work through the program independently.
Turtle Diary
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This website provides students with a range of fun educational online games, videos, worksheets, experiments, art and craft and more.
Suitable for a Preschool to Year 6.
Study Ladder
Please note, some classes at Curtin Primary School may already use this resource in the classroom, so message your child's teacher to see if they already have an account set up.
About:
Studyladder is a website that features lessons on a wide variety of subjects for kids in pre-K through 6th grade. The site has some interactive games, videos, and other content. The site is easy to search; grade levels are color-coded, and you can also search by type of resource.
Head over to the website and set up a parent account before creating your child's login. From the parent portal you can assign tasks and monitor your child's progress.
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Khan Academy
About:
Khan Academy is a free website and educational app that includes thousands of educational videos aimed at self-paced instruction. For math concepts there are a very large selection of practice exercises, organized by topic, with instant feedback and progress data.
Khan Academy has a thorough guide for setting up the program for home use that can be accessed at by clicking here.
Khan Academy Kids
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After providing and confirming an email address, parents create a user account for each kid using the app. When kids start, they meet and play with friendly animal guides. Then, activities are automatically presented according to age and past performance. There's content available for preschoolers all the way through first graders. Topics rotate among math, ELA, logic, and socio-emotional learning games, videos, and books, with opportunities for exploration and creative expression. After completing activities, kids choose a prize to add to their animal friends' collections. Kids and parents can also browse and choose activities by topic or type.
Khan Academy Kids has a thorough guide for setting up the program for home use that can be accessed at by clicking here.
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Scratch
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Scratch (version 3.0) is the latest iteration of the block-based coding language created by MIT's Lifelong Kindergarten Group.
It is not required to create an account to use Scratch but if your child wants to save projects they are working on, you should assist them in setting up a login (no personal details are required).
Scratch has some great getting started tutorials and guides you can access by clicking here.
Scratch Jr
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Scratch Jr is an introductory programming language that enables young children (ages 5-7) to create their own interactive stories and games. Children snap together graphical programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves -- then use the programming blocks to make their characters come to life.
Free lesson plans are available by clicking here.
Typing Club
Please note, some classes at Curtin Primary School may already use this resource in the classroom, so message your child's teacher to see if they already have an account set up.
About:
TypingClub is a typing and keyboarding program with lessons and incentives that help kids learn to touch-type (typing using all fingers, without looking at the keyboard). It guides students through brief, easily digestible keyboarding lessons with a set of corresponding speed and accuracy assessments for each.
Set your child up with an account, and away they go! Users progress through the program independently.
Scholastic Learn @ Home
About:
Scholastic's free Learn at Home program includes 20 days' worth of curricula to help students continue learning when they cant access school. The daily lessons for pre-K through grade 6-plus include four separate learning experiences, built around a story or video.. The lessons last up to three hours, and can be completed on any device.
Parent support is recommended for junior years.
Duolingo
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Duolingo is a free language learning app that helps kids (and adults) learn a language through short, game-like exercises, and motivates you to continue learning with a "streak" feature that tracks the number of days you've reached your point goal.
Set up an account for your child using the app or web interface and assign them a language to learn (we recommend Indonesian at it aligns with our curriculum).
Lalilo
About:
Lalilo is a web-based literacy app for K-2 teachers. It focuses on early literacy skills. Students journey through different worlds and meet cartoon characters. Along the way, they complete activities, read books, and progress on a well-structured learning path. As students progress, Lalilo leans on artificial intelligence to offer students the targeted exercises and repeat things as necessary.
First set up a parent account and select "Homeschool Parent". This will let you establish your child as a student. From there, the program will guide you through the remainder of getting your child set up.
Hopscotch
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For younger students, Hopskotch is an iPad app that allows kids to program their own games and animations, letting their creativity run wild while learning the basics of programming. The programming language Hopskotch uses works with drag and drop scripts that activate when āplayā is pressed. As the students advance, they can add more features and custom events to run their code.
Free lesson plans are available by clicking here and signing up.
ABCYA
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ABCya provides over 400 fun and educational games for grades PreK through 6. Our activities are designed by parents and educators, who understand that children learn better if they are having fun.
Games are categorized by grade and subject, and cover topics such as multiplication, parts of speech, typing, pattern recognition, and more. With so much variety, there is sure to be something for kids at all learning levels and styles.
Storybird
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Storybird is a great digital tool for writing stories in a visually appealing way, thus motivating students to write and read stories.
Tynker
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Tynker is a website based on teaching students all aspects of computer programming and coding. Available as an app on devices or to play in browser.
Suitable for Kindergarten to Year 6.
Tinkercad
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From mind to design in minutes.
Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!
Suitable for Kindergarten to Year 6.
Spelling City
About:
VocabularySpellingCity.com is a K-12 game-based learning site and app that offers 40+ engaging vocabulary, spelling, phonics, and writing activities to build reading comprehension. Students can work at their own pace and receive instant feedback upon submitting the completed test.
A guide to getting set up can be found by clicking here.
Brain POP
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Continue learning at home with BrainPOP's entertaining and rigorous resources, and keep your children engaged and on-track.
Tap into your childrenās innate curiosity and set them up for success with the best teacher-approved content, games, and tools. BrainPOP's materials and resources empower children from K-12 to build deep knowledge in an engaging and safe space.
Languages Online: Indonesian
About:
āLanguages Onlineā is suitable for most students, as the levels within each category allow each student to work within their own ability and then supports them to extend their knowledge.
Students can work their way through the levels. Access interactive tasks and/or worksheets, if you have access to a printer.
This website is created and run by āVictoria Educationā, so it is reputable and safe for students to use.
Origo at Home
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Weekly, digital content plans for home use. The weekly plans contain activities for each day, along with digitally accessible or downloadable resources, designed for delivery by a caregiver or remote teacher. These resources complement the mathematical concepts and skills your students are learning at their year level.
All Digital School
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A website to help both teachers and parents deal with the education of kids remotely. All digital School has a number of guides for teachers and parents to show them what tools/resources they need to move their teaching online. It also features an online directory of educational digital resources and tools for both teachers and parents.
The directory is organized into categories, grade/year levels, resource/tool type and price (including the free ones). Users can easily navigate through the directory and filter out the results to locate what they are looking for.
Topmarks
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Topmarks gives children the opportunity to learn online, through safe, fun and engaging games and activities.
DIY.org
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For crafty kids, DIY.org offers thousands of courses and projects with how-to videos for ages 4-13-plus.
First set up a parent account before creating your child's login. Once a child is logged in they have access to a very large selection of projects and course topics including drawing, photography, science, music, Lego-building and Minecraft-video making.
Reading Eggs
Please note, some classes at Curtin Primary School already use this resource in the classroom, so message your child's teacher to see if they already have an account set up.
About:
ABC Reading Eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities.