Teacher Tools and Resources

DoE: Learning on Demand - Learning on demand has been created to facilitate all staff with their professional learning. Keep coming back to this page to access the new opportunities that will be continually added to the site, or to see what is available as your needs change.

Simultaneous Learning at Home and School videos - Enhance your confidence to deliver learning to students at home and at school simultaneously, using the same unit of work.

Common Sense Education - from using video to project-based learning, get recommendations on the best tools for virtual learning.

Cool Australia - a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting teachers with high quality teaching tools, resources and professional development courses.

HSC Hub - Contains high-quality, on-demand resources that teachers can provide to their students to help them prepare for their exams. Aligned to syllabus and carefully curated.

Scootle - a national repository that provides Australian schools with more than 20,000 digital resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum.

Teacher Resource Hub - AITSL - a range of resources to support teaching and school leadership across Australia.

General Resources

ABC Education - cross curricular resources including videos, podcasts, digital books, articles, games, and teaching and study guides.

Smithsonian Institute Open Access Library - The Smithsonian is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex. Here you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images with free usage rights ie. creative commons zero. Access nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from the collections of 19 museums, 9 research centres, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

English

Year 7: Letters to the editor, speeches (Greta Thunberg) and sustainability

BBC: Speeches that Shook the World - short video clips of famous speeches and the elements of good speeches

Year 8: Creative writing, Malala Yusef speech

Pobble 365 - An online resource with a series of quick activities to be completed every day to support student’s literacy and creative writing capacity.

Year 9: Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

Google Arts & Culture: Shakespeare - a large collection of Shakespeare artefacts, digital museum exhibits, videos about Shakespeare, Shakespearean theatre companies etc.

Open Culture: Virtual Tour of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - virtual tour of the Globe Theatre with embedded videos and text

Year 10: Creative writing, Novel - Lord of the Flies / Of Mice and Men

Lord of the Flies Audiobook (YouTube) - free and accessible audiobook of Lord of the Flies when students have access to YouTube

Lord of the Flies Audiobook (to download) - free and accessible audiobook that can be downloaded and posted to google classroom

Lord of the Flies (pdf) - digital copy of The Lord of The Flies (again, not aesthetically awesome but the whole text is there in the correct chapters etc.)

Of Mice and Men (YouTube) - free and accessible audiobook for Of Mice and Men when the students have access to YouTube

Of Mice and Men (pdf) - digital copy of Of Mice and Men (not great looking but the whole book is there correct and it can be downloaded and posted)

Of Mice and Men (Unit of Work) - (not digital but looks like a good resource students and teachers to aid in the teaching of Of Mice and men)

Science

ANTSO: Virtual Reality (app) - virtual reality app where students can take a tour of the opal nuclear reactor (you can ring ANSTO to do a virtual tour as a teleconference)

Natural History: Virtual Tours - virtual tours of various Smithsonian exhibits

Experiment and Sample Data Library - Sample data sets for loads of scientific investigations for years 7-10, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

Year 7: Matter

STILE Education has a whole unit of work on this including embedded quizzes, videos etc. It can also be modified to suit your students.

Year 8: Health and Disease

STELR Future Health Fact File - document available digitally or for download whereby students read articles and respond to questions. All questions are structured around the general capabilities and cross-curricular priorities.

Year 9: Waves

PHET: Wave on a string

DoE lesson plan available that walks students through use of the online virtual oscilloscope-student handout attached

Education Perfect (requires login) - amazing resource with powerpoint, interactives, quizzes-all through education perfect

Year 10: Motion

PHET: Forces

Motion Scholastic: Force and Motion

HSIE

HISTORY

General

NFSA: Australian Screen - An archive of 1000’s of historically relevant video clips

Harvard University: Tomb of Queen Meresankh III – virtual exhibit of the Tomb of Queen Meresankh

Year 7: Ancient Egypt

Louvre Virtual Tour (requires Flash) - virtual tour of the Louvre exhibit on Egyptian antiquities

Year 9: WWI, WWII

Google Arts & Culture: World War II - a full series of artefacts, videos, museum collections

Sydney Jewish Museum: Online Excursions - opportunities to book virtual excursions

Google Arts & Culture: Anne Frank - take a digital tour of Anne Frank’s house

Year 10: Vietnam War

Google Arts & Culture: Vietnam War - a photographic display of the Vietnam War

Vietnam War - click here for more resources

GEOGRAPHY

Year 8: Interconnections

BBC: Globalisation, Trade and Interdependence - clips and revision and quizzes on globalisation and trade

Year 9: Changing Places

BBC: Urban Environments - clips, revision and quizzes on urban environments (very self-directed)

Year 10: Human Wellbeing Around the World

BBC: Geography - information and resources about physical geography, human geography, the environment and geographical skills.

ABORIGINAL STUDIES

NAIDOC website - Information, news and resources about NAIDOC Week

NAIDOC Teaching guides - Teaching resources addressing The Australian Curriculum: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Culture

Dust Echoes - ABC Education resource - a series of 12 animated Dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to Country and Aboriginal custom and law.

National Reconciliation Week - Information and resources by Reconciliation Australia , an independent, not-for-profit organisation. Their vision of national reconciliation is based on five critical dimensions: race relations, equality and equity, institutional integrity, unity and historical acceptance.

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Google Arts & Culture: Pop culture – Complete museum collections, videos and virtual walk throughs of popular culture museums

HSC: Society and Culture: Personal Interest Projects - Extracts of award winning Personal Interest Projects (PIPs) related to (Stage 6) Society and Culture studies across New South Wales. High achieving Society and Culture students share their top tips for completing an outstanding major project (State Library of NSW)

CAPA

MUSIC

Sydney Opera House: Experience the Sydney Opera House from your house - see live broadcasts, full performance recordings and archival footage.

Birthplaces of Music: A Virtual Field Trip - history of different types of music “virtual tour” with questions and text and maps to see key locations etc.

Karaoke Version - mp3 instrumental tracks to download and use at a small cost. The songs are cover versions of the originals.

Free Music Archive - free music and royalty free music. Search here to find and use music for your projects.

VISUAL ARTS

National Gallery of Australia - bringing art to people at home by sharing their best resources and activities for online viewing and learning.

Art Gallery of NSW - collections of international and Australian art. Enjoy the art experience and gain inspiration through their collections, exhibitions, programs and research.

National Portrait Gallery - Explore portraiture and come face to face with Australian identity, history, culture, creativity and diversity.

ABC: Look Within Self Portraiture - eBook outlining the history of portraiture

Google Arts & Culture – go on a virtual tour of museums and art galleries or choose a theme (like expressionism) and find videos, collections etc.

Wollongong Art Gallery - See information about the latest exhibitions and collections available at the Wollongong Art Gallery.

Newcastle Art Gallery - Virtual Tours - Learn about iconic works from the Newcastle Art Gallery collection

DRAMA

General

Australian Plays - hosts the world’s largest online showcase of the best Australian playwriting, featuring the combined catalogues of Australia's leading theatrical publishers. This site is designed to make it easy to browse the comprehensive catalogue and find the ideal Australian play for your next production.

NIDA - Schools Program offers performing arts educational activities for both students and teachers, providing specialist training and access to industry professionals and guest artists.

Sydney Theatre Company - Explore current and past productions, including many HSC texts, through comprehensive classroom resources, and follow the journey of a play from page to stage with STC Documentaries.

Royal Shakespeare Company - provides a range of teaching resources, including teacher packs and image and video galleries, to help you bring Shakespeare to life in the classroom.

9/10: Property of the clan

Sydney Opera House - digital season from the opera house has drama performances released weekly.

11: Creative projects. Elements of production

Belvoir Theatre - Our Education Program provides students and teachers with insights into the work of Belvoir and first hand experiences of the theatre-making process.

National Theatre (YouTube) - The National Theatre, UK, streams full length plays on their Youtube channel every Thursday.

DANCE

Australian Ballet - Behind the scenes, the production centre, studios and information about performances and new ballets

Sydney Dance Company - Contemporary technique, allet, Hip Hop and more!

ABC Education Dance videos: various Australian dance groups perform contemporary and traditional dances; also includes interviews with some performers.

PDHPE

General

Australian Screen: Sport & Health - free videos addressing a number of different health topics (National Film and Sound Archive of Australia)

Google Arts & Culture - at the moment they are doing digital tours of famous sporting stadiums

Royal Life Saving Australia - educational resources that can be used for Health and Physical Education and cross-curricula learning outcomes.

Year 8: PE - Invasion Games

Physical Educator - Invasion Games - videos and outlines of rules for novel invasion games

FIFA #WorldCupAtHome - FIFA is streaming 4 new football games per week to their Youtube Channel (virtual excursion?)

Year 9/10: Health - Staying safe behind the wheel

On The Move: Play it Safe - A series of online lesson with embedded activities that encourages students to analyse online data and create a prevention campaign.

Maths

General

WooTube - Lesson videos

Learn Alberta - Videos and interactive activities (requires Flash) about number, patterns and relations, shape and space, statistics and probability (Canadian)

Year 7: Fractions

Khan Academy - Fractions

Learn Alberta - Fractions (requires Flash) - a video and interactive activity with associated worksheet that leads students through utilising fractions

PHET - Fraction Matcher - an introductory activity to fractions - fun and easy to do

Year 8: Pythagoras

Learn Alberta - Pythagoras (requires Flash) - a video and interactive activity with a worksheet that leads students through the activity.

Year 9: Area and volume

Learn Alberta - Surface Area (requires Flash) - interactives, quizzes and associated worksheets on surface area and volume.

TAS

Unit 1: the built environment (models, scale, drawing / architecture, building materials, sustainable resources)

PBS: Engineering Design and Practices - videos, interactive lessons and quizzes about the design and engineering process.

STELR: Sustainable Housing Fact File - digital book with information and worksheets on concepts related to sustainable housing. Can be downloaded.

Unit 2: food around the world- culture, recipes, food habits, celebrations and traditions

Google Arts & Culture - artworks, historical artefacts, stories, virtual museum exhibit walkthroughs of all the world’s best museums. There might be a virtual museum exhibit on the history of food.

Languages

Japanese: Personal relationships

Waking up in Japan - (Scootle) a stand alone lesson sequence with embedded links that sees students create a presentation in groups about a particular aspect of Japanese life.

Go Nihongo - This resource is a series of videos with supporting activities for learners of Japanese across Stages 3-6.

EAL/D

The Henry Parkes Equity Resource Centre Library - Search the library collection of over 45,000 resources including multi-media classroom resources, teaching and learning resources, and professional development materials. Items can be requested and sent in the mail.

ABC iView with closed caption - an A-Z list of ABC iview programs with closed caption

ABC Education EAL/D resources - resources on various topics for EAL/D learners

Freepik - graphic designs and images freely available to everyone

Free Audiobooks While schools are closed Audible is providing free stories for kids of all ages. Audible Stories is a free website where kids can listen to hundreds of Audible audio titles across six different languages—English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese—for free, so they can keep learning, dreaming and just being kids.

The Smartcopying website provides some general guidelines and best practice approaches to managing copyright issues for distance learning during the Covid-19 crisis.

Unsplash - photos and images freely available to everyone

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone in their own language

Cool Australia Organisation - Experience mindfulness through the stunning time-lapse photography of Louie Schwartzberg. Nature's beauty can be easily missed but not through Louie Schwartzberg's lens (a 9 min TED talk).

Smiling Mind - resources and a free app to help you start understanding and practising mindfulness