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Humanities- Year 5
- An introduction to human rights and responsibilities-
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/introhumanrights/
- The universal declaration of human rights
HAss year 7 civics and
citizenship
This interactive resource looks at the creation of the Australian Constitution and then explores the process used
to change it - referendum

Relates to curriculum: The process for constitutional change through a referendum and examples of attempts to change the Australian Constitution by referendum, such as the
successful vote on the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967 or the unsuccessful vote on the Constitution Alteration (Establishment of Republic) 1999 (ACHCK049)

http://education.aec.gov.au/making-a-nation/module4/default.html#
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/L1474/index.html

Watch a talk show host interviewing people

about drug issues: students, health experts and
a studio audience. Look at drug usage, health
effects and peer pressure. Explore a range of
opinions including 'way out' ideas. Notice how
people interpret facts differently. Research a
topic, then describe your views on the key
issues. ...
Health - High School
This resource consists of illustrated slides with voice over presenting information about how the human body
requires food for growth and repair, energy and health what is a balanced diet as well as two brief student
activities. Gives the children choice to what they want to click on to learn about.
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Hass YEar 9 Geography- Scootle
Resources
World Geography: My Flashcard Maker
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/world-geography-myflashcard/id464904399?mt=8

● 33 sets of ready-made cards covering key terms in World Geography

● Able to make new flashcards
● Great tool for learning definitions and key terms as well as revision

The Cost of Dahaka’s Booming Textile Industry

http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1534718/
● 3 minute video discussing the pros and cons of a booming industry and the effects it can
have
● Geographies of interconnection
Year 1 Science - Weather
Scootle & Britannica School used to source.

https://school.eb.com.au/levels/primary/article/weather/442058

→ Reading level 1, categorised into areas, best to use this resource first to give background info on weather, then get them to use the BOM worksheet to fill out using their semantic knowledge.

http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/Students_Teachers/Worksheet19.shtml

→ worksheet for the children

http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/Students_Teachers/lesson19.shtml

→ for the teachers

Pages such as below can be used to go into more particular information about weather;

https://school.eb.com.au/levels/primary/article/cloud/440082 → clouds

https://school.eb.com.au/levels/primary/article/Earth/440292#264818 → science to do with earth and particularly, weather & seasons tabs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXnIlBtTsY → could be a good way into planets or other areas of science (references made throughout the video)
Year Three - English: Phonics &
Word Knowledge
Complete the word by finding the correct letter:

http://education.abc.net.au/spellblock-game/SpellBlocks.html
Upper Primary: Science (Plants)
Secret life of plants video by ABC found through Scootle

http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1520091/

Use of plants video by ABC found through Scootle

http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1520091/

Interactive game showing effect of water, heat and salinity on plants, found through Scootle

http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L10082/html/index.html
English year 3
Graphing a story
Maths yr 7-8
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/SurfaceAreaAndVolume/

Teachers could use this interactive website to help students understand area and
volume. Allowing kids to play around with the height length and width of the cubes
allows students to see how the area and volume change depending on the
dimensions of the cube/square.
Year 2 Natural Science: The
Volcano
An informational video aimed at early primary kids to introduce the geographical characteristics of the volcano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAmqsMQG3RM

A great interactive resource allowing early primary kids to navigate volcanoes, specifically the individual aspects that contribute to their eruptions.

http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L13/index.html

A worksheet to test knowledge acquired from.

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/volcano-worksheet-6388811

A practical science experiment

Year 5 English: POETRY
This is a resource for exploring three types of poems: haiku, list and cyber poems.
Students learn about poetry structure, themes, imagery and moods using poems
written by other poets, and then go onto to create their own poems:

http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L7943/index.html
Year 9 Shakespeare - WORD
PLAY -
http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/
This is a 5 minute clip exploring how the words of

media/523839/
shakespeare are still used today
English year 8
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L7951/index.html
Explore how words can convey different meanings depending on their context. Discover the meaning of the terms
'literal' and 'figurative'. Apply this knowledge to identifying when language is being used literally and figuratively.
Year 4 - HASS / Geography
Wilderquest

https://wilderquest.nsw.gov.au/#/
This interactive website explores six types of New South Wales environments – desert, alpine, woodlands,
rainforest, coast and town and their associated plants, animals and people.

It assists students in learning how to conduct scientific investigations and how to communicate those observations
and findings.
HASS - Year 4
One Hen

Start with a book, end with a business.

https://www.onehen.org/kidsforkids.php
“The resource contains videos, quizzes and games, as well as lesson plans, information and materials for
teachers and parents. It also provides information about real loans supporting microentrepreneurs around the
world and contains many external links.”

Resource is a tie in with a book called ‘One Hen’

 Maths - Year 7
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewi
ng/L125/index.html
Description: After teaching Equivalent Fractions and Decimals, this resource is an interactive
activity allowing students to integrate their knowledge to help a town planner to design site
plans. It includes conversion between fractions, percentages and decimals with the use of a
number line. This resource caters to a variety of math capabilities, allowing for a more
inclusive and comprehensive lesson.
Mathematics / Year 3 / Statistics and Probability / Chance

Conduct chance experiments, identify and describe possible outcomes and recognise variation in results (ACMSP067)

Elaborations
● conducting repeated trials of chance experiments such as tossing a coin or

Spinners: predict and test

Race two cars along a track. Use a coloured spinner (dial
with pointer) to determine which car moves along the track.

Use a spinner with two or three equal-sized sectors, each

coloured red or blue. Test the spinner over a number of
spins.

Compare the actual results with the expected results. Does

a fair spinner result in all cars winning equally often? Is the
colour with the largest sector on the spinner most likely to
be landed on?
Science - Year 4
The life-cycle of a butterfly

http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L1358/index.html

http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1478049/

These resources are interactive

English - Year 6
Writing narratives:Characters
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L8144/index.html

Little Lunch
https://actf.com.au/education-programs/little-lunch-app

Finish the Story

http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L1275/index.html#
Science - Year 8
https://www.sciencebydoing.edu.au/curriculum/student/from-little-
things/digital/unit-map
A set of digital activities about the features and structure of cells and their functions. It contains an array of
interactive activities to assist learning. The resource consists of three parts: the student digital activities; a student
guide that contains information and hands-on inquiry activities; and a teacher guide that provides an overview of
the lessons including worksheets and assessment.
English - Year 1
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/story-creator-easy-story-book/id545369477?mt=8

Create a digital book with photos or video, text, drawings and audio recordings. You can share a story, record a
procedure or retell a story from literature.
YEAR 4- Maths: moNEY AND
FINANCE
ttps://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewMetadata.action?id=M020868&q=MONEY+AND
+FINANCE&topic
This MoneySmart web page is designed to enable teachers to get the most out of ASIC's MoneySmart Teaching
program and resources. It guides teachers on where to find information on being a MoneySmart teacher,
professional development for teachers, primary and secondary teaching resources, and tips and tools to help with
personal money management.
HASS Year 4 - http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/search?accContentId=ACHASSK084&userlevel=%280%29
http://www.aushistorytimeline.com/

Australian History:
The nature of contact between Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples and others (e.g. the Macassans,
Europeans) and the impact that these interactions and colonisation had on the environment and people's lives
(e.g. dispossession, dislocation, the loss of lives through conflict, disease, loss of food sources and medicines).

Uses and features of the resource:

Multilayered website featuring an interactive historical timeline of Australia divided into decades post 1770s, as
well as a section on pre 1770s Indigenous and non-Indigenous history.
Collated archive footage, photos and articles relevant to what is presented.
Links to other websites and resources provided as well
Better suited to laptops or other flash compatible browsers.
Year 5 Science - ACSSU043
Students use this resource consisting of eight slides with diagrams, written explanation and voice-over to
understand how different organisms are adapted to survive in their habitat. There is a two-question quiz and a
summary slide.

http://www.resources.det.nsw.edu.au/Resource/Access/f7a0a168-7331-4176-ba73-d6f4f7c5e370/1ry slide.
 Year 4 Visual Arts
NGA iPad app Paper iPad app

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ngakids-art- https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/paper-by-
zone/id904766241?mt=8 fiftythree/id506003812?mt=8

Explore eight interactive activities inspired by works Jot down notes and sketch using five different
in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, drawing and painting tools. Create your own pages
Washington USA. Investigate visual conventions or journals and save the pages to your camera roll.
and understand more about design elements and
principles through artistic play. A range of portrait,
landscape, still-life and abstract paintings
Year 10 History: ACDSEH104
The Apology to Australia’s Indigenous people:

http://www.resources.det.nsw.edu.au/Resource/Access/200927ea-9484-4a25-
a83a-1fd1e7caa9ac/1
Maths - Year 3
Money and People

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/mst-resources/money-and-
people/index.html

This activity introduces students to different currencies around the world.

Year 5 Science (ACSSU043)
Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in
their environment

In this interactive activity from Shedd Aquarium, design a fish that has the right
adaptations, or traits, to help it survive in a reef environment. Choose a body,
mouth, and color/pattern, then release your fish into the ocean reef to search for
food and evade predators. Steer your fish around the reef to see how well it
survives with the traits that you gave it.

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/lsps07.sci.life.evo.buildafish/build-a-
fish/#.WoFbcaiWbIU
Year 4 - Humanities
This resource contains four activities that encourages students to explore the
cultural diversity found in Australian communities.

(Link is too long and goes off of page… so, Scootle -> search -> Difference
Differently: our communities [TLF ID M013276])
Science - Year 5

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scaleform.gardenDetectiveExpl
oreAnAustralianGardenESA

Students search for small creatures in a New Zealand garden. Find animals such as a bumblebee, a

weta and a woolly bear caterpillar. Have a close look at their body parts. Identify groups of

creatures that have similar body features such as wings or number of legs. Return all the animals to

their habitats. This learning object is a combination of two objects in the same series.
Year 8- HaSS: Australian History
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L5208/index.html
Explore perspectives on Australia’s Indigenous heritage through photos and text about Vincent Lingiari. Trace his
story, including the leadership of the Wave Hill walk-off and the struggle for land rights. Consider the hardship
endured by Indigenous peoples living on Wave Hill cattle station. Investigate barriers Lingiari faced and how
people reacted to his activities. Look at the response of the Australian Government to his campaign. Describe
how he increased understanding about land rights for Indigenous Australians. This learning object is one in a
series of ten objects.
Year 7,8,9 - geography
Tsunami - The Ultimate Guide

https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/the-ultimate-guide-tsunami/#/
HaSS:
Spatial Genie mapping
technology

http://www.spatialgenie.edu.au/sp
atialgenie/?defaultLayerName=en
gine:perth1939

Must create account

HaSS Year 9 History
Scootle resources to assist with Gallipoli from the ABC
https://schoolsequella.det.nsw.edu.au/file/983d7e49-4edf-4311-aae6-5eb362137c43/1/7699/index.htm

Interact with a timeline of the Gallipoli landing. Perspectives from both the ANZACs and the Ottomans.
Year 9 Science
http://www.resources.det.nsw.edu.au/Resource/Access/fcf78b9e-1ffd-4285-97c4-
9bea07842f71/1
In this interactive you are a surgeon performing coronary bypass surgery, one of the most invasive of all
medical procedures. Students develop an understanding of the medical procedures involved and the complexity
of the task.

(ACSSU150) Multi-cellular organisms contain systems of organs that carry out specialised functions that enable them to survive and
reproduce

(ACSHE135) Science and technology contribute to finding solutions to a range of contemporary issues; these solutions may impact
on other areas of society and involve ethical considerations
Year 8 Civics and Citizenship
http://ptd2.azurewebsites.net/index.html

‘Be the Change’ is an interactive resource about becoming an effective agent of

change through civic action in a local community. Students present an idea to the
local council with the aim to tackle local issues.
YEar 7 HPE: Basketball Skills
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L943/index.html

Interactive game which the students fill in

the blanks about key attributes in
basketball; shooting, dribbling and passing.

Students can use these skills on the

computer and take them onto the court.
Year 9/10 health & PE
Through scootle

Learn, review test component

Gives kids the chance to recheck their answers

https://schoolsequella.det.nsw.edu.au/file/efe46238-84cd-4dc5-9c9d-
eec95c0fbb5c/1/balanced_diet.zip/balanced_diet/index.html
HASS Year 7
Investigating one ancient society - Egypt

The physical features and how they influenced the civilisation that developed there

The Geography of Ancient Egypt:

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/geography/home.html

This is an online interactive resource about ancient Egypt

developed by the British Museum. The resource has ten

sections; each section contains three elements: 'Story', '

Explore' and 'Challenge'. The 'Challenge' section comprises

an interactive activity.
Chemistry
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L2568/index.html
HaSS: Year 8 investigating History
When looking at history, it is good to reflect and think about how history is written,
and how we come to know it.

http://www.resources.det.nsw.edu.au/Resource/Access/a61f0147-74fd-4eea-9799-
4a7956b15a2f/1

What makes history writing unique? What are some common styles of writing for
history? What makes for good history writing?

Good for essays, source construction (analysis) and students having their own
chance at writing a source. Interactive and Australian.
Year 9 History
Changing the Constitution- Australian Electoral Commision. Interactive Resource
with activities designed to teach students how the Constitution works and the role
of different branches of government.
Year 10 physics
https://schoolsequella.det.nsw.edu.au/file/8116d566-e652-4a97-a4e0-
895faa8e9bed/1/bal_forces.zip/bal_forces/index.html

Quick interactive learning tool which allows students to test knowledge on one
small part of a topic.
 Science
- Year 4
A great resource for a year 4 science lesson about animals living off each other
and their environment.

http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L25/L25/index.html
English - Year 3
https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=9078411

A resource that can be used to revise and test spelling words. Activities on the
website for each spelling list are spelling test, teach me, play a game, flash cards
& vocab test. The website provides a list of spelling words but you can also import
your own list of words.
English - Year 3 Graphing a
story
Graphing a story
A graph is a drawing that tells you something. You can draw a line that goes up high when something exciting happens, then goes down low when
nothing much is happening. You can add labels to your graph so that other people will understand it.