Gardening
Kids Gardening
‘Kids Gardening’ provides information and resources for children, parents, and teachers who are interesting in gardening. Check out their ‘classroom projects’ library and ‘thematic explorations’ section for inspired across curriculum connections and "how-to" articles.
Web: http://www.kidsgardening.com/
Outdoor Classrooms
The online home of “Outdoor Classrooms: a handbook for school gardens” with a feature that allows you to sneak peak the book contents and share your own school garden story.
Web: www.outdoorclassrooms.com.au
Seasonal Planting Guide
COMING SOON!
No Dig Gardening
How to construct a no-dig garden [PDF]
Composting
Composting for Kids [PDF]
Compost recipe COMING SOON!
Sustainability
Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative
An Australian Government partnership initiative that seeks to support schools and their communities to become sustainable by involving participants in a whole-of-school approach, to explore through real-life learning experiences, improvements in a school’s management of resources and facilities including energy, waste, water, biodiversity, landscape design, products and materials. A large number of supporting resources are available to download from the website.
Web: http://www.environment.gov.au/education/aussi/resources.html
Global Footprints
Features lessons and activities focused around literacy and numeracy assisting students in grades 3 – 6 to realise their role in creating a more sustainable future.
Web: http://www.globalfootprints.org/teachers/matrix.htm
Climate Change
An interactive learning resource assisting students to think through the implications of climate change, with student and teacher sections featuring extra links and activities.
Web: http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/ttcc/
Food Production Systems
“Where in the World Does Your Food Come From?” was developed by the LifeCycles Project Society and presents a series of lessons on the global food system and local alternatives. Students will embark on a journey from the realities of a global import-based food system to the positive alternatives found at the local level, exploring where their own food comes from, “travelling" to Cuba to learn about the revolution in food production there, and using their insight to envision a sustainable food system in their own region.
Where in the World [PDF]
Sustainability Wiz
Sustainability Wiz takes schools on a journey towards sustainability using tools, resources and classroom and whole-school programs to drive eco-change in the school and wider community.
Web: http://www.sustainabilitywiz.com/
School Water Audit Resources
A water conservation teaching resource and school water audit tools developed by Sydney Water.
Every Drop Counts in Schools [PDF] Water Audit – Guide [PDF] Water Audit – simple [PDF] Water Audit – complex [PDF]
Water: Learn it for life!
A comprehensive online water education program written by Queensland teachers. Targeting early and middle years, the program offers a whole of school approach to water education that complements the Queensland curriculum.
Web: http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/waterwise/education/index.html
Recycling at School
COMING SOON!
Eco’tude
Eco'tude measures your school's ecological footprint and assists students in planning for how they can reduce their schools impact on the environment.
Web: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/ecotude/
Futurescapes
Futurescapes is an interactive web resource that demonstrates how our day-to-day actions determine the sustainability of our lifestyles. It helps students to think about how their choices impact on the environment.
Web: http://www.futurescapes.com.au/
Home Energy Project
The Home Energy Project is a free teacher resource with interactive classroom activities, support materials and worksheets that shows students how easy it is to save energy and the environment.
Web: http://www.originenergy.com.au/1035/Home-Energy-Project
Ollie Saves the Planet
Join Ollie and his friends as they Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rethink their actions in the areas of Waste, Water, Energy, Air and Biodiversity to save the planet and move towards Sustainability. The site features a range of resources and lesson plans for educators to help incorporate environmental themes into the curriculum.
Web: http://www.olliesworld.com/
Green waste matters: a guide on green and organic waste management for schools
This curriculum guide is designed to introduce young Australians to best practice management of green and organic waste. While not an exhaustive or formal environmental education resource the guide is intended to raise the awareness of school age children to environmentally sound waste management practices.
Green Waste Matters [PDF]
Waste for a Sustainable Future
The Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative ACT has worked with many local organisations and teachers to provide schools with this curriculum resource which is aligned to the ACT Curriculum Framework P-10. It contains four units of work for early childhood - adolescence.
Waste for a Sustainable Future [PDF]
Conservation
Australian Biodiversity
An internet WebQuest facilitating an in depth exploration of issues related to Australia’s biodiversity.
Web: http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/sciweek/2001/biodiv.html
Biodiversity for Kids
Biodiversity for kids is a hands-on Science and Technology unit that is designed to help you teach about biodiversity in your local environment. Students will learn about biodiversity, animal and plant habitats, ecosystems, food chains and webs and biodiversity surveys.
Biodiversity for Kids Teachers Guide [PDF]
Creating a Frog Habitat
Frog Pond Instructions [PDF] A Frogs Life [PDF]
Creating a Koala Habitat
Trees for Koalas [PDF]
Bushland Regeneration
COMING SOON!
Flora for Fauna
Teachers can work with their students to develop plans for wildlife habitats in their school grounds. Students can easily create garden plans and then print and use them to guide school ground plantings.
Web: http://www.floraforfauna.com.au/schools/
Environmental Reporting Tool
Find out what's in your backyard, town or region - threatened species, important wetlands, heritage sites, pollutant emissions and more. Zoom in and draw area on screen, or choose your area by post code or local government area, then generate a detailed report.
Web: http://www.environment.gov.au/erin/ert/index.html
Science
Life Lab
Through its curricula and programs, Life Lab helps schools develop gardens where children can create "living laboratories" for the study of the natural world.
Web: http://www.lifelab.org/
Life Cycles - Butterfly
A web based unit of work developed by teacher and librarian Jackie Miers with background information, research and evaluation tasks and links to butterfly related fun and games activities.
Web: http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/butlifecycle/index.html
Life Cycles – Frog
COMING SOON!
Life Cycles - Plant
COMING SOON!
The Water Cycle
This “water and catchments” page is developed by teacher and librarian Jackie Miers and includes background information, links to animations and fact sheets, quizzes, games and a section for teachers.
Web: http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/water/cycle.htm
Food Webs
An interactive learning site featuring primary and secondary activities and teachers notes covering basic food chains and food webs, ecology, sorting and classification, night and day animals, fur-feathers-scales, adaptations, biodiversity, energy and nutrient cycles, endangered animals plus more.
Web: http://www.gould.org.au/foodwebs/
Schoolyard Ecology
This site offers a wealth of sample activities and investigations that have been field tested by participants in the Schoolyard Ecology project.
Web: http://www.ecostudies.org/syefest/appen1main.htm
National Geographic Wild World
This website takes National Geographic Society Wild World maps, distinguished by their shared ecological features, climate and plant and animal communities and makes them interactive, adding profiles and photos of more than 1,000 ecoregions, multimedia features, and more.
Web: http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/index.html
Reading and Writing
Inspirational ideas for ways to incorporate reading and writing activities into the school garden experience COMING SOON!
Maths
Gardening: A Maths Adventure COMING SOON!
Art
Inspirational ideas for ways to incorporate art into your school garden COMING SOON!
Indigenous Studies
Bush Tucker
Designed especially as a resource for students studying Bush Tucker as a science elective unit in Queensland Schools, this is a useful companion resource for implementing a bush tucker garden at school.
Web: http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/bushtucker/index.html
Australian Native Plants
An in depth internet WebQuest with the overall task being to design a garden for your school that illustrates the varied uses of native plants by Australian Aborigines.
Web: http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/quests/nativeplants.html
Feeding your Mob
The feeding your mob recipe booklet is based on the Fruit and Vegetable Cookbook developed by the former Mid North Coast Aboriginal Partnership. It contains recipes and suggestions for the use of bush tucker.
Feeding your Mob [PDF]
Dust Echoes
Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law. Includes study guides and a range of classroom activities and resources for teachers.
Web: http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/
Permaculture
Permaculture Principles
This site explores the 'essence of permaculture' in a simple and clear way, expanding on the work of co-originator of the permaculture concept, David Holmgren.
Web: http://www.permacultureprinciples.com/index.php
Health & Wellbeing
Active-Ate
An online program developed by the Queensland Government to promote nutrition and physical activity amongst Australian school children. Activities for each phase of learning have been developed and are designed to assist teachers enhance the health and wellbeing of students.
Web: http://education.qld.gov.au/schools/healthy/active-ate/index.html
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