This resource explores Earth's resources.
It provides hands-on activities with teacher support materials to support the younger students in learning about resources, water, soil, clean air, and minerals. It has a focus on sustainability and recycling resources.
The package also integrates other subject areas, including—mathematics, drama, geography and history.
New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S3U02 (Year 3), AC9S4U02 (Year 4)
This online resource supports the teaching of the Year 1 Earth and space science.
The resource is a teaching package that provides hands-on activities with teacher support materials to support the Year 1 Earth and space science components of the Australian Curriculum.
The activities are organised into four topics:
This online resource covers Year 7 Earth and space science.
The resource is an inquiry-based learning sequence that includes: hands-on activities, digital interactives, animations and videos.
The resource covers renewable and non-renewable resources, recycling, sustainability and ecological footprint, astronomy, gravity, orbits, weight and mass, telescopes and rockets.
Students also learn how to develop justifiable claims based on evidence and assess the likely impacts of new technologies.
This is a colour image of an astronaut on a space walk.
This awe-inspiring image of an astronaut using a jetpack against a background of the Earth could be used to provoke student thinking (e.g., "Do you think the photographed part of the Earth is in day or night? Explain.").
