Resources

Sustainability teaching resources

Check out the new Sustainability section of the Department of Education's curriculum website to learn about Environmental and Zoo Education Centres (EZEC) and great sustainability resources, policy and information.

• Sustainability cross-curriculum priority

• Sustainability at school | NSW Environment & Heritage

• Getting started with sustainability in schools

• Sustainability hub - kids videos about sustainability

• Cool Australia - learn for life

• Education - Earth Day lessons - Apple

• ABC splash

• Adrift

• Worm Farm holiday treat (PDF 222KB)

Sustainability action

• TerraCycle

• Take 3

• Eco-schools Australia

• Earth hour Australia

• Youth eco summit (YES)

• Nude food day (waste-free lunches)

• Australian Citizen Science Association » The Australian guide to running a BioBlitz

Animals

• Insects - Australian Museum

• Bugwise - Australian Museum

• Animals - Australian Museum

• BirdLife Australia

Citizen Science 

• Australian Citizen science association

• School of ants Australia

• ClimateWatch

• Royal Botanic Garden - hollows as homes

• Streamwatch - Australian Museum

• Feather map of Australia project | ANSTO Feather map

• ANSTO plastics project

• Help us understand Sydney's Cockatoos - Australian Museum

• Education | project Noah

• BIRDS in BACKYARDS

• BDRS | home

• Schools info - Tangaroa Blue Foundation

Aboriginal education

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures cross-curriculum priority

• Dharawal resources from Coomaditchie United Aboriginal Corporation

• Murni Dhungang Jirrar - living in the Illawarra (great fact sheets on Dharawal plant and animal resources)

• Illawarra Aboriginal history poster (includes Dharawal Dreamtime Story)

• Indigenous weather knowledge

• Yulunga: full resource : participating in sport : Australian sports commission

• 8ways wikispace

• ABC Online Indigenous - interactive map

• Indigenous Australia - learning resources - Australian Museum

• MGoals | goals for living and learning

• First footprints

Geography

• NSW Department of Education geography programming

• HSIE team resources for implementing the NSW syllabuses for the Australian curriculum

• Geographical toolkit for schools

• Climate change: vital signs of the planet: images-of-change

• CoastAdapt

Mapping

• Tutorial: Google my maps (PDF 2157KB)

• Google Earth timelapse

• State Library of NSW maps collection

• Google Mymaps

• SIX maps

• Scribble maps

• National Geographic mapmaker interactive