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Education - Return to 1616 Ecological Restoration Project

This is a comprehensive education package based on of the world's most exciting ecological restoration projects that is happening right now in Western Australia! It features interactive virtual tours, 3D skulls, videos, real-action inquiry projects, research projects, native animal educational card games and activities, ...

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Fractions: Design your own Flag - Calculate

This activity allows students to explore the concept of fractions with a focus on quarters. Adaptions can be made by changing the fraction. We want students to discover that the same fraction can look different but still have the same quantity/ amount.

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Today's Number - Calculate

This is an open task as it can cater for the needs of many students and can be used over and over to build confidence in representing numbers in different ways. In this activity students have an opportunity to engage with a variety of number ranges and are able to demonstrate their understandings of those numbers in many ways.

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Coin Toss - Calculate

The focus of this activity is for students to conduct an experiment that involves chance.They will use the information they gather to represent their findings.

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Addition and Subtraction - Calculate

This game focuses on addition, subtraction and estimation. It can be played many times as the totals will often be different and the focus of the mathematics can change. There is a video included to help with how to play the game.

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Next Ten - Calculate

This activity challenges students to continue a number sequence from any starting point. Using counters or other physical materials to create the number sequence prior to recording may help students, as they will be able to see what the number pattern looks like.

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Length Year 2 - Calculate

The focus of this activity is to find out what students know and understand about length. By Year 2 students need to begin to move beyond a familiar definition of length and must begin to see the importance of using uniform units.

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Space Race Game (Introducing Algorithmic Thinking) - Calculate

Space Race is a simple board game that teachers can use to introduce the concept of algorithmic sequencing to students. The teaching points provided with the game assist teachers to introduce the use of an algorithm (a simple set of mathematical instructions) to describe the trajectory of an object across a grid plane from ...

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Duck in a Bucket - Calculate

In this game for pairs or teams, students practise addition and subtraction of small numbers, using multiple strategies.

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Domino Bingo - Calculate

In this game, students add single digit numbers and subitise domino dot patterns.

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'Dog In, Cat Out' - Time Unit - Calculate

Using the Australian children's book 'Dog In, Cat Out' (written by Gillian Rubinstein and illustrated by Ann James) the lesson sequences and activities in this unit are a way to help children from Foundation to Grade 2 level gain an understanding of the concept of time, its measurement and its numeration.

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Salute - Calculate

This game gives students opportunities to practise addition and subtraction strategies and develop algebraic thinking by finding unknown values in additive equations.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 8

This sample multi-age unit explores the big idea 'what needs to be measured determines the unit of measurement'.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 7

This sample multi-age unit explores the big idea 'data helps describe and wonder about the world'.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 5

New shapes can be made by joining (combining) or partitioning (breaking apart) existing shapes – exploring two-dimensional shapes' attributes and features.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 3

What needs to be measured determines the unit of measurement– this unit introduces students to measurement using direct and indirect comparison.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 10

This unit develops understanding and skills of position and chance.

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Algorithms: storytelling sequence

In this lesson, students will explore a story by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author that has a sequence that can be followed. Students will sequence the main elements or steps in the story in their own way and share with peers.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 18

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of data.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 19

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills with two-dimensional (2D) shapes, three-dimensional (3D) objects and volume.