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    A–Z Digital Technologies vocabulary F–6

    • TLF-IDA002201

    This PDF assists teachers in thinking about when and how to introduce Digital Technologies discipline-specific vocabulary.

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    CanUHanyu: play and practise Chinese

    • TLF-IDM014116

    CanUHanyu is a suite of interactive games based on a dictionary of 1500 Chinese words and expressions. Two game speeds encourage speed recognition of characters as well as accuracy. Users can choose to play one of the six levels with up to three topics from a list of topics that include 'My study set' and 'Recently incorrect'. ...

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    Syllabus bites: types of sentences

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    A web page resource with information, teacher guides and activities on types of sentences to support the Australian Curriculum in English K–10. It has detailed activities, links to resources and quizzes.

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    Unit for Year 3 to 4 Butterflies: Engaging with nature

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    This unit of work engages students in preparing butterfly gardens in their schoolgrounds. It explores scientific entomology, features of caterpillars and butterflies, the lifecycle of butterflies, survival requirements, and the characteristics of butterfly gardens. The unit includes worksheets, assessment ideas, pictures, ...

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    Trade and Investment at a Glance

    • TLF-IDM025125

    Using an illustrated report from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, this Teacher guide provides ten learning sequences that engage students in the analysis and interpretation of data about Australian imports and exports. Students: identify Australia's major exports and imports; investigate international trade ...

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    Google translate: app for Android

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    This is a translating tool used to translate words from a range of languages, including Chinese to English and English to Chinese, and Italian to English and English to Italian. Translated words are provided with a dictionary definition and an option to hear the word in the selected language. This resource tracks the history ...

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    Animal survivor

    • TLF-IDM025824

    This resource provides a scaffold for students to analyse the features of a Queensland animal and relate them to its survival success. Students then conduct the animal design challenge: Engineering new features for their animal to increase its chance of survival and future success. Students also make predictions about how ...

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    Persuasive Language

    • TLF-IDM019103

    This PDF provides a valuable reference guide and teaching and learning resource for students and teachers on the purpose, features and influence of written and visual persuasive texts. The text provides the reader with information on the techniques employed in creating persuasive texts including appealing to emotions through ...

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    Gateway to Chinese

    • TLF-IDM013196

    This website is a collection of resources that practise the skills of pronunciation, listening, reading, grammar and vocabulary for beginning Chinese language learners. The linked resources provide both characters and Pinyin for reading and are accompanied with audio to listen to the Chinese as well. This resource is part ...

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    DIY pH Indicator

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    This resource contains lessons plans containing instructions and teachers 'notes for an activity based on the natural pH indicator present in red cabbage leaves. It can be extracted following these explicit and clear directions included for this activity. This indicator solution changes colour from purple to bright pink ...

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    Circuit Diagrams

    • TLF-IDM016328

    Students use this resource consisting of three slides with diagrams, written explanation and voice-over to understand how to draw simple circuits and the symbols used to represent them. There is a two-question quiz and a summary slide.

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    Radical hunt: island hunt [Japanese]

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    Search an island for clues to find a rare bird. Find kanji hidden near the things they represent. Notice the kanji are compound kanji that share a common radical. Discover the related meanings of each set of kanji. Identify the general pattern that the meaning of a radical will contribute to the meaning of a compound kanji. ...

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    Kanji wheel of discovery 2

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    Solve word puzzles in a quiz show. Choose a key kanji such as 同, 学 or 明. Then spin the wheel to make new compound words using your key kanji. Use the meanings of the individual kanji to work out the meaning of each compound word and score points. Solve the meaning of enough compound words to win a prize. Review all the ...

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    Principals as Literacy Leaders Project

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    This teacher resource describes the Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) professional learning strategy aimed at strengthening the capability of school principals to bring about improvement in the reading abilities of students in low socioeconomic status and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The resource ...

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    Making the links: literacy across learning areas in secondary school settings

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    This teacher resource describes a collaborative learning strategy sponsored by the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia to improve the ways literacy across the curriculum is perceived and taught. The strategy was implemented in up to nine schools and involved six mentor teachers, 70 teachers and 600 students. ...

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    Heywire: Sussing out the similes in a footy game

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    If you've ever tried to describe an experience to a friend and said, 'It was just like', you were using a simile. Similes and their close pals metaphors are figures of speech that writers of all sorts of texts use. As you listen to this Heywire audio story, explore Taylor Smith's use of them in his recount of a Saturday ...

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    For the Juniors: Exploring under the sea

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    Dive into the busy and colourful world of the coral reef. Explore some of the many animals that live in the shallow waters of the reef. See how they catch food and make their homes there.

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    Feathers, Fur and Fins: Observing a kookaburra

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    Watch a wild kookaburra being fed by hand. Don Spencer handles an injured kookaburra that is being nursed to health. It will be set free once it is well again. See where kookaburras make their homes. Listen to their laughing call.

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    Can We Help?: Conquest: the process of language change

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    When the Normans conquered England in 1066, they brought a lot more than fancy clothes and castles; they also brought the French language. Discover the impact that this momentous event continues to have today.

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    Feathers, Fur and Fins: Observing a swan

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    Join Don Spencer as he observes (looks carefully at) a black swan. Discover a surprise under this bird's black outer feathers. Watch how differently the swan moves on land and in water.

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