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Curriculum
Australian Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority
The Australian Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority works with all governments to provide guidance, resources and services to support the sector to improve outcomes for children.
Educators - My Time, Our Place
My Time, Our Place is a guide for educators written to support the professional activities of those working in school-age care.
Guide to the National Quality Framework
The Guide to the National Quality Framework (NQF) is designed to help education and care providers, educators and authorised officers understand and apply the requirements of the NQF.
Primary Connections
Australian Curriculum-aligned primary science teaching and learning resources. Flexible and adaptable to any classroom setting. Online, downloadable and free.
School Curriculum and Standards Authority
The School Curriculum and Standards Authority is responsible for Kindergarten to Year 12 curriculum, assessment, standards and reporting for all Western Australian schools.
State Library of Western Australia - Classroom Resources
The following resources have been created using the primary sources materials from the State Library’s collections and aim to assist teachers in delivering the curriculum.
Understanding MTOP (My Time, Our Place)
The My Time Our Place Framework provides broad direction for school age care educators in settings to facilitate children’s play, leisure and learning.
Western Australian Curriculum
The Pre-primary to Year 10 Western Australian curriculum provides a coherent and comprehensive set of prescribed content and achievement standards.
Websites
ABC Education
Resources for all subjects/topics, games, teacher news, BTN &TV guide.
After School 101
Resources for after school program directors and educators -- Resources offer best practices from experienced professionals in the field and research-supported strategies for getting the most out of your after school program.
Aussie Childcare Network
Website iwth news, articles, activities, printables and templates
Scootle
Scootle - a national repository that provides Australian schools with digital resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum.
Supporting Your Work With Children and Young People
Resources on supporting children and young people at risk.
Teaching Resources (PETAA)
Quality online learning resources to support your learning environment.
The Tweeting Galah - Lesson Plans
5 Easy Lesson Ideas for Introducing Digital Citizenship into your Classroom.
WA Curriculum
The Western Australian Curriculum and Assessment Outline lays out the Kindergarten to Year 10 curriculum for all children in Western Australia. It provides teachers and supporting staff with information to help plan and assess learning programs, and report those outcomes.
School Curriculum and Standards Authority
The School Curriculum and Standards Authority is responsible for Kindergarten to Year 12 curriculum, assessment, standards and reporting for all Western Australian schools.
Books in the Library
Technologies for Children (2016)
Technologies for Children presents a comprehensive array of contextual examples for teaching design and technology to children from birth to twelve years.
Lesson Plans Aboriginal Culture
ABC TV
Looking for ways to extend the classroom viewing experience? Click on the programs listed, ideas for classroom activities, or background on the subject matter covered in the programs.
Australian Curriculum Lessons
This series of lesson plans will allow students to explore and analyse traditional Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories. Upon completion of the program, students will write their own Dreamtime story.
Celebrate NAIDOC: Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
This NAIDOC Week teacher resource is structured around the 2022 theme of ‘Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!’.
Creative Spirits
Teacher resources to match the Australian cross-curriculum priorities. A cheat sheet helping teachers plan lessons for the Australian curriculum.
Indigenous Knowledge Resources for Australian School Curricula Project
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Curricula Project aims to empower all teachers to integrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures in their teaching using these curriculum resources that incorporate Indigenous knowledge.
Noongar Knowledge
This Education resource assists teachers by providing links between Kaartdijin Noongar website and the Australian Curriculum. There are resources for History, English and Geography from Pre-Primary to Year 10
Teach Starter Resources
Download free primary / elementary school teaching resources to use in the classroom. Free teaching resources include posters, worksheets, classroom games, activities, lesson plans and more.
Environment / Sustainability
Getting Started With Sustainability in Schools
Over 500 classroom ready resources available. Use the search options to find great resources that are ready-to-go, linked to the Australian Curriculum and Sustainability Organising Ideas.
Nature Play
Child-led play in the outdoors (nature play) enriches childhood with movement, with imagination, with friendship, and with all the sensory wonder that nature brings.
School of Nature and Climate
Early learning activities based on nature connection and wellbeing, inspired by values at CERES: “helping people fall in love with the Earth, again."
SBS Learn Home - Sustainability
From SBS Learn Home - teacher resources on sustainability.
Wild Time Learning
Activities and ideas for younger and older kids.
EYLF and NQS Without Tears 3rd Edition : A Step-By-step Guide (2019)
This essential book has been written to reassure educators that meeting the requirements of the National Quality Framework is indeed achievable.
Theories into Practice : Understanding and Rethinking Our Work with Young Children and the EYLF (2015)
Theories into Practice introduces and explores each of the five major groups of theories described in the EYLF that inform practice in the early childhood field.
The Big Book of Glues, Brews, and Goos (2015)
The book contains recommendations for linking projects to curriculum to help make each activity relevant and educational.
Frameworks for learning & development (2021)
Frameworks for Learning and Development supports training and delivery of the Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care.
Programming with the Early Years Learning Framework (2015)
This book provides educators with knowledge and clarification of programming while exploring how to link this with the EYLF.
Technologies for Children (2016)
Technologies for Children presents a comprehensive array of contextual examples for teaching design and technology to children from birth to twelve years.
Infants, Toddlers and Caregivers:Curriculum Relationship (2018)
Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers is an ideal introduction to care and education in the first three years of life, featuring a respectful approach.