Guides: Education Support and Childcare: Environmental Responsibility

eBooks

Outdoor Learning through the Seasons: An Essential Guide for the Early Years This book provides guidance on how we can encourage young children to engage with the natural world throughout the year.

The Empowered Educator Simpler planning strategies & creative play ideas for today's Early Childhood Professional.
Teaching Children to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle This article will provide you with strategies on promoting sustainable education for educators and children and ideas on incorporating sustainable practices within the service.

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.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures SBS Learn Home - teacher resources on various subjects.
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.
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

The Boy Who Lost His Bumble (2014) This book is a quirky introduction to the cycles of nature, with an important and highly topical message about the value of bees to our world.
Looking after Country with Fire : Aboriginal Burning Knowledge with Uncle Kuu (2022) This is a powerful and timely story of understanding Australia's ecosystems through Indigenous fire management, and a respectful way forward for future generations to help manage our landscapes.
Young Children and the Environment (2015) This second edition of Young Children and the Environment is a practical resource that illustrates the difference that early childhood educators can make by working with children.

Benny Bungarra's Big Bush Clean-up Benny Bungarra comes to the rescue when his friends are in danger from rubbish left by humans.

Teacher Notes - Benny Bungarra's Big Bush Clean-up Teacher resources from Magabala Books are free and provide comprehensive and practical guidelines to assist teachers to use Indigenous books in the classroom.

Big Fella Rain Big Fella Rain is a celebration of northern Australia as animals, birds, trees and a parched earth await the first rain.

Teacher Notes - Big Fella Rain From Magabala Books - our teacher resources are free and provide comprehensive and practical guidelines to assist teachers to use Indigenous books in the classroom.

Dingo's Tree This is the story of Dingo, Wombat, Crow and their friends as they struggle to exist alongside the devastation of mining that is tearing up their beautiful homeland.

Teacher Notes - Dingo's Tree Teacher resources from Magabala Books are free and provide comprehensive and practical guidelines to assist teachers to use Indigenous books in the classroom.

The Little Corroboree Frog The Little Corroborree Frog is a wonderful children's story that gently introduces the serious plight of one of Australia's most endangered species.

Teacher Notes - The Little Corroboree Frog Teacher resources from Magabala Books are free and provide comprehensive and practical guidelines to assist teachers to use Indigenous books in the classroom.

How the Miyawaki method of creating tiny forests could be the solution to Perth's tree canopy issues In short:Pocket forests are popping up around the country in spaces as small as a car parking spot, a tennis court or a street verge.