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Outdoor Learning through the Seasons: An Essential Guide for the Early Years
US title, so information relating to seasons is from a northern hemisphere perspective. This book provides guidance on how we can encourage young children to engage with the natural world throughout the year. Using the four seasons as a framework, it aims to help all adults to feel confident about taking children outside everyday and developing their awareness of the world around them, and suggests a wide range of experiences and looks at the various ways in which children can interact with the environment to further their learning and development.
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The Empowered Educator
My Story
Hi, I'm Jode….Welcome!
I work with children and parents and until recently was running my own family day care business here in Australia. I also blog, create digital resources, workshops and online training courses for early childhood educators who love their profession but might be struggling with time management, feeling uninspired in their role and trying to complete all the paperwork and regulation requirements expected.
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.
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
Books in the Library
The Boy Who Lost His Bumble
The boy in this debut picture book is fascinated by the bees in his garden, and is puzzled and saddened when they disappear one rainy day. What can have caused them to leave, and is there anything he can do to get his bumble back? Nothing he tries is successful, but things start to look a little brighter with the arrival of Spring. A gentle, quirky introduction to the cycles of nature, with an important and highly topical message about the value of bees to our world.
Young Children and the Environment by Julie M. Davis (Editor)
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, their families and the wider community to tackle the contemporary issue of sustainable living.
Publication Date: 2014
Books and Teacher Notes
Big Fella Rain
Big Fella Rain is a celebration of northern Australia as animals, birds, trees and a parched earth await the first rain. It is almost as if country stands still as the sparse yet evocative text pays homage to the transition from dry season to wet season in a country that is like no other place in the world.
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. This powerful children's parable/cautionary tale on the destruction and havoc that mining causes to the land and to community is both touching and hard-hitting.
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 childrens story that gently introduces the serious plight of one of Australias most endangered species. Jet the corroboree frog is happily taking care of the tadpole ponds when the water starts to dry up and his family's eggs are threatened.
The Boy Who Lost His Bumble
The boy in this debut picture book is fascinated by the bees in his garden, and is puzzled and saddened when they disappear one rainy day. What can have caused them to leave, and is there anything he can do to get his bumble back? Nothing he tries is successful, but things start to look a little brighter with the arrival of Spring. A gentle, 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
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 by
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, their families and the wider community to tackle the contemporary issue of sustainable living.
Benny Bungarra's Big Bush Clean-up
Benny Bungarra comes to the rescue when his friends are in danger from rubbish left by humans.
Big Fella Rain
Big Fella Rain is a celebration of northern Australia as animals, birds, trees and a parched earth await the first rain. It is almost as if country stands still as the sparse yet evocative text pays homage to the transition from dry season to wet season in a country that is like no other place in the world.
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. This powerful children's parable/cautionary tale on the destruction and havoc that mining causes to the land and to community is both touching and hard-hitting.
The Little Corroboree Frog
The Little Corroborree Frog is a wonderful childrens story that gently introduces the serious plight of one of Australias most endangered species. Jet the corroboree frog is happily taking care of the tadpole ponds when the water starts to dry up and his family's eggs are threatened.