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Students use the information provided in the learning object to gather facts and opinions from a range of community members. They will look at the relationship between energy options, global warming and climate change and will consider issues of ecological sustainability, economic development, social responsibility, lifestyle and visual impact. Search Scootle to access digital resource using name or digital resource code.

This photograph encourages students to explore how non-government organisations can influence communities and create social identity. The Clean Up the Kimberley Schools Day aims to teach future generations how to manage and protect the environment for a sustainable future. While focusing on waste, the schools day also involves education about wider ecological issues such as water quality, conservation and climate change. Search Scootle to access digital resource using name or digital resource code.

This resource provides a vehicle for discussing the importance of sharing traditional knowledge and values. Students can consider the importance of this knowledge in the forming of identity. They can discuss how groups maintain their traditional values and traditions as well as those of modern Australia. Search Scootle to access digital resource using name or digital resource code.

"Build-A-Map is a map building platform powered by Google Maps"

Traditional symbols are an essential part of much contemporary Aboriginal art. Our online galleries offer a wide range of art works using traditional and contemporary imagery and symbols. Aboriginal peoples have long artistic traditions within which they use conventional designs and symbols. Some of these symbols represent the weather.

Introduction We are the first people of our lands. These are some of our stories from where we have lived so long. We welcome you to know about us, about our culture, this way. 12 Canoes This website is built for us, for everyone.

The European continent, bordered by numerous bodies of water, is separated from Asia by Russia's Ural Mountains and by the Caspian and Black Seas. It is separated from Africa by the Mediterranean Sea...

National Geographic website - A guide to North America with articles, photos, facts, videos, and news from National Geographic.

For many thousands of years, fire management has played a critical role in the lives of Central Australia's Aboriginal people. For Aboriginal people there were and are many uses for fire that serve physical, social, cultural, and spiritual, as well as ecological, needs.

ABC Website: " I still think if we can focus on rebuilding in a sustainable way we can get our numbers back to our pre-fire numbers and we possibly look at more people living in ...." Inspiring stories and reflections from the communities who continue to reflect on the impact of Black Saturday on their lives and the towns in which they live.

Preventative actions will help ensure you're prepared year-round in the event of a natural disaster. Focus Areas: Around your home Around your property Health and Safety Before a cyclone During a cyclone After a cyclone

This clip chosen to be G Clip description Rain falls heavily, the streets of the community are quiet, and Moses sits drinking tea on the porch of a house in the community of Numbulwar, Wandu, where he is from, has been flooded in.

Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, telling stories of love, loyalty, duty to country and aboriginal custom and law.

This app for both Android and Apple has potential as a virtual field trip of the Grampians. Free. 

A fabulous app that will only work if you actually move the iPad around physically. Could be a great starter for primary school or lower secondary students. 

Journalists, teachers, bloggers and storytellers (to name a few) use Map Tales to chronicle news events, scrapbook holidays, describe walks, plan campaigns, illustrate literature, recount journeys, and bring events to life.

Love this, I think this might be useful for my yr 9 students. They are tracking the production, of a product from the thought to the shelf in a globalisation unit and plotting the locations onto Google Maps at the moment. I think this could be used for the same purpose. I like giving options to the students.

We learn so much through stories that are told by those who have experienced the world and are connected to the environment in which they live. We have finally begun in Australia to ask our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to share their insights and knowledge about our rivers, so that we can learn how to interpret and link science to practice and experiential understanding.

Year 8 Physical Geography - Geomorphology. Cross section of Uluru and Kata Tjuta.