Clip description Tom E Lewis introduces the concept of five seasons over footage of an overflowing Rose River - the land inundated with water, followed by a montage of a dry riverbed. Lewis describes the wet season over images of Indigenous men hunting birds, fish and a turtle.

Indigenous Australians have long held their own seasonal calendars based on the local sequence of natural events. To the right is a map of Australia with hyperlinks to the corresponding seasonal calendars for given regions.

This document will assist teachers with a deeper understanding /strategy for embedding the cross curriculum priorities into your planning documents. This tool presents nine statements for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective, eight statements for Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia and nine statements for Sustainability to assist with organisation of ideas.

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.

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

Everybody living in a cyclone-prone area should have a household emergency plan, which includes evacuation and shelter considerations. Residents should plan and prepare to shelter in a secure place either at home or with family and friends.

Prepare the following items and keep them in a sturdy, easily transported bag or box....

Evacuation Advice: An evacuation order for a cyclone is only issued if lives may be at risk from a storm tide surge...

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.

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...

Two of North America's most interesting geographical features are the Great Plains and the Mississippi River System; both impressive in so many ways...

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

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.

Catholic educators have a critical role to play in promoting the Church's call to "ecological conversion" which finds its ground in our faith. We know God as Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, revealed to us in the Scriptures and finally through His Son. From Him all wisdom and holiness flows. Not long before he died, Pope John Paul II reminded us, that we are to take up our "ecological vocations, which in our time has become more urgent than ever."

Series of links directing you to a wide variety of natural resources in Australia.

Australia has over 500 national parks. Over 28 million hectares of land is designated as national parkland, accounting for almost four per cent of Australia's land areas. In addition, a further six per cent of Australia is protected and includes state forests, nature parks and conservation reserves.

Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Strength Dignity Pride, from exhibition Sacred Country Unwrapped, 2007. Courtesy of Collector Gallery Artspace and Bookshop. Australia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. These events cause great financial hardship for individuals and communities, and can result in loss of life, which has become part of Australian folklore.

A conceptual framework based on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' unique sense of Identity has been developed as a structural tool for the embedding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures within the Australian curriculum. This sense of Identity is approached through the interconnected aspects of Country/Place, People and Culture.