A great literacy webquest for the text - Holes

Match the animal to their country of origin

Great Aussie webquest about the ocean ecosystem - suitable for level 3 and level 4

Fantastic Australian site about marine ecosystems - kid friendly language suitable for individual or group research.

Read some classic fairytales that have been re-told from a different perspective e.g. from the perspecitive of the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood

A quick interactive activity for kids to test their knowledge about the levels in a food chain.

Everything you need to know about food chains and food webs in easy to understand format and language. Many links to IWB activities

FANTASTIC SITE for creating your own food web using IE Describes the difference between food chains and food webs. Scroll to part 2 at the bottom of the page and click on the "creating a possible food web" hyperlink

Great information about the animals and plants that live in differnt biomes and where these biomes are found on the planet.

Brain pop - An animated cartoon about how an ecosystem survives and depends on each organisms in it for energy.

A primary level webquest relating to ecosystems and food chains.

Click on the cross-section of the pond to find out more about the animals and plants that live there and how they interact

Useful, kid-friendly information about biomes and eco-systems and the plants and animals that inhabit them.

Fantastic website with lots of information about biomes and ecosystems

Students work on practical problems in which the complexity of computations extends to include addition and subtraction of three-digit numbers, multiplication by single digits, and division by a single-digit number using arrays.

Add or subtract a given number to achieve the "wishball" number in 20 turns.

Help to write articles for a local newspaper. Investigate community attitudes to a development planned for a local park. Look at development plans for the site. Interpret graphs showing results of a public opinion poll. In this scenario, the community is in favour of the proposed development. This learning object is one in a series of five objects.\n\nThe purpose of this learning object is for:\n\nStudents to decode a range of texts which state a position on the same topic. \nStudents to construct literal and inferential meaning from exposition texts. \nStudents to consider the position taken by a range of texts on the same topic. \nStudents to identify how textual choices contribute to how texts convey a point of view. \nStudents to identify bias and author's viewpoint in texts. \nStudents to use logical reasoning to match an author with a particular text.\

Look at long-term effects of development at a beach resort. Explore effects on fish stocks, coral cover, wildlife, sedimentation and coastal erosion. Consider social and economic impacts. Compare proposals to plant mangroves, cocos palms or build a sea wall. Try to maximise economic performance, environmental protection and community satisfaction. Recommend a solution and look at the long-term outcomes. This learning object is one in a series of five objects. The purpose of this learning object is for: Students to compare the merits of environmental mangement solutions. Students to explore social, economic and environmental issues in a coastal management setting. Look at long-term effects of development at a beach resort. Explore effects on fish stocks, coral cover, wildlife, sedimentation and coastal erosion. Consider social and economic impacts. Compare proposals to plant mangroves, cocos palms or build a sea wall. Try to maximise economic performance, environmental protection and community satisfaction. Recommend a solution and look at the long-term outcomes. This learning object is one in a series of five objects. The purpose of this learning object is for: Students to compare the merits of environmental mangement solutions. Students to explore social, economic and environmental issues in a coastal management setting.

Build your own food webs 1. Australian Grasslands 2. African Grasslands 3. Antarctic 4. Marine

Use the information in the "story plant" to create the beginning to a story. Students can print off their story to complete themselves.