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The Australian Education for Sustainability Alliance is comprised of organisations from the education, union, youth and environment sectors that want a higher prioritisation of sustainability in the education system. We are achieving this by advocating and lobbying for best practice education for sustainability policy to fulfil our vision of a sustainable Australia.

The purpose of this website is to provide a summary overview of the First World War. A word of caution however; this is by no means an academic website. It's authored as spare time permits and is geared towards a general rather than scholarly readership. Given this, it is not recommended that this site be used for academic reference purposes for school or university papers. This does not so much indicate a concerning lack of authorial confidence in the accuracy of site content as an acknowledgement that material on the site has not been submitted for formal peer review.

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Dr. Gary Crew began writing fiction in 1985. Because of his teaching back ground and his own teenage children, he entered the Teenage Fiction or Young Adult genre and has subsequently published 12 novels in that field. He has twice been awarded the Children's Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year for Older Readers [Strange Objects in 1991 and Angel's Gate in 1993].

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When environmental and sustainability education is incorporated into the school curriculum, students: learn about the environment develop skills to investigate and solve issues in the environment acquire attitudes of care and concern for the environment adopt behaviours and practices which protect the environment, and understand the principles of ecologically sustainable development

This page lists climate change solutions and global warming remedies that are especially important for healthcare and other professionals to understand, adopt and promote.

Search through the entire ancient history timeline. Specify between which dates you want to search, and what keywords you are looking for.

Good site for main well known periods of history.

This is the class site for our science class

complete poem for analysis

Students could create fun posters like this for English class.

The Slowman home, the same one-level cinderblock structure his family had lived in for nearly a half-century, was contaminated with potentially dangerous levels of uranium from the days of the cold war, when hundreds of uranium mines dotted the vast tribal land known as the Navajo Nation.

"Some Playthings," by the distinguished John Hollander, a poet for whom serious and light verse, the formal and the playful, flow forth in equal measure.

The future looks precarious with present conditions on planet Earth unprecedented. Our survival as a species requires that sustainability, in all its dimensions (environmental, social, economic, governance and personal), becomes a priority in all areas of human endeavour.