Australian & Aboriginal Reviews

Australian and Aboriginal Web Site Reviews

Subject: Australian & Aboriginal     ID: 20
Title: Australian Coastal Atlas
Description: This coastal Atlas lets you view layers of information about the Australian coast. Not only can you print off your customised map, but you can also investigate water quality, climate, fisheries and much more. The site would provide an excellent a vehicle to compare and contrast coastal regions in different climates such arid, temperate and tropical. This should not be limited to only Australian students.
Rating: *****
Level: ideal for year levels 3-10   On the web

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Subject: Australian & Aboriginal     ID: 44
Title: Documenting a Democracy   
Description: Australia has been settled by Europeans for just over 200 years.  This is an excellent collection of archived, historical material that provided the founding documents which gave birth to a democratic Australia.  You can follow the timeline and see how the governmental system evolved; you can explore the history of the Australian Constitution; you can follow through on themes as well as search the extensive document library.
Rating: *****
Level: Ideal for all year levels    On the web

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Subject: Australian & Aboriginal     ID: 50
Title: First Nations
Description: This coastal Atlas lets you view layers of information about the Australian coast. Not only can you print off your customised map, but you can also investigate water quality, climate, fisheries and much more. The site would provide an excellent a vehicle to compare and contrast coastal regions in different climates such arid, temperate and tropical. This should not be limited to only Australian students.
Rating: *****
Level: Ideal for year levels 3-10   On the web

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Subject: Australian & Aboriginal     ID: 59
Title: Lore of the Land
Description: The people that now inhabit the country are struggling to come to terms with Australia's history and its culture! This is a wonderful site to explore, attempt to understand and reflect on the relationship between the people and the country. It is a site based on the hope and wonder of this. This is a great site for students to investigate and to write a brief, one sentence, statement on what the Australian culture actually is/means.
Rating: *****
Level: ideal for year levels 6-12   On the web

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Subject: Australian & Aboriginal     ID: 90
Title: Victorian Education Channel
Description: This is an immensely comprehensive site with tens of thousands of documents all referenced to the school curriculum. It is easily searched, as long as you are precise would your search field and you are clear about what it is that you want. You will find here research documents looking at teaching pedagogy as well as content, lesson plans, units of work, Webquest's, guides on using technology in the classroom and much more.
Rating: *****
Level: ideal for all levels   On the web

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Subject: Australian & Aboriginal     ID: 2
Title: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Commission
Description: This government agency is the major player in representing indigenous cultures of Australian. The site includes the programmes activities and the issues that affect this people group. There is information on the cultures of a wide variety of tribal groups. As well, there is a collection of the audio clips including sounds, music and news that are of interest when studying this culture.
Rating: ****
Level: ideal for year levels 3-12   On the web

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Subject: Australian & Aboriginal     ID: 9
Title: Ahoy There Kids in Boats.
Description: Ahoy There Kids in Boats! An excellent site here dealing with all aspects of water and boating safety. Produced by the NZ & Australian Safe Boating Education Group this is an excellent set of resources arranged around themes including Time & Tide; Water Everywhere; Boats : Now & Then; In the Swim and the Boat race Game. There are also teacher notes and support information.
Rating: ****
Level: Ideal for all year levels   On the web

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Subject: Australian & Aboriginal     ID: 21
Title: Australian Council for Computers in Education
Description: There are numerous resources based at this site that would be invaluable for teachers who are using technologies in the classroom. As well as policies on a number of issues, there are also some excellent position papers. Of interest also is the toolbox that is made available to members, as well as information on upcoming conferences.
Rating: ****
Level: ideal for teachers   On the web

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Subject: Australian & Aboriginal     ID: 25
Title: Australian Geographic
Description: This is a great online magazine (e-zine) featuring the geography, flora and fauna of Australia. Renowned for its excellent photography and easy to read style of writing this journal makes an excellent resource for all levels of the school. Once again we encourage teachers to take some of the photographs (with the permission of the site), and print them on an A3 printer, laminate them and use them as unit starters of for encouraging language work associated with that unit of study.
Rating: ****
Level: ideal for all levels   On the web

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Subject: Australian & Aboriginal     ID: 32
Title: Australian Literary & Historical Texts.
Description:  This is a collection of an 18th, 19th and 20th century Australian texts. To look at the change in how we communicate, students could do a comparative study from each of the three centuries.
Rating: ****
Level: ideal for year levels  10-12   On the web

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