Homework

• Bringing Them home - Includes personal stories, teaching resources and a section on indigenous social justice
• Indigenous Australia - This site explores Indigenous Australia through storytelling, cultures and histories. It includes Stories of the Dreaming, teachers' resources and content for students.
• National NAIDOC - NAIDOC celebrates the survival of Indigenous culture and the Indigenous contribution to modern Australia

• Cotton Australia - Education - Facts sheets on the history, growing, processing, manufacturing etc of cotton

• Australian Koala Foundation - The site features facts about koalas (habitat,diet, life cycle, koala sounds, and more), images, and information about AKF projects. Also includes information for children
• AustralianFauna.com - Genuine quality information about ALL types of Australian Fauna
• Frogs: A Chorus of Colors - This site provides information on frog life cycles and reproduction, environmental concerns, details on various species (including poisonous ones), photographs, and audio files of individual species and of a frog chorus
• Marsupial society of Australia - Information about keeping and breeding our native Fauna in captivity
• The Reptiles of Australia - Information on the range of reptiles found in Australia including images, maps and habitats.

• Drought for kids - Describes what drought is ("not just a lack of rainfall"), and explains how droughts are tracked, the damage they can cause, and how to plan ahead and conserve water
• El Nino and Climate Prediction - A publication of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (USA)
• Greenhouse Office, Australian - The Australian Greenhouse Office has a range of programs from household and community to industry and government action that are making significant progress in reducing Australia’s greenhouse emissions.

• Dino directory - Basic information on 229 of the most well described dinosaurs. The directory can be searched by scientific name, body shape, or by time period
• Dinosaurs - a museum tour of dinosaur fossils with brief descriptions
• Prehistoric life: Age of the Dinosaurs

• Earthquake information - earthquakes around the world but mainly in Nevada
• Significant Earthquakes of the World
• The Tsunami Page - Tsunami, Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Volcanic Eruptions and other Natural and Man-Made Hazards and Disasters

• Drug info @ Your Local Library - provides up to date information about alcohol and drugs on this website and through local public libraries in New South Wales

• ANZ Reference Centre - a broad range of subjects is covered by this collection of books, journal and newspaper articles. Just use the barcode from your Library Card to login
• Education Index - An annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web - sorted by subject and lifestage
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Fact Monster - Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help
• HomeworkSpot - Years 1-6
• National Geographic - Homework help
• WebLinks - our very excellent list of lots of other useful sites
• Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia - The encyclopedia that anyone can edit

• Earth Science Australia - geology, fossils, earth sciences
• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority - all about the GBRMPA, how they manage the Great Barrier Reef, facts about the reef
• How volcanoes work - An educational resource that describes the science behind volcanoes and volcanic processes
• Landforms - our Weblinks list of key sites - mainly Australian
• Virtual Volcano - Explore a virtual volcano. From the Discovery Channel.
• Volcanoes for kids - Volcano education for teachers and students
• World Heritage List

• Australia's Prime Ministers - lists all Prime Ministers of Australia
• BBC History for Kids - Information for Primary and Secondary students
• Illawarra Images - historical images database
• Illawarra Place Names - local place names and their meaning
• Kidipede - History for kids - Introductory material designed for children about the history and culture of Europe, Asia, and Africa before 1500. Topics include North America, China, India, west Asia, Greece, Egypt, Africa, Rome, Islam, Germany, and the Middle Ages
• Ned Kelly: Australian Ironoutlaw
• Pompeii: Stories from an eruption - Companion website to a 2005-2006 exhibition at the Field Museum (Chicago) about the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 that affected Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, and other areas
• Prime Ministers of Australia Scrapbook
• The Bushranger Site - pictures, history of over 30 Australian bushrangers
• WebLinks History - Lots of links, Australian and World History

• Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission - Information for Students - Information for students on human rights, disability rights, sex discrimination, racial discrimination etc

• Immigration & Multicultural Affairs - Fact Sheets - Fact Sheets provide background information on Australian immigration and related issues

• Lawstuff - legal information for young people

• Mathematics - History Biographies, classic problems, famous curves through the ages etc.
• The calculus page - Calculus.org Resources For The Calculus Student

• Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day - A chronology of money from 9000BC to 2002. Select a time period from the Timelines.

• Electoral systems - From the Parliament of Australia - Parliamentary Library

• Amazing Rainforest Animals - Animals From aardvark to xenosaurus
• Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia - examples of 5 types of rainforest, brief information.
• Rainforest Animals - taken from the Multimedia Animals Encyclopedia.
• Rainforests - A school site giving information about tropical and temperate reainforests, tropical plants and animals

• Bibme - The quickest way to build a bibliography on the Web
• Harvard Style references - how to format references for your assignments

• Ask a Scientist? - Visitors to the site can browse, search for previously answered questions or submit their own questions. Visitors will definitely want to view the "Frequently Viewed Questions", which feature responses to such favorites queries as "How can you tell if a diamond is real or fake?" or "How is glass made?"
• Australian Museum Online - For those who can’t make a journey to the Museum, this website affords users remarkable access to specific materials created for this website and materials from exhibits
• Australia's Lost Kingdoms - This site features educational materials about Australia's reptiles, birds and mammals from the Cretaceous to the present
• NASA Homepage - Space exploration
• Nuclear science in society - A science resource for Australian teachers and students in years 7-10
• The Nine Planets - a multi-media tour of the solar system
• World of Astronomy - dictionaries, handbook, search by topic

• Country Profiles - An instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries
• Flags of the World
• World Fact Book - countries, statistics, maps, flags, population, environment, economy...