Animals

Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Zoo and Healesville Sanctuary - Information about all three zoos, it also includes a search option for information about all sorts of zoo animals.

Australian Koala Foundation - Lots of useful information about koalas, including its life cycle, habitat and lots of great photos and activities.

An ABC of Australian Animals - Just click on the letters to discover all sorts of interesting information about your favourite Australian animals.

Art

Cartooning with Richard Galbraith - A wonderful website to help you with your cartooning. Meet some fun characters and find out lots of interesting stuff!

Art Attack - access directions to make, build or draw a variety of art related projects. A great site for primary school students.

The Art Room - a good site for art teachers to access resources and safety tips for the art room. It includes lesson plans and examples of children's art from around the world.

Artist Index - an alphabetical listing of hundreds of artists, complete with biographies and examples of their works.

Ivy's Colouring Page - just search for blackline masters of animals.

Favourite Art Lesson Plans - lesson plans for all year levels on loads of subjects.

Australian History

Port Arthur - Australia's Convict Past - Learn about Australia's convict heritage.

Ned Kelly - The life of the famous Ned Kelly and information about other Australian bushrangers.

Australian Historical Photos - Search for photos from all over Australia.

Sovereign Hill, Ballarat - Learn some facts about Australia's Goldrush. You'll also find some wordsearches and other activities  on this site.

Biographies

Biographical Descriptions - A website which allows you to search for information  about all sorts of famous people.

Dictionaries

Online Dictionary - just type in the word and press enter! Features languages other than English.

Cambridge Dictionary - another excellent dictionary site which also has online activities.

Dinosaurs

All About Dinosaurs - information, activities and much more about this fascinating subject.

Curse of T-Rex - this site contains information, not only about dinosaurs, but also the plants, animals and insects that lived alongside them.

The Dinosauria - this site would be particularly useful for upper primary school children. It has loads of information for projects.

Zoom Dinosaurs - information, print-outs and fact sheets about many dinosaurs.

Farms

Collingwood Children's Farm - All sorts of wonderful information and activities about life on the farm.

The Farm Website - This is a great website for teachers and students. Access many activities and links to other farm websites.

Forensic Science

Kruglick's Forensic Resource This site contains links to many  pages that will provide information about DNA, fingerprints, tyre prints, polygraphs and much more.

DNA from the Beginning Organized around key concepts. The science behind each concept is explained by: animation, image gallery, video interviews, problem,biographies, and links.

The Thin Blue Line Explains about what forensic scientists do and provides lots of information about the different fields of forensic science.

Geography

What is the Capital City of...? - a very useful site to use as a quick and accurate reference guide to capital cities. It also contains a series of geography quizzes.

Health

Kids' Health for Kids - On this site you will find heaps of information about the human body, nutrition and even some great kids' recipes!

  Inventions

Zoom Inventors and Inventions - An alphabetical listing of lots of well-known inventions and their creators.

National Inventors Hall of Fame - The National Inventors Hall of Fame honors the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible. 

The Great Idea Finder - Fascinating facts about inventions and innovations from around the world.  Includes an inventor profile, an inventions time-line and trivia quiz.

Kids' Stuff

Funbrain for Kids and Teachers -Lots of games under lots of different subject areas. 

Ezene - English and Maths activities for students in grades 5 and 6. This site was created specifically for Aussie kids by professional educators. It is continually updated and may only be accessed by using your user name and password.

Cartooning with Richard Galbraith - A wonderful website to help you with your cartooning. Meet some fun characters and find out lots of interesting stuff!

Maths

On-line Maths Games - This link will take you to many exciting and fun maths games.

Create a Graph - Use this site to create your own graphs! You can do bar graphs, line graphs, area graphs, pie graphs and XY graphs.

Minibeasts

An ABC of Australian Invertebrates - Just click on the letters to discover all sorts of interesting information about your favourite Australian invertebrates.

Natural Disasters

Nature's Fury - Lots of photos and  information about volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes, bushfires, earthquakes and more.

Australian Severe Weather - Australia's largest archive of severe weather photos and videos footage.

Earth's Active Volcanoes - Photos and news reports about currently active volcanoes all over the world.

Frequently Asked Volcano Questions - What is a volcano? Why do volcanoes erupt? The answers to these questions and more can be found on this website.

Queensland University Advanced Centre for Earthquake Studies - Earthquake information from Australia and all around the world.

Living with Drought -Australia is the driest inhabited continent even though some areas have annual rainfall of over 1200 millimetres. Our climate is highly variable - across the continent generally, as well as from year-to-year. We must learn to live with drought!

Plants

An ABC of Australian Plants - Just click on the letters to discover all sorts of interesting information about your favourite Australian plants.

Poetry

Giggle Poetry - Fun poetry for kids and teachers.

Reading

Bookworm at Kids Reads -  This website has book reviews, author interviews, trivia quizzes on your favourite books and activity sheets as well.

Check out your favourite authors by clicking on these links to their official websites - 

Paul Jennings , Morris Gleitzman , Jackie French , Roald Dahl , Michael Salmon,  Richard Galbraith  

Robots

Robosaurus - The site contains original drawings by Larry Wood, the creator of the Robosaurus Robots. It contains plenty of ideas for creating your own robots.

Robot Builders - The Robot Builders Club will help you with tips on how to create your own robots from parts. It has a construction section, containing advice, measurements and tips.

Science

Scienceworks - A great website with links to all sorts of interesting articles about science.

The Adventures of Science Bob - "Science Bob" Pflugfelder has been a fan of science since he was just six years old. Over the years, he has been exploring the scientific world with thousands of students. Visit his website to find information about the human body, experiments and also great teacher resources.    

Search Engines

www.ninemsn.com.au has all the latest news stories, plus recipes, real estate, travel and other useful information. It also has an excellent search facility.

www.dogpile.com This is a meta-search engine, which will search other search engines and list the best sites.

www.google.com the world's most popular search engine.

www.webwombat.com.au the Australian search engine.

www.ajkids.com Ask Jeeves for Kids has some great features, including thesaurus and dictionary links.

Society & Environment

The Gould League -This website has some easy activities for Primary school children on making food webs and being a science detective. 

World Wide Fund for Nature - Australia - News about Australia's endangered animals and environmental issues.

Everything Ocean - Lots of information about the world's oceans,  including environmental issues, is available on this site.

EcoKids! - Increase your environmental knowledge by using accessing the interactive games and activities on this website.

Life Cycles - Access information about the life cycles of frogs, ants, plants and garden insects.

Space

The Nine Planets  -An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets.

NASA Kids - A special kids' website run by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of America.

The Solar System - A huge site for information about the Solar System - including over 315 web pages with lots of pictures, quizzes and WebQuests.

Sport

Australian Olympic Committee - The official website for the Australian Olympic Committee. 

International Olympic Committee - This is the official website for the Olympics Games. 

Australian Football League - Find out all the latest AFL news from the official website. There are also links to the websites of all the league teams.

Teachers' Stuff

Enchanted Learning - A great website for teachers. There are heaps of blackline masters to print out, including label-it worksheets, on an enormous range of subjects. 

Picadome Curriculum Links - This site contains links to many fantastic websites that contain heaps of relevant subjects for teachers.

Oz Ed Web - This site features information as well as lesson plans on a variety of subjects, including convicts, Australian explorers, aborigines, geology and women in history.

Scholastic Lesson Plans - search for lesson plans for different grades levels and subjects.

The Magic School Bus Theme Index - select a theme to access resources and activities on all the subject the Magic School Bus has covered.

Ray's Learning Teachers' Website - an extremely useful site for report writing advice as well as a comment bank, plus other helpful stuff for teachers.

Bureau of Meteorology Learning Activities - The activities include interactive animated models, a cloud quiz, teacher lesson plans and student worksheets.

Weather

Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology - Contains heaps of information about weather, including current radar maps of Australia.

  WebQuests

Treasure Chest - Oceans - A very exciting webquest that will challenge your ocean knowledge. There are many facts to learn while having lots of fun!

Writing

Letter Writing Interactive - Australia Post's education website provides a step-by-step guide to writing a letter and correctly addressing an envelope. It includes personal and business letters and sample letters. There is also a selection of colourful letterheads and lots of helpful hints.