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• TLF-IDA008810
• Learning areasScience
• Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
• Updated22/09/2025
• AC version 8
• AC version 9

In this Illustration of Practice, a teacher articulates how effective science teaching needs to have a hands-on element to reinforce the theory in an engaging investigative approach. The teacher facilitates experimental science in the primary section of the school which has a positive impact for both the students and the ...

• TLF-IDA004932
• Learning areasScience
• Year levels 8; 9; 10
• Updated29/04/2026
• AC version 8
• AC version 9

This collection of learning activities explores the concept of energy and why it is crucial to our understanding of how everything in the universe works – from sub-atomic particles to the sun, mobile phones and the universe itself. There are links to critical thinking activities and experiments that cover the concepts of ...

• TLF-IDR4949
• Updated08/12/2021

This is a 29.6 cm x 40.3 cm black-and-white photograph of Chinese-born Michael Xu at a party following his citizenship ceremony. He is smiling and wearing a business shirt with a toy koala clipped to his tie and a broad-rimmed hat with corks on strings. He has a glass of beer in his hand. Other people can be glimpsed in ...

• TLF-IDS4521
• Learning areasScience
• Year levels 4; 5; 6
• Updated15/10/2025

This collection of six digital curriculum resources looks at light, electricity and energy. The three student resources contain a range of activities and information designed to develop understanding and skills, and all include colour photographs, diagrams, tables and planning worksheets. The three teacher assessment resources ...

• TLF-IDM016850
• Learning areasScience
• Year levels 3; 4; 5; 6
• Updated25/07/2025
• AC version 8
• AC version 9

In this Illustration of Practice, a Grade 4 teacher attempts to find the right balance between allowing her students to follow their own interests in the learning process and in actively directing learning to ensure that learning goals are met within the prescribed time. She describes her approach to planning a unit on ...

• TLF-IDR6818
• Learning areasHistory; Humanities and Social Sciences
• Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
• Updated30/04/2026

This is a black-and-white photograph of Charles Perkins travelling home from Sydney University by bus or train in his first year of enrolment.

• TLF-IDR9619
• Updated08/12/2021

'When I think of Australia' is a narrative poem in which Melbourne poet Amelia Walker explores the idea that Australia is becoming less tolerant of migrants and asylum seekers. The narrator's memories of a happy childhood are contrasted with images she sees on television of refugee children in detention camps. The poem ...

• TLF-IDR7255
• Updated29/10/2021

This clip shows the re-creation of a Sydney street scene in 1914 as the First World War begins. Recruitment posters and men in uniform can be seen in the street. Through the characters of Will (Tamblyn Lord) and rabbito Ned (Nathan Croft) the clip dramatically depicts some of the various responses of Australians to enlistment. ...

• TLF-IDR8604
• Learning areasHistory; Humanities and Social Sciences
• Year levels 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
• Updated30/04/2026

This is a black-and-white photograph of Private Alfred John Henry Lovett of Hamilton in Victoria with his wife Sarah and two sons. The photograph was taken before Lovett's embarkation for Europe to serve in the First World War (1914-18). Lovett and his sons are Indigenous Australians. The family is posed and attired in ...

• TLF-IDR964
• Updated08/12/2021

This is a song describing the dreams and memories inspired by the moon on the Murray River. It was recorded in 1924, probably in England, and is from the 1920 Australian mystery musical comedy 'FFF'.