Online Learning Resources for Teachers and Parents

These educational resources are available for everyone to use and cover all year levels and learning areas.

Teachers can use this resource to create learning paths by saving their favourite Scootle resources and organising sequences of them, or view learning paths that have been shared by others.

A range of new resources to support learning in the classroom and at home have been added to the Scootle collection. Resources include: short video lessons in English and mathematics; explorations of ancient civilisations for history; inquiry units in mathematics, science and geography; and Australian Parliament fact sheets and explainers for civics and citizenship.

Information about augmented reality, virtual reality and emerging technologies.

This course is intended to provide non-experts with a perspective on the evolving COVID-19 situation and implications.

Teachers, parents and students can use this page to search for Digital Technologies resources that are aligned to the Australian Digital Technologies curriculum.

Inclusive education means making sure that education is accessible to every student. Discover how to include inclusive education in your Digital Technologies classroom.

Assessment on the DT-Hub includes advice and resources to assist you to create quality assessment tasks. View the sample assessment tasks linked to the scope and sequence resource and select those tasks suited to the curriculum content you are assessing. View the checklists, think alouds, and rubrics and modify these to suit your context and your learners.

This resource provides teachers with sequenced learning programs that are organised by year level and topic of interest. These can be adapted and used when teaching the Australian Digital Technologies curriculum.

In this webinar, Community Psychologist, Dr Lyn O'Grady, explores the importance of managing self-care and offers practical advice for supporting colleagues and students in extraordinary times of change.

Educators, parents and students can use these resources to support wellbeing within their communities during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

Explore teaching resources that assist with wellbeing education in the classroom. Find free, quality-assured, age-appropriate, curriculum-aligned resources in a variety of formats to help you create and maintain a safe, inclusive and positive learning environment.

The Australian Student Wellbeing Framework is designed to help parents and teachers provide students with the strongest possible foundation for reaching their aspirations in learning and in life.

Being a preservice teacher in 2020 is unlike anything anyone has ever experienced! This webinar explores the challenges this brings and also look at some of the incredible opportunities it offers.

Use these STEM lessons to provide an engaging context for your students to develop and apply their STEM skills and knowledge to solve a problem or challenge. The lessons generally integrate several learning areas in a holistic way to enable students to work in teams using a multi-disciplinary approach.

Do you have a great lesson, but feel like it’s not engaging boys and girls equally? Follow these steps to adapt your lesson to be more gender-inclusive.

The Phonics Check is a quick and easy way for educators to gauge the phonics knowledge of their Year 1 students. It demonstrates how well children in Year 1 can ‘decode' by recognising the sound each individual letter makes, by identifying sounds that different letter combinations make, and by being able to blend these sounds together from left to right to make a word.

The Literacy Hub offers a range of downloadable resources to help with educators’ understanding of the Phonics Check and its use in the classroom. You’ll find downloadable materials for students to work with offline, and some fun activities for families to undertake at home. Links to supporting documentation on how phonics knowledge helps students’ early reading literacy are also available.

These career education resources are designed to support educators, parents and students and their learning communities.

These resources are designed to help subject teachers build their students' career awareness. Each resource is aligned to an Australian Curriculum learning area.

ESA offers a range of free online professional learning modules for educators to complete at their own pace. From courses for educators working in early years settings, courses to help schools engage positively with current and future challenges, and professional learning modules to assist educators with implementing and gaining confidence in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD) model. For further information, and to view the range of courses available, please visit our Professional learning modules page.

This video is for teachers who want to gain a better understanding of how to use learning paths to make a collection of resources on the topic they are teaching.

Read the quarterly school library magazine Connections online to keep up to date with the latest in school library trends and information.

This free short course for school library staff focuses on collection, curation and cataloguing. It will help with the organisation of your library's resource offerings.

Subscribe to the SCIS Blog and gain access to SCIS research and initiatives and keep up to date with the latest in school library trends and information.

Watch quick and easy help videos on how to make the most of your SCIS Data subscription.

View our wide range of webinars designed to help educators implement the Digital Technologies curriculum in classrooms.

The Hub’s free courses provide high quality professional learning to help schools engage positively with current and future challenges. All courses are aligned to the Australian Student Wellbeing Framework and to the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) professional standards at the Proficient level.

These educational resources are available for everyone to use and cover all year levels and learning areas. For support on accessing Scootle as a guest user, take a look at our information guide.

Here you will find resources to help you learn more about Digital Technologies and how to prepare your child to access the opportunities of the future.

The following collection of activities has been designed to be completed in the home or around your local community to assist in building your children's knowledge of the Australian Digital Technologies curriculum. These activities require minimal preparation from parents, and include all the necessary knowledge required to complete the tasks with your children.

Teachers, parents and students can use this page to search for Digital Technologies resources that are aligned to the Australian Digital Technologies curriculum.

This is your space, where you can find information and advice about important topics like bullying, online safety, communicating with your child and the school, and much more, to help you make your child’s learning journey a safe and positive one.

Educators, parents and students can use these resources to support wellbeing within their communities during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

Teachers can promote wellbeing in the classroom using these free, quality-assured, age-appropriate, curriculum-aligned resources designed to help teachers create and maintain safe, inclusive and positive learning environments.

The Australian Student Wellbeing Framework is designed to help parents and teachers provide students with the strongest possible foundation for reaching their aspirations in learning and in life.

The involvement of family, especially parents, in STEM learning is invaluable in providing support for girls engaging in STEM experiences. However, the role of parents in influencing subject and career choices is often overlooked.

These resources have been handpicked for girls to inspire them to pursue an interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Bored with the same old entertainment on offer? Give yourself a brain-boosting update with these fun films, YouTube channels and books – handpicked for girls in STEM.

If you're a student interested in STEM, the GiST shares some of their favourite podcasts run by women doing amazing things in STEM fields.

These Fun DIY activities can be done at home to encourage girls to become more interested in STEM.

The STEM career quiz helps students to find subjects and careers that match their interests. Students can also learn more about jobs, industry growth prospects, average weekly pay, and more.

Here you'll find the A–Z of careers and jobs in the big wide world of STEM.

The GiST asked a group of STEM experts to predict what the jobs of the future might look like.

This comprehensive section of the site provides families with a wide array of information about Phonics and the Year 1 Phonics Check for Teachers.

A phonics check that you can do at home with your child. There is also a supporting guide for families on pronunciation.

A simple observational checklist that families can do at home to gain a sense of how their Year 1 child is developing in learning to read in English.

Find ideas, activities and tips to help your child read with phonics, and a link to learn more about literacy on the Australian Curriculum website.

These career activities span teenagers, primary school students and pre-schoolers and are a great way to begin a conversation about the world of work.

Find an array of career education resources that have been designed to support teachers, parents and students and their learning communities during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

The nine activities in My career profile enable students to explore their interests, skills and values, and generate a personalised list of suggested occupations.

Parents can use this resource to introduce their children to some celebrations from around the world.

Parents can use this resource at home to spark inspiration in the kitchen and in the minds of children by introducing foods from a variety of cultures.

Parents can use this resource to encourage language learning and maths for children through everyday counting activities that make learning fun.

Parents can use this resource to introduce children to other cultures and countries by creating art at home.

Parents can use this resource to help choose culturally diverse books to read at home with their children.