This site is designed to stimulate the type of future if humans do not protect their environment and reduce, reuse and recycle.
Photos and information about Australian rainforest animals.
Information on recycling, National Tree Day, climate change and other environmental issues.
Lots of information, facts and pictures of the rainforest, sustainable rainforest products, help with rainforest school reports, rainforests plants and links to other rainforest web pages.
A site from the Rainforest Action Network. There is a Kids Action Tool Kit where students will find facts and information about what they can do to stop the latest causes of rainforest desctruction and climate change. There is a kid's art gallery, crafts and recipes games, colouring book, fact sheets, question and answers, video, glossary, links to other sites and teacher resources.
Lots of links and activities to do with the environment and planet Earth including games for students, worksheets and clipart.
A database listing all the endangered animals by place or species. Using the menu on the left hand side, scroll down to the 'Wilfinder' link under the 'Explore' heading.
Contains fact sheets about all endangered species worldwide. Select the 'Get the facts' icon.
NSW Department of Primary Industries had an education section with an activity book and blackline masters to do with forests and forest animals.
Simple information about endangered species and Australia. To navigate, select the 'Planet Earth', 'Animals' or Australia' icon. Click on a topic in the A-Z index.
This site explains different theories in animated from as to why dinosaurs became extinct. Use the search function on the toolbar at the top of the page. Enter the question: 'What killed the dinosaurs?' Scroll down the options until you come to the link 'What killed the dinosaurs?'. This is useful as it could provide a connection with animal extinction of today and possibly how to prevent this from happening.
Click on the 'Themes' heading then 'Australia' or 'Environment' for various activities.
Go to 'Themes', 'Science', and 'Environment' for a range of activities for students.
A free teachers resource wesite that gives detailed lesson plans for all curriculum areas. This would be great for ideas.
An Education Queensland website that gives detailed unit plans for technology from prep to year 9.
access to various curriculum lesson plans.