Teacher Resources

The Hardball Series 2 Teaching Toolkit will support Year 3–6 teachers and students to engage with learning tasks for each Content Descriptor in the Australian Curriculum: Media Arts. In addition, General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum are also addressed and specified under the respective content descriptor. The content descriptors are grouped in the 3-4 and 5-6 Bands; however,...

The Hoopla Doopla!: English & Chinese Language Resource has been developed in partnership with the Asia Education Foundation (AEF) for lower-primary (F-2) Chinese language teachers. The resource features English and Mandarin language version episodes of the highly popular Hoopla Doopla! TV series - a unique show for 3-7 year olds where the characters physical action and comedy drive the story....

Lottie Dowling from the Asia Education Foundation introduces the engaging Hoopla Doopla! Curriculum Resource, and outlines it links to the Australian Curriculum.

MY:24 offers a series of unique windows into contemporary Australian life from the perspective of young people. The MY:24 Study Guide – Humanities, provides practitioners with discussion tools and activities to link these stories with themes identified in Years 5-9 of the Australian Curriculum: Humanities, with a particular focus on Civics and Citizenship. The MY:24 stories chosen for...

Through this unit of work, written by Wendy Bean, students examine the visual and printed texts of the Paper Planes (feature film and novel). The novel is based on the motion picture screenplay Paper Planes, and is written by Steve Worland. This unit of work explores a range of themes touched on in the novel and film including loss, relationships, connectedness, friendship, independence and...

Director Robert Connolly and actors Ed Oxenbould and Peter Rowsthorn share their experience of making Paper Planes during this virtual excursion. The Q&A format provided students with an opportunity to ask their own questions about filmmaking - from the initial idea, to hiring of the cast and crew.

Woven Threads: Stories from Afar is an 8 x 4-minute series which presents varied refugee stories through beautiful and powerful animations. The emotive storytelling compels us to remember our shared humanity, and to identify with the universality of the refugee experience. The Woven Threads: Stories from Afar Teaching Toolkit aims to support teachers in exploring key themes from the series....