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Most students have some understanding that many animals in Australia are found nowhere else in the world. This unit allows students to explore the reasons why one group of these animals, the amazing marsupials, which are born still in an embryonic state, are so special. Students will be encouraged to pursue research projects and to understand the complex world of animal and habitat adaptation. Students will study a variety of marsupial creatures in some detail.

Australia is a country of distinct geographical features and landmarks, both natural and built. This unit begins by giving students an understanding of the physical shape of the country of Australia and its divisions into states and territories. Students will develop an understanding of floral and faunal emblems, the Coat of Arms, state flags and recognisable landmarks. The unit concludes with students being asked to select criteria for the choice of a capital city and defend their point of view.

Australia has more than 800 different species of reptile. They manage to survive in the harshest of environments, where few other creatures can. Australian reptiles include crocodiles, turtles, lizards and snakes. It is difficult for many students to have access to viewing a range of real (live) reptiles, so an excursion to a local wildlife park is an advantage to help students build their field of knowledge on the topic. Reptiles are relatively inactive during winter, so the best time to do this unit is in summer or late spring.

Successful Spelling provides an integrated method of teaching phonics, spelling and vocabulary.

Successful Spelling provides an integrated method of teaching phonics, spelling and vocabulary.

Successful Spelling provides an integrated method of teaching phonics, spelling and vocabulary.

Successful Spelling provides an integrated method of teaching phonics, spelling and vocabulary.

Successful Spelling provides an integrated method of teaching phonics, spelling and vocabulary.

Successful Spelling provides an integrated method of teaching phonics, spelling and vocabulary.

Successful Spelling provides an integrated method of teaching phonics, spelling and vocabulary.

Natural Maths assessment Guides
are a companion series to Natural Maths Strategies and provides the
tools needed to make informed and accurate assessments of an individual
student’s level of mathematical competence.

Natural Maths assessment Guides
are a companion series to Natural Maths Strategies and provides the
tools needed to make informed and accurate assessments of an individual
student’s level of mathematical competence.

Natural Maths assessment Guides
are a companion series to Natural Maths Strategies and provides the
tools needed to make informed and accurate assessments of an individual
student’s level of mathematical competence.

Natural Maths assessment Guides
are a companion series to Natural Maths Strategies and provides the
tools needed to make informed and accurate assessments of an individual
student’s level of mathematical competence.

The Ready-to-Go Open-ended Maths Investigations series provides teachers with open-ended problems that allow students to bring their own thinking and learning strategies to the task.

Wonderful Words is full of practical pages that will enhance a busy teacher’s English program.

Wonderful Words is full of practical pages that will enhance a busy teacher’s English program.

Wonderful Words is full of practical pages that will enhance a busy teacher’s English program.

Each unit in Solve that Problem! introduces a new problem-solving skill.

Grammar with Grin is a compilation of jokes, riddles, silly stories and fun pictures to make teaching basic grammatical concepts entertaining, as well as challenging and stimulating.

Grammar with Grin is a compilation of jokes, riddles, silly stories and fun pictures to make teaching basic grammatical concepts entertaining, as well as challenging and stimulating.

Grammar with Grin is a compilation of jokes, riddles, silly stories and fun pictures to make teaching basic grammatical concepts entertaining, as well as challenging and stimulating.

The Ready-to-Go Writing Narrative Text series provides teachers with a systematic framework to assist students to write interesting and imaginative stories.

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The title includes:

The title includes:

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Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Encourage your students to use and understand mathematics in their everyday lives with these Exploring Maths activity books that cover all lower primary mathematics topics.

Each unit in Solve that Problem! introduces a new problem-solving skill.

Wendy Beckett is an international playwright whose plays are produced in Sydney, Paris and New York. Ordinarily she writes for adult audiences, but on this occasion she has turned her attention to writing comic plays for primary school children. As a former school teacher, she saw the need for children to connect with familiar reference points, so each work has a distinct Australian flavour.

Innovative activities that will consolidate an understanding of essential science theory and practice, as well as provide opportunities to develop literacy skills.

Innovative activities that will consolidate an understanding of essential science theory and practice, as well as provide opportunities to develop literacy skills.

Innovative activities that will consolidate an understanding of essential science theory and practice, as well as provide opportunities to develop literacy skills.

Innovative activities that will consolidate an understanding of essential science theory and practice, as well as provide opportunities to develop literacy skills.

This Junior Science series aims to provide teachers with innovative lessons across a variety of topics studied in Science at the junior secondary level.

This Junior Science series aims to provide teachers with innovative lessons across a variety of topics studied in Science at the junior secondary level.

This Junior Science series aims to provide teachers with innovative lessons across a variety of topics studied in Science at the junior secondary level.

This Junior Science series aims to provide teachers with innovative lessons across a variety of topics studied in Science at the junior secondary level.

A collection of work sheets for senior mathematics students of all abilities, and include topics common to all States.

A collection of work sheets for senior mathematics students of all abilities, and include topics common to all States.

These books help teachers to introduce, and make explicit, mental computation strategies

These books help teachers to introduce, and make explicit, mental computation strategies

Good Grammar makes it easy to improve your students’ written and spoken expression by focusing on grammatical accuracy and meaning.

Spelling Success presents user-friendly and practical activities for the classroom teacher.

Spelling Success presents user-friendly and practical activities for the classroom teacher.

Values Book 1 and Book 2, will make implementing and teaching the new Values Education curriculum easy and also rewarding for your students.

Values Book 1 and Book 2, will make implementing and teaching the new Values Education curriculum easy and also rewarding for your students.

These books introduce students to the key technical terms concepts and issues related to this area of biology.

The work sheets include definitions, review pages, formulas, and answers for time efficient marking.

The work sheets include definitions, review pages, formulas, and answers for time efficient marking.

The work sheets include definitions, review pages, formulas, and answers for time efficient marking.

Science experiments with historical notes and interesting facts about the principles being demonstrated.

Popular themes presented in integrated teaching units.

Popular themes presented in integrated teaching units.

Popular themes presented in integrated teaching units.

Popular themes presented in integrated teaching units.

Popular themes presented in integrated teaching units.

Good Grammar makes it easy to improve your students’ written and spoken expression by focusing on grammatical accuracy and meaning.

Good Grammar makes it easy to improve your students’ written and spoken expression by focusing on grammatical accuracy and meaning.

A collection of work sheets for senior mathematics students of all abilities, and include topics common to all States.

A collection of work sheets for senior mathematics students of all abilities, and include topics common to all States.

These books introduce students to the key technical terms concepts and issues related to this area of biology.

Essential biology topics in a format suitable for revision, assessment and homework, or as extension for more able students.

Essential biology topics in a format suitable for revision, assessment and homework, or as extension for more able students.

Includes topics that students have traditionally found difficult and breaks them into sections, examining each one step by step.

A Reader’s Theatre performance is a dramatic reading without the need for stage actions, or elaborate sets and costumes.

A Reader’s Theatre performance is a dramatic reading without the need for stage actions, or elaborate sets and costumes.

A Reader’s Theatre performance is a dramatic reading without the need for stage actions, or elaborate sets and costumes.

Includes topics that students have traditionally found difficult and breaks them into sections, examining each one step by step.

Essential biology topics in a format suitable for revision, assessment and homework, or as extension for more able students.

Natural Maths Strategies
provides the core knowledge and understanding of the “big ideas” or
concepts students require to become confident and enthusiastic maths
users.

Eight real-life maths investigations screened in 3-minute episodes on a DVD player or an interactive whiteboard. A challenge problem for students is also presented at the end of each episode.

Eight real-life maths investigations screened in 3-minute episodes on a DVD player or an interactive whiteboard. A challenge problem for students is also presented at the end of each episode.

Eight real-life maths investigations screened in 3-minute episodes on a DVD player or an interactive whiteboard. A challenge problem for students is also presented at the end of each episode.

This book contains eight fun, yet challenging, English lesson starters that explore spelling, punctuation and grammar for lower primary. Each lesson is introduced to the students via a short, humorous video clip that presents the English task in a real-life setting.

This book contains eight fun, yet challenging, English lesson starters that explore spelling, punctuation and grammar for middle primary. Each lesson is introduced to the students via a short, humorous video clip that presents the English task in a real-life setting.

This book contains eight fun, yet challenging, English lesson starters that explore spelling, punctuation and grammar for upper primary. Each lesson is introduced to the students via a short, humorous video clip that presents the English task in a real-life setting.

This book contains eight fun, yet challenging, problem- solving scenarios that explore the three major strands in the Australian curriculum. The design of the video segments and the problems posed enable the busy teacher to fully implement the proficiency strands of; understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning.

This book contains eight fun, yet challenging, problem- solving scenarios that explore the three major strands in the Australian curriculum. The design of the video segments and the problems posed enable the busy teacher to fully implement the proficiency strands of; understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning.

This book contains eight fun, yet challenging, problem- solving scenarios that explore the three major strands in the Australian curriculum. The design of the video segments and the problems posed enable the busy teacher to fully implement the proficiency strands of; understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning.

Meets the challenge of providing an integrated approach to the curriculum and provides a springboard for exploring everything Australian.

Meets the challenge of providing an integrated approach to the curriculum and provides a springboard for exploring everything Australian.

Meets the challenge of providing an integrated approach to the curriculum and provides a springboard for exploring everything Australian.

Natural Maths Strategies
provides the core knowledge and understanding of the “big ideas” or
concepts students require to become confident and enthusiastic maths
users.

Natural Maths Strategies
provides the core knowledge and understanding of the “big ideas” or
concepts students require to become confident and enthusiastic maths
users.

Natural Maths Strategies
provides the core knowledge and understanding of the “big ideas” or
concepts students require to become confident and enthusiastic maths
users.

Strategic Maths provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies.

Strategic Maths provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies.

Strategic Maths provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies.

Strategic Maths provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies.

Strategic Maths provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies.

Strategic Maths provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies.

Strategic Maths provides teachers with a rigorous developmental approach to teaching Number, and provides explicit teaching of number strategies.

The Science Through Sport series has been designed to reinforce scientific and mathematical principles through the use of sport science concepts.

The Science Through Sport series has been designed to reinforce scientific and mathematical principles through the use of sport science concepts.

The Science Through Sport series has been designed to reinforce scientific and mathematical principles through the use of sport science concepts.

The Science Through Sport series has been designed to reinforce scientific and mathematical principles through the use of sport science concepts.

The Smart & Safe series has been developed to assist teachers to introduce and teach topics in the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Curriculum.

The Smart & Safe series has been developed to assist teachers to introduce and teach topics in the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Curriculum.

The Smart & Safe series has been developed to assist teachers to introduce and teach topics in the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Curriculum.

The Smart & Safe series has been developed to assist teachers to introduce and teach topics in the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Curriculum.

The Smart & Safe series has been developed to assist teachers to introduce and teach topics in the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Curriculum.

The Smart & Safe series has been developed to assist teachers to introduce and teach topics in the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Curriculum.

The Writing fun CD-ROM has been written to assist students to write a wide variety of genres. It features Text Organizers, for 14 text types, which explain the purpose, structure and language features.

This multimedia series has been developed to teach topics in careers, work education and life skills.

This multimedia series has been developed to teach topics in careers, work education and life skills.

The Smart & Safe series has been developed to assist teachers to introduce and teach topics in the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Curriculum.

The Smart & Safe series has been developed to assist teachers to introduce and teach topics in the  Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Curriculum.