Teaching during COVID-19

Slip some science into everyday activities you can do while at home. The Hub has resources for helping early childhood, lower primary and middle primary students and families. This article outlines simple ways to engage learners and enhance their learning.

Check out our articles with ideas for hands-on, active and outdoor learning from home for: 

-  early childhood 

- lower primary 

- middle primary

These articles include a mixture of hands-on and online at home learning for:
- upper primary 

- secondary

These resources have been created for the online learning world. You may know some of the selected plays and some may be new. It’s always great to make discoveries. Whichever is the case, Australian Plays recommends that teachers access and read a script before selecting it for their students. Each script and the accompanying activities are designed as a mini unit of work or series of lessons for students to do solo, in pairs and in collaboration and take place over several days or more..

STEM and policy aspects of COVID-19 made simple


To help us make sense of the crisis, learn-tech.io called on experts from around the world to help demystify COVID-19 in a short, practical course. COVID-19 Demystified has been developed for three key audiences. Firstly, the more than 1bn young people now shut out of classrooms who still seek education. Secondly, the wider public who are ‘drinking from a firehose’ of ‘news’. Information that frequently includes much disinformation and fake news. Thirdly, those decision makers and policy makers seeking to understand more about the challenges they face. Each of these audiences really needs opportunities to learn more about the pandemic both to protect their own lives and the lives of others. The scientific and mathematical complexity behind fighting COVID-19 means that many people lack tools to understand fully the impact of their own actions. Without such tools, misinformation and ignorance spread easily and can amplify negative effects of the pandemic. Those with no understanding of the science of the pandemic have sought to destroy 5G infrastructure, or adopt false cures bringing risk and harm to themselves. Some have adopted blame and hatred rather than nurtured their own understanding. The Demystification team hopes that this course will aid understanding and ultimately it will aid the fight against COVID-19. We all hope COVID 19 Demystified could be a key weapon in our fight against the pandemic and its effects.

School programs and classroom resources, all linked to the Australian Curriculum, and inspired by objects in the National Museum's collection. Book a school visit or see our free fun at home activities.

"Dyson engineers have designed these challenges specifically for children. Ideal for home or in the classroom, they encourage inquisitive young minds to get excited about engineering."

"We have used our experience from the James Dyson Foundation schools project to develop a series of free schemes of work for all schools wanting to teach a project-led Design and Technology curriculum."  https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.co.uk/resources/rethinking-design-and-technology-in-practice.html

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Bebras Mini Challenges Bebras Mini Challenges are shorter versions of the Bebras Challenge with a focus on a particular Computational Thinking skill. Bebras Mini Challenges, like Bebras 365, are available as a free, easy-access resource throughout the year. Bebras Mini Challenges and do not require a student or teacher login to access and students will receive a grade upon completion of the questions. These challenges are shorter than Bebras 365 with a focus on one particular Computational Thinking skill. Bebras Mini Challenges have been divided into three categories: primary school students, middle school students and senior secondary students.The primary category is recommended for students in years 3-5, middle school for students in years 6-8, and senior secondary for students in year 9 and above. These age groupings are a suggestion only, and we encourage students to challenge themselves by attempting different question sets.

ACMI Education will continue to support teacher and student learning around the screen, media and digital technologies. Keep learning with us by using our online modules and resources which can be shared with families at home. To stay in touch and find out when we add and share new content, programs and news you can: subscribe to our education enews follow us on Facebook and Twitter explore our monthly blog Perspectives""

Inclusive education CYDA as the co-chair of the Australian Coalition for Inclusive Education (ACIE) wrote to the Disability Royal Commission to raise with our collective concerns about the discrimination and neglect currently facing children and young people with disability during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the risk of increased violence and abuse. CYDA is convening weekly COVID-19 meetings with the ACIE and other disability advocates working with children and young people with disability and their families around Australia. ACIE has also developed a resource Learning at home during a time of crisis: COVID19 (Coronavirus). This resource has been developed to help parents support their children while schools are pupil free or closed in these uncertain times. This resource is to assist children and young people with disability and families to organise and plan for learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The STARportal makes the connections to STEM learning activities that inspire young people to explore, discover, and create.

The STARportal is Australia’s first centralised national portal for exciting and engaging STEM activities from around the country. This searchable database connects parents, students and teachers with their local and online STEM activities in real time.

The STARportal has been a collaboration between the Office of the Chief Scientist, Engineers Australia, Telstra, AMSI, BHP Billiton and the Commonwealth Bank, in consultation with the Department of Education to ensure all Australian families have access to any and all STEM outreach activities in their area and online.

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