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This website covers a broad variety of subjects and year levels, all linked to AC, ready to use.It can be used by:teachers to guide and plan learning families to work with their children, orsenior students for independent study.

This teaching resource helps students to learn and share ideas about Indigenous Australian music. It will help families and teachers to authentically present examples of Indigenous Australian music in education.

Art In Motion is a free, innovative online teaching and learning resource designed for primary school students. It's also useful for lower secondary school students.

The Kennedy Centre website features a vast range of free quality arts lesson and unit plans for teachers to use on a wide variety of topics. It is suitable for teacher planning from Reception to Year 10, and covers all the art areas: Dance, Drama, Visual Arts, Media Arts, and Visual Arts.

This website contains a variety of creative activities based on popular BBC children's television programs like 'Sarah and Duck', 'Hey Duggee', 'Go Jetters', 'Charlie and Lola' and 'Andy's Dinosaur Adventures'.Activities include puppet making, singalongs, games, puzzles, recipes and visual art ideas.

A free website to create music through simple, fun, hands-on experiments.

In this introduction to classical music, students from reception to year 6 can explore games, instruments of the orchestra, musical dictionaries, podcasts, tips and music resources.

ARTS:LIVE provides extensive lesson plans and interactive learning materials that cross over a wide range of subject areas including science, maths and literacy. Students of all ages can use ARTS:LIVE to explore, learn and develop their arts and music skills from anywhere in the world.

Fun activities that combine dance with learning in science. The resource includes detailed descriptions of activities for home or use in the classroom.

These four websites explore the world of creating digital art for younger students. To begin the projects, parent supervision and assistance is recommended.

Learn to make shadow puppets and tell the story of the dinosaurs in your own play.

Families and teachers can access 7 free and engaging educational resources provided by the Australian Children's Television Foundation. These include 'Hardball', 'Mustangs FC', and the 'Little Lunch' TV series and app.

This resource includes fifty five creative ideas for families to do together.

An online interactive website that provides engaging movement and mindfulness videos. The website also has apps for download with options to help keep students moving and active.

Groove Pizza lets you play different rhythms using mathematical concepts like shapes, angles and patterns. It's a circular rhythm app made by the NYU Music Experience Design Lab (MusEDLab).

Explore how sound is made with these fun activities, and make your own sounds with different types of household items. Students in reception and year one may need a helper for some of the tasks.

Create plays with this free iPad app featuring a library of 8 animated fairytale characters and 5 background scenes. Children could use the app to:retell a story or event take photos to create new backgrounds to help retell events create short stories.

A great online resource portal of a wide variety of engaging songs, activities and games from around the world. The website includes some video clips and music tracks, and all have English translations.

A free downloadable e-book of music technology resources, including websites, software and more.

This resource is designed for students and teachers of drama, English and literacy. It provides a free, on demand digital recording of author Jessica Townsend reading two of her books: 'WunderSmith' and 'Nevermoor' (approximately 45 minutes).Teachers can use this resource including information, activities and worksheets to guide and plan learning, or families can use this

Connected to the Tate gallery, this website hosts a variety of materials that teachers can use in their planning, and families can also use with students.

This directory of 500+ art and craft activities will give families and students many ideas, information, and inspiration to enjoy and share art at home or in the classroom.

The Australian Ballet's website explores many famous ballets in the company's repertoire. It also has short videos of warm up routines for a range of age groups. All teacher resources are downloadable.

Access a huge range of Visual Arts and Design lessons. Students and families can use this site together to engage in a range of visual art activities, but teachers should guide the choice of lesson to align with a particular purpose or intention.