Writers Toolbox |
Students in Years 4-12 have access to Writer's Toolbox (previously Write That Essay)Teachers Login using your email and password: TeacherStudents can login using their student email and password: Ambrose |
Storyline Online |
Videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. |
Quill |
Provides free literacy activities that build reading comprehension, writing, and language skills for elementary, middle, and high school students. |
Rewordify |
Editing resource |
Understanding Text Types |
Information relating to factual texts, literary texts, and persuasive texts. |
Literacy Shed |
The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources that has been collected by primary school teachers over 10 years. |
Pobble |
Engage and motivate your class with a free, ready-made writing prompt every day |
SMMRY |
SMMRY summarises text to save you time. |
Grammarly |
Grammarly helps you write mistake-free |
Read, Write, Think |
Classroom resources related to writing and reading |
365 Creative Writing Prompts |
Writing Prompts to help inspire you to write every single day. Use them for journaling, story starters, poetry, and more. |
Writing Exercises |
This site provides completely free writing prompts and exercises to help you get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks - as well as some fun anagram vocabulary games. |
How to Create a Fantasy World |
Learn how to create a fantasy world that feels real to readers. |
TED ED - Writer's Workshop |
Youtube playlist of TEDEd videos related to writing |
How to Write What You Want to Say |
A guide for students who know what they want to say but can't find the words |
National Geographic Education: Resource Library |
Thousands of extensive, authoritative resources are available on this K–12 website. The site is searchable by topic and can be filtered by subject area, content type and year level. |
World Online Newspapers |
Thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips |
QCAA - History |
Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority overview of the History curriculum |
QCAA - Geography |
Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority overview of the Geography curriculum |
AC History Lessons Archives |
Australian Curriculum Lessons is a free website for teachers and educators to access a vast range of lesson plans, teaching resources, posters, unit overviews and more |
Australian Human Rights Commission: Students |
Students are encourages to explore the concept of human rights, with a particular emphasis on children’s rights. Accompanying videos created for primary students delve into human rights relating to refugees, gender and identity, and people with disabilities. |
Literacy Pro |
Educator login for LITPRO. |
AC English Lesson Plans |
Australian Curriculum Lessons is a free website for teachers and educators to access a vast range of lesson plans, teaching resources, posters, unit overviews and more |
QCAA - English |
Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority overview of the English curriculum |
Richard Yaxley - For Teachers |
Teacher notes and information related to Richard Yaxley's writing |
CommonLit |
Excerpts from a variety of text types |
LitCharts |
To login: Teams - English Team - Files - General Resources - Litcharts password |
Shakespeare Unbound |
ABC Education and Bell Shakespeare have produced a video series of scenes from Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest and Hamlet. Additional content includes discussion points for each scene, a PDF synopsis for each play, and related links. |
Bible Gateway |
Bible Gateway is a searchable online Bible tool hosting more than 200 versions of the Bible in over 70 languages that you can freely read, research, and reference anywhere |
BCE - RE portal |
Brisbane Catholic Education Catholic Identity Site |
EREA |
Edmund Rice Education Australia |
Digital Technologies Hub |
Find resources to help teachers, students and families learn about Digital Technologies. |
Khan Academy: Science |
Courses related to different science subjects |
Khan Academy: Maths |
Courses related to different mathematics subjects |
GeoGebra 3D Calculator |
One of a series of graphing, geometry, and calculator apps from GeoGebra, this app is used to graph 3D functions, plot surfaces, and do 3D geometry. Results can be saved and shared. This free app is available to suit most devices |
Access Mars |
A joint development between Google and NASA, Access Mars enables users to explore a 3D replica of the planet’s surface as recorded by the Curiosity Rover. Key points regarding the geology of the surface are analysed |
Metazooa |
A daily puzzle in the vein of wordle. Your goal is to figure out today's Mystery Animal in as few guesses as possible. Wrong guesses will narrow down the answer by taxonomic rank (kingdom, phylum, class, order, etc.) The more your guess has in common with the answer, the more you will learn about the Mystery Animal. |
NMA Classroom Resources |
The National Museum of Australia offers teachers a significant array of online material and resources linked to the Australian Curriculum, and inspired by defining moments in Australian history or objects in their collection. |
Google Arts & Culture |
Google Arts & Culture works with cultural institutions and artists around the world to bring collections online, making them accessible to anyone. Explore gallaries and collections from around the world and check out games related to art and artists. |
Radiooooo |
One of the coolest music sites around. Explore music from around the world by choosing a country and a decade from the past 120 years. Alternate between fast, slow, and “weird” songs, to suit your mood. |
Accessing Resources on Videos |
Just where are those resources that are mapped to the curriculum? This tutorial shows you how to locate them. |
Study Guides |
The ATOM Study Guides are high quality teaching resources paired with documentaries, feature films, and other TV content that will strengthen the use of those programs in the classroom. |
Training Resources |
Presentation slides, Posters, lesson plans and teacher resource packs |
Pre-made Interactive Videos |
Many videos on ClickView will have pre-made Interactives that you can utilise rather than create your own from scratch. These can be edited or used as is. This tutorial will show you to identify which videos have pre-made Interactives. |
Creating Interactive Videos |
This video will walk you through the process of creating your own interactive using any video on ClickView. |
Sharing Interactive Videos with Students |
This video will show you how to share interactives with your students. |
ClickView |
Search our digital video library anytime and from anywhere. The collection is curated by ATC library staff and teachers. It is organised into subject and topic folders to make finding relevant video resources easy. |
Australian Screen |
Australian Screen is operated by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA). It contains information about and excerpts from a wide selection of Australian feature films, documentaries, television programs, newsreels, short films, animations, and home-movies produced over the last 100 years. |
Animoto |
Create professional videos |
Videoscribe |
A user-friendly animation tool. |
Canva |
Drag-and-drop videos from your device, record yourself, or use Canva's library of clips, audio, and animations to create an engaging video. |
ABC Education |
A fabulous range of educational resources for all subject areas to Year 10 |
ScreenPal |
Capture, create, share · Record your screen. Create screencast videos with this screen recorder. |
Tutor2U |
UK based resource for Humanities & STEM subjects [you will need to create a free logon] |
OneNote Tips |
Become an expert |
Microsoft Teams Training |
Training site |
Classroom Solutions |
This is a paid subscription that provides us with a weekly PowerPoint quiz (with answers) to use in your classroom. Based on Australian current affairs! |
Incredibox |
Incredibox is a music app that lets you create your own music with the help of a merry crew of beatboxers. Choose your musical style among 9 impressive atmospheres and start to lay down, record and share your mix. |
Kids News |
kid-friendly current affairs, a ready-to-go literacy resource for teachers |
Kahoot |
A game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. |
Twinkl |
The trusted home of teacher-created planning and assessment materials and teaching resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum. |
Artificial Intelligence Tools
Generative AI tools can be useful in range of ways, including assisting with skills in time management, organisation, creativity and problem-solving.
It is important to note that these tools should NOT be used to write, or produce, any part of your assessment response unless it has been explicitly required in your assessment task.
SciSpace is an incredible (AI-powered) tool to help you understand research papers better.
It can explain and elaborate most academic texts in simple words.
AI learning platform 'Quizziz'. It has multiple tools to make teaching fun, engaging and interactive. You can create gamified quizzes and lessons, host live activities or a range of topics.
AI writing tools constructs and reconstruct, paraphrase and summarise writing