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• What is this bug? A guide to common invertebrates of New Zealand
  • This browseable website provides simple illustrations and text to help identify different insects and is relevant for both Australia and New Zealand. It provide pictures and initial information about the most frequently asked-about invertebrates. The content may be copied for personal, non-profit or educational purposes provided that the source is acknowledged.
• International Year of the Potato 2008: For schools
  • These activities, provided by Horticulture New Zealand, will take children on a potato discovery adventure giving them an understanding of the importance of potatoes for themselves and also to both local and global communities. The website includes teacher's notes, posters, templates, instructions for growing potatoes in a bucket, and classroom cooking.
• Welfare payments and school attendance: An analysis of experimental policy in Indigenous education
  • Making the welfare payments of Indigenous people conditional on measures such as their children's school attendance is becoming an increasingly popular policy measure in Australia. This paper canvasses the current trials linking welfare payments to school attendance and outlines what evaluations have indicated about such schemes to date. It then provides an analysis of key concerns about the approach - namely its lack of basis in evidence, the fact that measures introduced under such schemes do ...
• Cat: e-book
  • An online version of the 2008 Children's Book Week shortlisted text by Mike Dumbleton.
• Conference papers: 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference: Families through life
  • This conference proceedings page provides a list of presenters at the 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference (AIFS) July 2008, with links to abstracts and available papers. The five major themes are: Family relationships; Children, youth and patterns of Care; Families and work; Families and community life; and Violence and protection issues.
• Indigenous early learning and care
  • A review of what works in Indigenous early learning and care in Australia illustrates that while Indigenous-specific services are thought by many to best deliver culturally safe and strong care, there are examples of promising practice among mainstream early intervention programs adapted for Indigenous children and their families. Characteristics of culturally safe programs are described, and practical descriptions of culturally appropriate practice provided to guide policy-makers and service pr...
• Early childhood education and care in Sweden
  • In Sweden, all children are considered to be entitled to a preschool place. In 1996 the government moved responsibility for child care from the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs to the Ministry of Education and Science as part of an effort to reform and expand early childhood education and care. Sweden continues its commitment to a child care system that is designed to meet the twin aims of supporting early childhood education and promoting gender equality. This issue file provides selected ...
• National Symposium on Early Childhood Science and Policy
  • The National Symposium on Early Childhood Science and Policy was designed to build leadership capacity in the United States for developing and implementing science-based policies that enhance children's learning, behaviour, and health. Webcast recordings of select presentations are available from this site.
• Family factsheets: Translations
  • Family Factsheets provide families with information about aspects of child care, including advice and tips that will assist families to prepare for child care and to recognise quality child care practice. Translated factsheets are available in: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, Filipino, Greek, Indonesian, Koran, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese.
• Yulunga: Traditional Indigenous games
  • Yulunga is an online activity resource of over 100 traditional Indigenous games created to provide all Australians with an opportunity to learn about, appreciate and experience aspects of Indigenous culture. Suitable for children and adults of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, Yulunga can be used in schools around Australia as an educational resource and as a guide to inclusive, structured sport within communities. Included are: bat and ball games, hide and seek games, inside games, other gam...
• CBeebies: Something special
  • This BBC website for young children includes some simple games (including a painting game), stories (Hansel and Gretel), and songs (Old Macdonald). It makes use of signs and sign language.
• Beginning a life in Australia
  • The Beginning a Life in Australia booklets welcome newly-arrived migrants and humanitarian entrants to Australia. They provide useful national, state/territory and local settlement information for migrants, humanitarian entrants, their sponsors and service providers, including education information e.g. child care, schools, enrolment, English programs, vocational education and universities. The booklets are available in 37 community languages for each state and territory.
• Education Tax Refund: Fact sheet
  • As announced in the 2008-09 Budget, families will be able to claim a 50 per cent Education Tax Refund from 1 July 2008. The aim of the Education Tax Refund is to help families meet the costs of educating their children and ensure that they have access to the resources needed to improve educational outcomes. Eligible families will be able to claim a 50 per cent refund every year for eligible education expenses up to: $750 for each child undertaking primary studies (maximum refundable tax offset o...
• WikiREADia: everything starts with reading
  • Wikireadia is a searchable and editable online encyclopaedia of good practice in reading. This site shares ideas and case studies in reading for all audiences (whether that is young children, adult learners, readers in the workplace or setting up a library). Wikireadia is written collaboratively by reading professionals from all across the UK and beyond. Its purpose it to provide a place where good practice in reading is recognised and shared to provide inspiration. This website has been develop...
• International Reading Association: Teaching Tools
  • The International Reading Association provides online resources for use in the home or the classroom, to encourage reading and develop literacy skills. Created and collected by experienced educators (or, in the case of Choices booklists, by experienced kids) they're designed to make your teaching task a little easier and a lot more effective. The detailed, research-based lesson plans and activities are available from Kindergarten up to year 12.
• Flexible school for early childhood education in Italy
  • This Program on Educational Building article describes the design of a flexible school for early childhood eduction in Milan, Italy, taking into account children's development and the different ways they experience space according to their age. The facilities will include not only a nursery school and kindergarten, but also a drop-in day-care centre, a play centre and outdoor areas to develop the senses.
• Adelaide Thinkers in Residence: Fraser Mustard
  • Dr Fraser Mustard is an internationally recognised expert in the field of early childhood development and has led the growth of interest in this critical area. Dr Mustard lived and worked in South Australia as an Adelaide Thinker in Residence during 2006 and 2007. His final report 'Investing in the Early Years: Closing the gap between what we know and what we do' as well as a detailed companion document, 'Early Childhood Development: The best start for all South Australians' are available to dow...
• Through the Looking Glass
  • The Through the Looking Glass (TtLG) Project is a health, education and welfare collaborative early intervention strategy that utilizes the existing infrastructure and universality of five child care settings across Australia to intervene with families where there is an identified compromised attachment relationship between the parent and child/children. The Project is designed to achieve specific outcomes for parents, children and child care staff. The TtLG project is based on Attachment Theory...
• Find out about plants with Zip the bee
  • This interactive activity provides information about the different parts of a plant, the plant life cycle and pollination. A multiple choice quiz is also provided.
• Issue Analysis: Child care and the labour supply
  • Child care is said to increase female labour-force participation and therefore economic growth. This paper seeks to verify the claims about child care and female labour supply. It includes four major findings: child-care usage has grown markedly; the cost of child care has risen at a greater rate than inflation; each new injection of government funding has been followed by an escalation in the cost of child care; there is only a weak relationship between the cost of child care and female labour ...
• Tasmanian Early Years Foundation
  • The Tasmanian Early Years Foundation supports and promotes the wellbeing, development and learning of Tasmanian children up to the age of 6 years. As a non-profit organisation, the Foundation will build on core government recurrent funding by seeking public donations and forming sponsorship partnerships with corporations to increase the funding available for early childhood initiatives.