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General
Supermarket Science - from Science and Plants for Schools, activities include Making an Eco Column, Portable Ponds, Isolations Towers for controlled experiments
Student Sheets - classroom ativities (not all primary level), from Science and Plants for Schools
PestWorld for Kids - from the National Pest Management Association. Includes interactive learning activities, lesson plans, activities sheets and information. Some areas of the web site contain information that is relevant only to USA but much of it can be used in Australia
What's Alive?
The Square of Life: Studies in Local and Global Environments - from the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). An Internet-based collaborative project in which students will investigate their local environment and share that information with other students from around the country and the world.
Bucket Buddies - a collaborative project from Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE)
The Great Plant Escape - online activities from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Includes teacher's guide
Mini Beasts - Travelbugs Mobile Mini-beasts education service
BugWise - from Australian Museum Online. The BugWise program has been designed to enable schools, Landcare Groups and land managers to get involved in ecological research. BugWise also provides an opportunity to test new methods of habitat assessment and develop a community focused habitat monitoring tool kit.
About Insects - from CSIRO. Contains educational activities and lesson plans
Animals - classroom resources for a unit of work on animals, from abcteach.com
Bugs - classroom resources for a unit of work on animals, from abcteach.com
Beautiful Beetles - a feature from Scribbly Gum, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Spiders Spin Out - a feature from Scribbly Gum, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Insects and Spiders Gallery - printable pdf files for classroom activities from Learning Page.com
Insects and Bugs Coloring Pages - from DLTK's Printable Crafts For Kids
Bugasaurus Explorus - from NSW Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources, teachers resources inlcude curriculum links for Stages 2 - 4, colouring-in page and certificate
Food chains and Food webs
Food Webs - from Gould League. Introduction to various food webs
How plants and animals are suited to their environment
Inheritance and environment
Activity: What Your Genes Do - a lesson plan from CSIRO
Human Genetics: Worldwide Search for the Dominant Trait - a collaborative project from Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). Contains activities and teacher guides.
Classification
Classifying things - a classroom activity from Science by Email, CSIRO
Cross-curriculum focus
Beastly Garden of Wordy Delights - table of common living things with plural, collective Noun, Gender and Offspring, from Melissa Kaplan's Herp Care Collection (USA)