IDEAS (Innovative and Dynamic Educational Activities for Schools) is a set of free downloadable resources for Australian classrooms. Each IDEAS resource features a curriculum context, a learning sequence and reproducible worksheet/s. A new IDEAS resource will be added to the website each term.

Defending a nation
Level: Middle Years
Curriculum Area: SOSE / Citizenship
This resource encourages students to explore attitudes towards the right of governments
to compel citizens to join the armed forces, and the responsibility of citizens to serve, in
times of conflict. more...

Developing cultural sensitivity in the classroom
Level: 5-10
Curriculum area: SOSE, Values Education
This resource provides a short learning sequence that focuses on developing cultural sensitivity and intercultural understanding. more...

Acknowledgement of Country
Level: All Years
Curriculum Area: Cross-curriculum
This activity encourages students to develop a respect for, and understanding of, Indigenous protocols used in the community. more...

A nation of many cultures
Level: Middle years
Curriculum Area: SOSE / Values Education
This resource encourages students to explore attitudes towards different cultural groups in the Australian community. more...

Is it alright to steal if it makes you feel good?
Level: Lower Primary
Curriculum Area: Cross-Curriculum
This resource will introduce young students to the philosophical skills of inquiry and
reasoning. more...

What was it like learning maths when you were at school?
Level: Middle Years
Curriculum Area: Numeracy
This resource allows students to explore what their parents remember about their experience
of learning maths at school, and how maths is relevant to them in their lives now. more...

Who Cares?
Level: Middle Years
Curriculum Area: Cross-curriculum
This resource encourages students to critically analyse the way that values are embedded in
the images that surround us. more...