PDF Resources
OpenSTEM® Resource PDFs provide the basic materials for our curriculum implementations. Our teacher and student materials (in the Teacher Bundles category) refer to these.
You can also use them to create your own lesson plan. We also include Activities here.
Items in this Category are available for FREE for subscribers. It is a special grouped category containing all PDF resources from all other categories.
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Resource: Explorers in Africa and South America
$0.00This resource lists some of the more well-known explorers of Africa and South America between the 15th and 18th centuries, as a complement to the Year 4 Australian Curriculum for History and Geography.
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Resource: Explorers in Asia
$0.00This resource lists some of the more well-known explorers of Asia, as a complement to the Year 6 Geography National Curriculum.
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Resource: Explorers in North America
$0.00This resource lists some of the more well-known explorers of North America, as a complement to the Year 5 Geography National Curriculum.
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Activity: Ancient Sailing Ships
$9.00The Ancient Sailing Ships Activity is designed to complement the Year 4, 5 and 6 ‘Explorers’ units, whilst addressing aspects of the Science curriculum.
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Activity: Aunt Madge’s Suitcase
$25.00Aunt Madge is travelling around the world, and has forgotten one of her suitcases! Figure out where in the world she is, so you can take the suitcase to her.
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Activity: Building A Humpy
$3.00This resource explains how to build an Aboriginal shelter, sometimes known as a “humpy”.
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Activity: Building Stonehenge
$2.00Activity building a model of Stonehenge.
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Activity: Class Calendar
$2.00The Class Calendar Activity provides a 2019 calendar – one month per landscape A4 page.
This resource can be used by any class, but aligns particularly with the Australian Curriculum History, Geography, Civics and Citizenship and HASS for Foundation (Prep) to Year 3.
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Activity: Grouping Categories
$4.00Grouping items into categories is often used in mathematics and of course everyday life, but also in computer programming! In this activity, we explore the concept of Grouping, which is not the same as Sorting.
This activity has variations which make it suited for all of the Primary year levels.
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Activity: Growing a Plant
$8.00This resource guides growing a plant as a Scientific Investigation.
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Activity: History of Electricity
$15.00This resource provides a brief overview of the history of electricity and human’s experiments with it since the days of Antiquity, as well as a set of 6 experiments which can be done in class.
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Activity: Ice Ages and Mud Bricks
$7.00Activity to investigate scientifically the processes of freezing and thawing water, and potential effects on the landscape; as well as the processes and technology involved in making mud bricks. A model answers PDF is included for teachers.
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Activity: My Family
$2.00This resource, aimed at the youngest students, provides a paper doll cut-out template for use in a colouring-in activity by students to help them describe their family. Students can colour in one doll to represent each member of their family and the teacher can assist the students to display these in the form of a family tree.
This activity aligns with the Australian Curriculum History, Geography and HASS for Foundation (Prep).
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Activity: Planets of the Solar System
$12.00Resource covering the planets and moons of our solar system, their discovery and exploration, and much more information and images.
Also contains an (outside) activity for exploring orbits.
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Activity: Running a Class Election
$8.00This activity is designed to give students a first-hand example of Australian democracy, whilst exploring some of the historical aspects of our democratic process, including the use of secret ballot, ballot boxes, election officers and preferential voting.
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Activity: Shadows and Light
$4.00Activity to investigate shadows, reflection and refraction in the context of the History and Geography material.
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Aunt Madge's Suitcase was a really fun activity! The children were really interested in all the places she travelled to,…
Indi Alford, Teacher