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v Australian Museum: []. This resource gives students the opportunity to hear stories of the history and culture of Australia’s Indigenous people. These are the stories that have being told through the generations since the beginning of time. This website gives information about the Dreamtime stories from the following states and territories: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. In this topic, students need to be able to identify the importance of the Dreamtime stories for the Aboriginal people. This website provides a direct link to specific stories that students can study and gain information from. v Aboriginal Art Online: [|www.aboriginalartonline.com]. This resource gives specific examples of the artwork produced by aboriginal people. In this topic, students learn about the importance of the traditional paintings and how the stories of the Dreamtime are told through art. This website also provides information on the Kimberly region of Western Australia and their traditional paintings. This information will assist students in their classwork as they learn about this specific region and its Indigenous art. v Indigenous Australia: [|www.indigenousaustralia.info/the-dreaming.html]. This website provides students with the opportunity to explore the various aspects of the Aboriginal people, specifically their culture, languages, social structure, the land, food and the Dreaming. This website gives students a wide variety of information and sources on these aspects that they can use to further extend their knowledge and understanding of the origins of the continent from an aboriginal perspective. This website would also help students to investigate the origins of The Dreaming which will assist them in classroom activities. v Intute – World map: []. This website provides students with an interactive world map that can be used to describe and discover the specific areas of Australia and the world. In using this website, students can describe the locations of the main islands near Australia and use this to further their knowledge of the Australian continent. v Latitude and Longitude: [|http://www.whatsmygps.com]. This website gives students the opportunity to work out the locations of various countries they are studying. This is a useful website for students to use as they can use technology to learn about the Australian continent. This website also gives students the chance to learn more about latitude and longitude and how this allows us to locate any place on Earth. As this topic is being studied by stage 5 students, who have their own laptops, this website could be easily accessed in the classroom and used in the students’ curriculum. v Continental Drift: []. This resource helps students understand the origins of the Continent from a geographical perspective. As students learn about this in the topic, students can use this website to develop their understanding of the key words they are learning. This website also includes diagrams to demonstrate the Earth’s crust which enables students to view how the earth was formed. This resource can also develop students’ understanding of fold and fault mountains as it demonstrates how these occurred and the reasons why tectonic plates movements cause issues in the environment. This resource would be benefical to visual learners as it contains graphs, diagrams and tables to convey the information. v Sea level and Climate: []. This website allows students to distinguish the relationship between climate and global sea levels. Through this resource, students learn to further develop their knowledge of the impacts of changing climates and sea levels. It contains visual aids and tables to explain to the viewer the information they are learning about. v Google: [|www.google.com.au]. ﻿This website is a usual search engine for students to use when they are studying this unit of work. It gives students the opportunity to explore the world wide web and discover how they can use the information that they find. Google also helps students develop an understanding of how useful some websites can be, as it provides a wide variety of information on any specific topic. When using this search engine, students need to be aware that the information they find is not always correct, and sometimes it may take more than one search to find the informatuion they require.