Articles, pictures, worksheets, quizzes and much more on International Women's Day and Harmony Week.
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - MARCH 8
HARMONY WEEK - MARCH 18 - 24
HARMONY DAY - MARCH 21
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Learn about many important and interesting jobs that people do. We see some people doing jobs in our community every day. Your neighbourhood is a community. So is your city or town. But there are also workers whom we do not see very often. What kind of work would you like to do when you grow up? Throughout history, women have generally had fewer opportunities to succeed in careers than men. Today, women have a better chance to succeed. Here are some ideas!
FEATURED CONTENT
• House-to-House-Worker
• Jobs That Protect People
• Health Professionals
• Engineers
• Lawmakers and Lawyers
• Accountant
• Bus Driver
• Chef
• Farmer
• Plumber
• Scientist
• Teacher
• Utility Workers
GAMES
• Concentration: Jobs to Do
• True or False: People at work
• Concentration: Community helpers
STORIES
• When I Grow Up
FAIRY TALES AND FABLES
• Mulan
To save her ailing father from serving in the Imperial Army, a fearless young woman disguises herself as a man to battle northern invaders in China.
ACTIVITES
Colouring:
• Artist
• Bus driver
• Firefighter
• Draw Your Own Picture
Mazes:
• Taxi drivers
• Baker
• Construction worker
• Pilot
WORKSHEETS (Word)
• House-to-House-Worker
• Jobs That Protect People
• Health Professionals
• Engineers
• Lawmakers and Lawyers
• Accountant
• Bus Driver
• Chef
• Farmer
• Plumber
• Scientist
• Teacher
• Utility Workers
STORIES: WORLD’S DIFFERENT CULTURES
FEATURED STORIES
As you go through the books, tell your students about the wealth of plants and animals found in various environments, and also talk about the world’s different cultures.
• Trek Learns to Fly (Northern Europe)
• Trek Learns About Colours (South America)
• Trek Learns About Numbers (India)
• Trek Learns About Size (Africa)
• Trek Learns About Shapes (China)
• Trek Learns About Sounds (Thailand)
• Trek Learns About Place (Southwest Asia)
• Trek Learns About Taste and Smell (Canada)
• Trek Learns About Moving Around (Australia)
• Trek Learns About Texture (Italy)
• Trek Learns About Opposites (United Kingdom and Ireland)
• Trek Learn About Time (Mexico)
LESSON PLANS
• Trek Learns to Fly
• Trek Learns About Colours
• Trek Learns About Numbers
• Trek Learns About Size
• Trek Learns About Shapes
• Trek Learns About Sounds
• Trek Learns About Place
• Trek Learns About Taste and Smell
• Trek Learns About Moving Around
• Trek Learns About Texture
• Trek Learns About Opposites
• Trek Learn About Time
WORKSHEETS
• Trek Learns to Fly
• Trek Learns About Colours
• Trek Learns About Numbers
• Trek Learns About Size
• Trek Learns About Shapes
• Trek Learns About Sounds
• Trek Learns About Place
• Trek Learns About Taste and Smell
• Trek Learns About Moving Around
• Trek Learns About Texture
• Trek Learns About Opposites
• Trek Learns About Time
ACTIVITIES
Colouring:
Draw a picture to celebrate that everyone belongs.
• Draw your own picture
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – MARCH 8
Its purpose is to recognise women’s cultural, economic, political, and social achievements. It also promotes women’s rights and gender equality.
IMPORTANT PEOPLE
Use Important People feature in Kids to search for courageous and influential women from history and present day.
Search Important People
ARTICLES
• International Women’s Day
• Woman Suffrage
• Women’s Movement
Women’s Movement
• Vida Goldstein
• Henrietta Dugdale
• Annie Lowe
Civil Rights Leaders
• Daisy Bates
• Lowitja O’Donoghue
• Caroline Chisholm
• Henrietta Dugdale
Aviators
• Nancy Bird
Sports
• Cathy Freeman
• Ash Barty
• Evonne Goolagong Cawley
• Emma McKeon
Doctors, Nurses, Researchers
• Fiona Stanley
• Fiona Wood
• Suzanne Cory
• Priscilla Kincaid-Smith
Explorers
• Jessica Watson
• Caroline Creaghe
Inventors
• Marita Cheng
Business Leaders
• Tan Le
• Marita Cheng
• Gail Kelly
Painters
• Judy Cassab
Political Leaders
• Julia Gillard
• Quentin Bryce
Religious Leaders
• Saint Mary MacKillop
Judges and Justices
• Pat O’Shane
• Susan Kiefel
Musicians, Composers and Singers
• Dame Nellie Melba
• Dame Joan Sutherland
• Kylie Minogue
• Olivia Newton-John
Scientists
• Dorothy Hill
• Helen Newton Turner
• Irene Crespin
• Suzanne Cory
• Fiona Stanley
• Fiona Wood
Authors
• Miles Franklin
• Mavis Thorpe Clark
• Pamela Allen
• Dame Mary Gilmore
• Mem Fox
• May Gibbs
• Katharine Susannah Prichard
• Ursula Dubosarsky
• Hesba Fay Brinsmead
• Christina Stead
• Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson
• Melina Marchetta
• Nan Chauncy
• Alison Lester
• Judith Wright
• Patricia Wrightson
• Lilith Norman
• Hesba Fay Brinsmead
• Kate Grenville
• Louisa Atkinson
• Mary Grant Bruce
• Catherine Helen Spence
• Ethel Turner
• Jill Ker Conway
• P. L. Travers
Actors, Directors
• Jennifer Hawkins
• Naomi Watts
• Cate Blanchett
• Nicole Kidman
• Margot Robbie
WORKSHEETS:
• Australian Female Authors
HARMONY WEEK – MARCH 18 – 24
During Harmony Week, Australians show appreciation and respect for people of all different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
FOCUS ON A COUNTRY
ARTICLES
• Harmony Day
• Languages
• Aboriginal Peoples of Australia
• Culture
SOUND
• Australian Aboriginal traditional music
COMPARE COUNTRIES
Have your students pick a country and compare with Australia. Search for pictures of the country’s terrain, cultural dress and foods and discuss these with the class.
Search Compare Places
WORKSHEETS
• Harmony Day
• Compare Places
TIMELINES
Learning more about our family history helps us to understand more about who we are, where we come from and our connection to the world.
• Create a timeline
Have your students build a family history timeline about the people in your family and their heritage.
• How to create a timeline
Arts
Investigate some of the many techniques used by artists that have been drawn from different cultures such as dot painting, batik, mosaics, papier-mâché, and origami.
• Bark Painting
Indigenous Australians used art to print stories on cave walls and rocks. Have your students tell a story about their life or an event they witnessed based on the style of Aboriginal art.
Aboriginal Rock Art activity
• Batik
The way of making batik began in Indonesia. Have your students make their own batik handkerchief to learn about this unique way of putting colour design on a cloth.
Bati-Kerchiefs activity
• Mosaic
Have your students learn about mosaics by reading the article and then making their own mosaic from coloured paper.
Make Your Own Mosaic Lesson Plan
• Origami
Have your students can make paper dolls using this origami technique popular in China and Japan.
Origami Dolls Lesson Plan
• Papier-mâché
Have your students build an original mask out of newspaper strips with easy to follow instructions courtesy of Activity Corner.
Papier-Mâché Mask activity
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – MARCH 8
International Women’s Day serves to recognise and celebrate women’s cultural, economic, political, and social achievements and to promote women’s rights and gender equality. Today IWD is celebrated in more than 100 countries.
REMARKABLE WOMEN
ARTICLES
General
• International Women’s Day
• Sex Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment
• Women’s Movement
• Women’s Suffrage
Women’s rights leaders
• Henrietta Dugdale
• Vida Goldstein
• Annie Lowe
Actors and directors
• Cate Blanchett
• Nicole Kidman
• Naomi Watts
Civil Rights Leaders
• Daisy Bates
• Caroline Chisholm
• Lowitja O’Donoghue
Aviators
• Nancy Bird
Sports
• Ash Barty
• Kay Cottee
• Dawn Fraser
• Cathy Freeman
• Stephanie Gilmore
• Evonne Goolagong Cawley
• Lauren Jackson
• Emma McKeon
• Nova Peris
• Samantha Stosur
• Ariarne Titmus
• Jessica Watson
WOMEN IN SCIENCE
Australian Scientists
• Lucy Meredith Bryce
• Helen Mary Caldicott
• Elizabeth Kenny
• Priscilla Kincaid-Smith
• Jean Macnamara
• Bridget Ogilvie
• Fiona Stanley
• Fiona Wood
• Isobel Ida Bennett
• Elizabeth Helen Blackburn
• Stella Grace Maisie Carr
• Suzanne Cory
• Irene Crespin
• Jennifer Ann Marshall Graves
• Dorothy Hill
• Georgiana Molloy
• Helen Newton Turner
• Ruby Payne-Scott
• Michelle Yvonne Simmons
Australian Inventors
• Marita Cheng
TIMELINES
• Women’s Firsts in the Modern Era
WEBQUEST
• Women in Science
BIOGRAPHY CENTRE
Use the Biography Centre feature to search for courageous and influential women from history and present day.
HARMONY WEEK – MARCH 18 – 24
It is a week for Australians to show appreciation and respect for people of all different cultural and ethnic backgrounds who have made Australia their home.
HARMONY WEEK
ARTICLES
• Harmony Day
• White Australia Policy
• Immigration
• Culture
Science
Examine the scientific principles underlying traditional Australian Indigenous technologies.
• Boomerang
Languages
• Language
• Australian Aboriginal languages
• Some languages of the world
WORKSHEETS
• Harmony Day
• Immigration to Australia Pre 1900
• Immigration to Australia Post 1900
TIMELINES
Learning more about our family history helps us to understand more about who we are, where we come from and our connection to the world. It also teaches us about the past and how the world has changed.
• Family History – Timeline activity
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – MARCH 8
Your World Book eBook platform includes biographies about many women who have and are currently challenging stereotypes and bias to empower women and make a positive difference for women worldwide.
REMARKABLE WOMEN
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WOMEN WHO ROCK
• Alex Morgan
• Bethany Mota
• Demi Lovato
• Malala Yousafzai
• Misty Copeland
• Taylor Swift
BIOGRAPHIC CONNECTIONS
• Elizabeth Blackwell: with profiles of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Susan La Flesche Picotte
• Golda Meir: with profiles of David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin
TRUE OR FALSE?
• Remarkable Women
DOCUMENTING HISTORY
• Women’s Right to Vote
HOW I CHANGED THE WORLD
• Susan B Anthony
• Margaret Bourke-White
• Frida Kahla
• Wangari Maathai
OUT OF THIS WORLD
• Fusion-Powered Spacecraft (with NASA inventor Stephanie Thomas)
• Martian Cave Colonies (with NASA inventor Penny Boston)
• Printable Probes and Cosmic Confetti (with NASA inventor Kendra Short)
• Second-Skin Space Suit (with NASA inventor Dava Newman)
Worksheets
• Printable Probes
• Women at NASA
WORLD CLASSICS
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (by Mary Wollstonecraft)
• Herland (by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
• The Yellow Wallpaper (by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
• Concerning Children (by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
HARMONY WEEK – MARCH 18 – 24
Introduce students to amazing people, cultures and foods in an interactive and educational way.
CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD
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AYO’S AWESOME ADVENTURES
• Beijing: Capital of China
• Buenos Aires: City of Fair Winds
• Cape Town: Mother City
• Chicago: The Windy City
• London: City on the Thames
• New York: The Big Apple
• Rabat: Capital of Morocco
• St. Petersburg: City of Bridges
• Sydney: Harbour City
• Vancouver: Gateway to the Pacific
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NORRIE EXPLORES
• Beijing
• Buenos Aires
• Cape Town
• Chicago
• London
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ABORIGINAL PEOPLES OF AUSTRALIA
• Aboriginal Peoples of Australia
• Myths and Legend
• Aboriginal Rights Movement
Worksheets
• Aboriginal Peoples of Australia
Quizzes
• Aboriginal Peoples of Australia
