Australian Celebrations
| Australia Day:- Table of contents include: What's on; About Australia Day; National symbols; Kids; Teachers; Your celebration; Australia Day Ambassadors; Australian of the Year awards. The teacher resource section provides details about resources that have been delivered to Australian schools over recent times. The kids section contains some great games. |
| Australia Day:- A site with loads of information about Australia day including the history, what's on, student activities and loads more. |
| Festivals in Australia:- From the Australian Government Culture and Recreation portal a comprehensive list with links to all major festivals in Australia. |
| Indigenous Celebrations:- This page provides information about Indigenous celebrations and festivals. |
| Melbourne Cup Day:- From the Australian Government Culture and Recreation portal information about that one day in November when all Australia stops for this famous race. Including history and information about some of the winning horses. |
| National NAIDOC - What is NAIDOC:- From the official NAIDOC website learn all about NAIDOC week, including the history; activities; competitions and more. |
Australian Celebrations - Study and teaching
| Australia Day:- Australia Day: Celebrate What’s Great Celebrate the people, the land, indigenous cultures and the great diversity of our nation. Celebrate the Australian traditions of freedom and democracy. Celebrations across the nation include ferry races, aerial displays, street parades, marches, luncheons, cricket matches, and even thong throwing! Use this unit before or after the Day or anytime that suits. |
| Australia Day:- Australia Day: Celebrate What’s Great Additional Activities. More great ideas and activities to support and extend the unit. An 8 page pdf file for the Celebration of Australia Day. |
Australian Celebrations - Webquests
| Aussie, Aussie, Aussie:- Australia has a number of Special Days which are celebrated to remember an event or happening from the past. |
| Australia Day Scavenger Hunt:- 26 January is Australia Day. Why do we celebrate Australia Day? How do we celebrate? What is important to Australians? After finding the items in this scavenger hunt you will know more about Australia and Australians. |
Australian Celebrations - Classroom activities
| Australia Day - Activity sheets for kids:- Part of the Australia Day site, these activity sheets include: Colouring in sheets; Flag activities; State and floral emblems; Puzzles; Cut and paste; Crosswords; Find a word; How well do you know Australia?; Join the dots. All availabe in pdf format. |