Thinkdrive takes great pride in our partnerships with our esteemed education colleagues. These collaborations allow us to offer a diverse range of the high-quality resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum, which play a critical role in supporting effective teaching and learning.
Science Resources
Experimentary (Opens external link in new window) develops hands-on investigative Science experiments, which we have sourced for Thinkdrive K-6 across all four Science fields:
Biological Sciences
Chemical Sciences
Earth and Space Sciences
Physical Sciences
Dr Rob Bell, a former CSIRO scientist and host of the science TV show Scope, and co-founder of experimentary, presents 3 x short videos for each experiment.
For each of the 18 science experiments there are also supporting materials.
Includes: Risk assessment, lesson intention, success criteria, materials list and alignment codes to the Australian curriculum.
Includes: Aim, prediction, materials list, testing procedure, results tables, reflection and conclusion.
Includes: Experiment summary, discussion of the scientific concepts and how it relates to the real world.
Literacy Resources
Logonliterancy (Opens external link in new window) provides activities that improve student literacy. Patricia Hipwell, best-selling author and literacy consultant, has provided activities across the following six literacy areas for thinkdrive:
Vocabulary
Reading
Sentences
Research, summarising and Notemaking
Writing
Punctuation
Readilearn (Opens external link in new window) specialises in online resources for teachers educating students aged 5-7. Founded by Norah Colvin, a former teacher and writer for Educational Department, readilearn has provide over 250 resources on Thinkdrive in the following areas:
Literacy
Mathematics
Humanities & Social Sciences
The Arts
Health & Physical Education
The Supportive Classroom
ArtEdventures (Opens external link in new window) creates specialist visual arts and art consulting services for primary and secondary schools. Tahlia Megele, ArtEdventures Founder, creates superb Visual Arts resources embraces critical and creative thinking, ignites curiosity and knowledge of artistic expression.
Each of the Visual Arts resources have the following support materials:
Lesson Plan PDF
Lesson Plan Doc
Power Point
Video
Livestream Safari Resource
Vyatra delivers real-time educational incursions of special global places from the curriculum straight into classrooms. Their offerings engage students in a highly interactive and memorable real-time adventure.
A real-time African Safari during class!
Livestream from the Ol Kinyei Conservancy in the Maasai Mara region, Kenya
Curriculum Links
- Year 4 & 5 Geography: The importance of environments (AC9HS4K05). The influence of people on the characteristics of a place (AC9HS5K04).
- Year 4 & 5 Biological Sciences: The roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers (AC9S4U01). The structural features and behaviours of living things (AC9S5U01).
- Year 6 Biological Sciences: The physical conditions of a habitat and analyse how the growth and survival of living things is affected by changing physical conditions (AC9S5U01).
How much does it cost?
ITC exclusive offer: $13.50 per student (ex GST), $675 minimum
(Normal price: $15 per student ex-GST, with $750 minimum per session)
How to Book?
Click the button below to get in touch with the vyatra team!
Partner with us
We are always looking to partner with our colleagues in the education sector to provide high quality resources to students globally. If you would like to learn more about how your organisation can partner with us to grow your audience and improve teaching and learning, please get in touch.