Resource Library
Ready-to-go classroom activities, worksheets, videos, and other resources
Note: External links provided on this site are for your information and convenience only, and do not indicate an endorsement by Port Macquarie-Hastings Council. It is recommended you check for relevance, accuracy and appropriateness before using in your classroom or school.
Quick Links:
Don’t forget to sign up to our schools newsletter, Stay ConnectEd, for updates on new resources and opportunities!
Waste Education
ConnectEd Kids 'Waste Warriors' E-learning
Other Waste Education Resources
Waste video library
More videos can be found on our Waste & Recycling playlist on Council’s YouTube channel.
Water Education
ConnectEd Kids 'Water Whiz' E-learning platform!
Find fun activities and resources to help you learn about why our water is precious and how you can play your part in making every drop count, so that together, we can make sure we have enough clean water now and into our future!
Uh oh! Whirl’s wasting water. Can you help Whirl become a water whiz? Join Whirl to learn how to save water and make every drop count. This downloadable storybook includes fun activities to try at home or in your classroom to explore our precious natural resource – water!
Water video library
Virtually visit our water and sewer infrastructure across our region to learn about our local urban water cycle.
Other Water Education Resources
Environmental Education
An interactive resource kit, available for free hire, to help your students learn about the vital role flying foxes play in the survival of our eucalypt and rainforest ecosystems. Created with Primary students in mind, it can be hired for any age group.
Video & Virtual Tour Links
Little Legends Adventure 4: Furry Friends
Join local Little Legends on an adventure to learn about the important role our furry friend, the flying fox, plays as a keystone pollinator. Downloadable activity book available on Connected Kids
Kooloonbung Creek Flying Fox Camp - 360 Interactive Video
A 360 interactive video experience of the Flying Fox camp at Kooloonbung Creek Flying Fox Camp. Try viewing it with a VR headset for an immersive birds eye view of the flying foxes at rest.
Stormwater Management & Maintenance Talk
Senior stormwater engineer, Mark Edenborough, discusses how we manage and maintain our stormwater facilities, technological developments, best practice systems.
Kooloonbung Creek Flying Fox Camp Virtual Discovery Tour
Best suited for: Middle Primary +
An interactive learning experience to help students learn about flying foxes, why they’re so important for our ecosystem, and how we can protect their natural environment.
Other Environment Education Resources
Koala Smart - Koala Conservation education program
A free project based learning program designed to inspire, motivate and educate primary and secondary school children to actively participate and create change to reverse the decline in koala populations using design thinking and advocacy.
FrogID - Citizen Science
An initiative of the Australian Museum, FrogID is a national citizen science project that is helping us learn more about what is happening to Australia’s frogs. the website provides a wide range of free, curriculum-mapped teaching resources, and hosts a leaderboard for schools participating in this Citizen Science project.
FeralScan app - Pest Mapping Citizen Science
Best suited for: Upper Primary and Secondary School
Powered by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions, the Feral Scan app allows users to record pest animal activity in your local area to protect farms, biodiversity and communities. N.B: this project can be confronting for students. Please consider whether it is suitable for your class.
NSW WeedWise App - Weed Biosecurity
Best suited for: Upper Primary and Secondary School
Weed biosecurity is important to protect our environment. This app is a wonderful interactive learning resource to help students identify a weed by its physical description and image gallery, and find out about its impacts, where it occurs, how it spreads and its preferred habitat. A video on how to use the app can be found on the Reporting Weeds page of the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council website.
CoastSnap App - Coastal Management Citizen Science
Best suited for: All age groups
CoastSnap is a low-cost method for mapping shoreline change using smartphone images collected by the community and uploaded to social media platforms. This app can be incorporated into a specific school excursion to our coastline or used during school sport beach walk electives. The app is also referenced in one of the adventures of our Little Legends Passport activity booklet for early Primary students. A downloadable copy of this is available on ConnectEd Kids.
Marine Estate Agents Program - NSW Government program
Best suited for: Primary School
The Marine Estate Agents program is aimed at creating a solid foundation for students that will inspire and foster lifelong learning of the marine estate within classrooms in NSW and beyond. Downloadable teaching resources are available across Stage 1 – Stage 3, along with a ‘Careers in the NSW Marine Estate’ video series and links to other school resources.
Road Safety & Transport Education
Safety Town
Safety Town is a road safety education resource for teachers, students and families. It provides a variety of interactive learning activities for students from Kindergarten to Year 6. Teachers are provided with comprehensive teaching notes to support the use of the interactive activities, and support learning as part of PDHPE, English and Mathematics.
The program is funded by the Centre for Road Safety, Transport for NSW. It is a partnership with the Association of Independent Schools, Catholic Education Commission, Department of Education, and Kids and Traffic Early Childhood Road Safety Education Program.
Little Blue Dinosour
The Little Blue Dinosaur is developing activities and programs for schools to educate their students about pedestrian roadway safety at home and on holidays.
These resources target children’s limited cognitive abilities in an appealing and interactive manner.
AusBike programs empower your students with lifelong skills. Whether they’re fresh off training wheels or ready for bigger challenges, AusBike gets kids riding a bike confidently, unlocking a world of freedom, fun and adventure.
