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Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

Powerhouse Museum: Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
An exciting online exhibit presenting hundreds of objects created specifically for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. See interactive collections of broadcast materials (manuals, media kits, passes), posters, banners, costumes, souvenirs,...
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Sydney Opera House

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is excellent for anyone who is looking to visit the Sydney Opera House. This site gives info on the events, the house, shopping, and restaurants.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: The Sydney Basin

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the structure of the Sydney Basin in Australia. The Sydney Basin is millions of years old. It contains large coal fields which are economically important to Australia. Included are links to maps which show the geology,...
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Wonderville Media

Wonderville: Sydney Opera House

For Students 2nd - 7th
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic buildings of the 20th century. It is the center of Sydney's skyline and culture. It was designed by a Danish Architect named Jorn Utzon and built in 1973. Learn about Sydney Opera House in...
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Mammals of Sydney Harbour

For Students 9th - 10th
Engaging site which covers some of the 40 species of mammals that live in Australia. Get quick interesting information on rodents, marsupials, bats and marine mammals that live in the Sydney Harbour area of Australia.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Sydney Opera House

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a virtual tour of the Sydney Opera House, one of the most recognizable buildings of the twentieth century.
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Cyark: Sydney Opera House

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the most recognizable structures in the world, the Sydney Opera House stands as an emblem of artistic excellence and modernism for Australia. Get in-depth information and/or explore the house in 3D.
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G'day Sydney: The Opera House

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderful resource on the Sydney Opera House. Very extensive, lots of information, and great pictures.
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Paul Munsey & Cory Suppes

2000 Sydney Olympic Stadium

For Students 9th - 10th
Find all the information you want to know about the 2000 Sydney Olympic Stadium, home of the 2000 Summer Olympics. Includes interesting facts and details about the facility, history of the venue, and Olympic news.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Story Land by Sydney Grey

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Story-land by Sydney Grey (1884), a collection of children's stories.
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Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Sydney Opera House

For Students 9th - 10th
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of the Sydney Opera House. Instructions require download.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Birds of Sydney Harbour

For Students 9th - 10th
This beautiful site from the Australian Museum touches upon the bird fauna of Sydney Harbour. You can learn about the changing habitats, how to identify birds and where to see them. There is also a list of the different birds that can be...
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Reptiles of Sydney Harbor

For Students 9th - 10th
Sydney Harbour has a large variety of reptile species roaming through its sandstone gullies and ridges. Learn about the turtles, lizards and snakes of Australia.
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Sydney Aquarium: Explore Our Zones

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a tour of the Sydney Aquarium and learn about the diverse aquatic environments.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: Using Quotes Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This 2-page resource provides guidelines for how to use quotations effectively in essays. Includes a list of ten common mistakes that writers make when using quotations in essays and how they can be avoided.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: The Write Site: Evaluating Your Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This essay resource teaches students how to select the type of evidence that best lends weight and credibility to their topics and how to organize the evidence effectively. A chart is provided as a quick reference. Click on pages 2-4 at...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Bilger, of Sydney" by Louis Becke

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Bilger, of Sydney" by Louis Becke, a story about Bilger, an old man who came to the house of the man who had just lost a child.
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Sydney.net: Building Program

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides informations and other links about the Sydney Opera House Building Program
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Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)

For Students 9th - 10th
Located in Sydney, Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales offers a "mixed collection", representing different parts of the world. The words at the top of the site are the keys to information about the museum. "Collection" clearly...
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University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
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University of Sydney (Australia)

The University of Sydney: The Write Site: Unit 1: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module with three lessons, four practice exercises, and a summary designed to teach what sentence fragments are and how they can be corrected.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

Univ. Of Sydney: Buddhist Architecture at Pagan, Burma

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a good site for those interested in the different images associated with the Eastern religion, Buddhism. It Specializes in different types of Buddha imagery. Very useful for those studying the integration of art and religion in...
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"Shelley" by Sydney Waterlow

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers the complete text of an e-book on Percy Shelley. It contains an in-depth analysis of the poet's life and works, along with hyperlinked definitions from the Encyclopedia of the Self.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: Planning the Overall Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource discusses the steps in planning the structure of a student's argumentative essay. Page 4 of this article focuses on Thesis statement.

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