Teacher Resources

Curriculum themes provided, plus ideas that can be used for everyday literacy activities or special events like Book Week. Also can be used in conjunction with an Author Web Chat or Author Visit.

New e-books

Some of Hazel's e-books are distributed via Port Campbell Press  or are available on Kindle.

Duty Free  and Misfit  are recent e-books for mid/upper primary. Misfit deals with 'being different' in a religious school .Duty Free is a travel mystery set in China with a 14 year old sleuth.

Both deal with ethical dilemmas.

Night Creatures of the Mall is a very simple mystery for beginner readers.

Water Bandits has watch-geese at the French Mill & a tri-lingual cat who stops the water bandits.

E-Book Literacy Mysteries 

 

The Frequent Flyer Twins and Project Spy Kids series are now available as E-Book downloads from Port Campbell Press . Ideal for young independent readers, the 'Project Spy Kids' series stars 10 year old Art, a cool problem-solver who only reads clues. 'The Frequent Flyer Twins' are Asian-Australian twins who solve mysteries at various international airports. Activities linked to these series are available for download below:

Design Your Own Mystery Work Sheets

• Design Your Own Mystery Work Sheet - Frequent Flyer Twins 
• Design Your Own Mystery Work Sheet - Project Spy Kids

These activity sheets ,with reading outcomes, encourage students to craft their own mystery using the characters from the Frequent Flyer Twins series and introducing their own plot, clues, locations and motives.

 

Fun Activity Sheets

• Download a Frequent Flyer Word Find and Colouring Sheet
• Download a Project SpyKids Word Find and Colouring Sheet
  
  

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Antarctica

In 2001, Hazel was awarded the Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellowship and travelled to Casey Station on the ‘Polar Bird’ ice-ship. This visit inspired the young adult eco-thriller 'Antarctica's Frozen Chosen', picture book ‘Antarctic Dad’ and the memoir, ‘Antarctic Writer on Ice’ as well as classroom playscripts and literacy material.  E-books  'Antarctic Dognapping' and 'Shooting Antarctica' a mystery for adult literacy are available only from Kindle. 

   

• Using Antarctica in Your Classroom
• Antarctic Dad Teacher Notes
• Antarctica's Frozen Chosen Teacher Notes
• Make your own Antarctic Dad Ice Ship

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Hippopotamus Themes and Activities

There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake can provide an imaginative theme for the kindergarten, classroom and the school community as a whole.

     

• There's a Hippopotamus Curriculum Themes and Activities
• There's a Hippopotamus Classroom Activities
• Hippopotamus Recipes and Food Ideas
• Channel 31 Kids in the Kitchen Linking Cooking and Reading

To celebrate the anniversary of the original Hippopotamus book ( now 35) , Puffin created some fun Hippo Party materials. Visit the Puffin website or download the items here.

• Hippo Party Invitation
• Hippopotamus Colouring In Sheet
• Pin the Cake on the Hippo! 

Chinese translations of all six picture books:  Children's Publishing House of Sichuan Province

AudioBook of all Hippo stories and music  Bolinda Audio

'Hippo!Hippo! The Musical' by Garry Ginivan Productions is touring nationally

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Young Adult Fiction Teacher Notes

Designed for male and female readers, aged 13 to 26, Hazel's young adult (YA) fiction titles explore growing up in challenging or adventurous circumstances.

   

• Outback Ferals Teacher Notes
• Antarctica's Frozen Chosen Teacher Notes
• book_rap_for_outback_ferals.pdf
• WIP 'Tag'  process of writing the short story 'Tag' in 'Trust Me Too' collection.

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Young Adult Fiction Teacher Notes and Discussion Hints

From Antarctica to Istanbul, Hazel's non fiction titles can inspire classroom discussion and curriculum themes.

       

• Cycling Solo Book Discussion Tips
• Antarctic Writer on Ice Teacher Notes
• Committee-itis Teacher Notes
• Aussie Heroes: fred_hollows_brief_teacher_activities.pdf  and discussion_activity____what_makes_a_hero.pdf
• f2m-the-boy-within-discussion-notes-educational-resources.pdf  Useful for book clubs & educators, with hypotheticals, activities and gender facts.

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Classroom Scripts and Drama Resources 

Hazel has a number of classroom scripts published in book form. To view the scripts currently available, please click through to Classroom Scripts. 

Dramatics

The book Dramatics co-written with Goldie Alexander is a comprehensive drama resource for primary teachers (years 3-6). This book includes scripts and activities such as creating catchy titles, improvisation and puppet scripts. 

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Plato the Platypus Plumber (Part-Time)

• Teacher Notes for Plato the Platypus Plumber
• Channel 31 Kids in the Kitchen Linking Cooking and Reading  using 'Plato'.
• Collaborating on Plato: article from Working Writer.
• Plato Playscript for classroom use.
• Spanish and German translations

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Gang O Kids

Qantm College students have a Final Build of 'Gang O Kids' computer games based on orienteering up on Youtube.

Even a trial Apps. Lots of running!

 

 

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 Sleuth Astrid e-series

Classroom performance script Sleuth Astrid.pdf

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