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We've rounded up the five most viewed ACTF education resources for Term 3. Could these popular resources be used to support student learning in your class next term?

1. Runt resource (Years 3 – 6)

The award-winning Australian children’s book Runt – written by Craig Silvey and illustrated by Sara Acton – has been adapted as a feature film. This resource provides sequenced learning tasks suitable for a whole-class film study. Alternatively, teachers can select individual tasks to complement and extend a class or cohort film screening.

RUNT opens nationally in Australian cinemas on 19 September.

2. More Than This resource (Years 9 – 12)

This resource explores themes in the M-rated television series, More Than This. The Consent and Respectful Relationships lesson for upper secondary students is consistently popular with educators. In this lesson, students learn that consent can take many forms and that there are different ways to give, seek and deny consent in respectful relationships.

3. Eddie’s Lil’ Homies resource (F – 2)

This resource centres on the personal and social skills and understandings that are explored in each episode of the animated children’s series, Eddie’s Lil’ Homies. It includes concepts, discussion starters and hands-on learning tasks that support Foundation to Year 2 students to understand themselves and others, supporting them to navigate relationships in the classroom and beyond.

4. Media Representations resource (Years 5 – 6)

This resource guides Year 5 and 6 students in examining representations and points of view in children’s television. Students will learn from industry experts, then view and respond to short clips drawn from children’s television programs.

And Then Something Changed resource (Years 3 – 6) 

In And Then Something Changed, eight-year old Louis wakes up to what he thinks is going to be just another normal school day, but something has changed. Gone are the motorised backpacks, electric stairs, self-dressing clothes and elevating floors that Louis relies on. In this film we discover what it’s like to be a child with Achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, and what it’s like to navigate a world that isn’t built for you. This resource supports Year 3 - 6 teachers and students to explore themes from the short film, with learning tasks related to disability, inclusion, accessibility and media representation.