The following websites and databases are all freely available on the open web, all day every day. They have been assessed as being educationally relevant.
This website is designed for children, by meteorologist Crystal Wicker. It provides information about all aspects of weather and all types of natural disasters.
This dictionary includes concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of the lives of over 12,000 significant and representative persons in Australian history.
Your guide to Australian newspapers. Select a State or Territory to browse the database of Australian and regional newspapers or use the search box to find your local town paper.
This provides access to a wide range of poetic texts, critical and contextual material, including interviews, photographs and audiovisual recordings. This website currently contains over 42,000 poems, representing the work of more than 170 Australian poets.
The multi-perspective, open-access knowledge base is the result of an international collaborative project involving more than 1,000 authors, editors, and partners from over fifty countries.
Smarthistory is a leading resource for the study of art and cultural heritage. Our growing collection of videos and essays are designed to be engaging and conversational and cover art that ranges from the paleolithic to the present.
This encyclopedia features mythology, folklore, and legends. It currently contains over 6,100 entries on gods and goddesses, heroes and legendary creatures.
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
The Archive offers cross-searchable online access to over 800,000 original documents from Churchill’s personal correspondence, speeches and from photographs and newspaper reports.
WASLA Teacher Librarian of the Year- 2017: Jo-Anne Urquhart
- 2016: Lise Legg
WASLA Library Officer of the Year- 2012: Karen Notley