Teacher Resources
Hazel's books cover curriculum themes and ideas that can be used for everyday literacy activities or special events like Book Week or community arts festivals. These resources can also be used in conjunction with an Author Web Chat or Author Visit.
Read Plus: Co-designing E-books Literacy Mystery Quest, with Jane Connory illustrator-designer.
YABBA profiles Australian creators and has Young Australian Best Book Award, reviews etc
E-Book Literacy Mysteries
The Frequent Flyer Twins and Project Spy Kids series are now available as E-Book downloads from Hazel's online store. 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 on Hazel's store and 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 and readers to craft their own mystery using the characters from the Frequent Flyer Twins series and introducing their own plot, clues, locations and motives.
See Behind the Scenes - Creating an E-Book
- Visit Illustrator and Designer Jane Connory's website to discover more about creating the Frequent Flyer Twins and see how she designed the characters and Ebook with Jane's step by step guide.
- Leader interview on no-guilt e-books for parents
Create Your Own T-Shirts
- Log on to Red Bubble for E-Book merchandise and logos designed by Jane Connory
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 creative projects including 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. Hazel also offers the Antarctica – That Cool Continent presentation, suitable for kindergartens and schools.
- 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 and fun 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
- How to make Hippopotamus Finger Puppets
- Hand Me Down Hippo Teacher Notes
- Channel 31 Kids in the Kitchen Linking Cooking and Reading
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original Hippopotamus book, Puffin have created some fun Hippo Party materials. You can visit the Puffin website or download the items here.
Chinese translations of all six picture books Children's Publishing House of Sichuan Province
AudioBook of all Hippo stories and music Bolinda Audio
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Duckstar Easy Reading Series
Designed for newly independent readers the Duckstar series is a set of two back to back stories: Duckstar/Cyberfarm and
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Click here for more details on the Duckstar series, including the book trailer and e-book links.
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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
- Check 'Outback Ferals' relevance to overcoming_writers_block_by_interviewing_your_novel_character.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
- Healthy Women Discussion Resources
- Aussie Heroes: fred_hollows_brief_teacher_activities.pdf and discussion_activity____what_makes_a_hero.pdf
- discussion_notes-_f2m_the_boy_within.pdfUseful for book clubs & educators (Big 2.2MG file) 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.
Available from Teaching Solutions
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Download Flight of the Bumblebee Script for your classroom
Designed for 6 actors plus a chorus of up to 30, this classroom playscript is adapted from Hazel's picture book and cd, Flight of the Bumblebee.
A clumsy bee-prince, with no sense of direction, Bumble must find and pollinate flowers or food won’t grow. In a drought-stricken Palace garden, Bumble takes zoom-flying lessons despite bullying by the Workers and the Queen Bee who tells him where to go. This time, Bumble gets his flightplan, right with the help of a kindly Drone. Movement to music is the answer.
Download a copy of the script: Flight of the Bumblebee.pdf
New Frontier publishers provide curriculum links and activities here.
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Kingston Library Virtual Storytelling has clips of Hazel reading picture books to encourage parents to share stories at home with families.
Also linked to these book pages: The Flight of the Bumblebee and 'Plato the Platypus Plumber(part-time)'.
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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
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