Related Sites

PageTurners.prace.vic.edu.au

Page Turners are easy-to-read, fun stories for adults who are beginning to read, created by two of the authors of this Beach web.

Have you read our Online Story - - - - "Snakes Alive!" .. ?

Beaches around the world

BondiSurf Club.com

News around the world : bbc.co.uk

Visit the BBC, where you can search for stories on a topic - and listen as well as read.

Safety : lifesaving.com.au

Interactive "Safety at the Beach" from SurfLifeSaving Australia : lifesaving.com.au

Safety : www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au

Better Health Channel from the Victorian Government also has a page on Water Safety for Children.

Enchanted Learning -dotcom-

.. is a US-based site for children. It has a good overview of life in the oceans.

Explore the Sea

.. a US maths/science approach to ocean lessons.

Museums in Australia : amol.org.au

.. also tells the story of bathing costumes.

and other stories about the beach.

Sea & Sky : seasky.org

.. a site with information and activities relating to the sea.

Pictures

NASA Ocean Photos

NASA (National American Space Agency?) has a site full of ocean photographs, taken from above.

Search Google

You can Search Google for pictures of the beach - or any other pictures you want.

Great Ocean Road

Virtual Tour of the Great Ocean Road - made by Tourism Victoria (we think ..?)

Olympic Global Village:

stories from the news, with interactive exercises to assist reading, aimed at intermediate English learners, from Olympic Adult Education.

Around Melbourne:

easy-reading materials, looking at landmarks around Melbourne, basic computer words, and the art of Floristry. (Produced in association with a number of providers in the region.)

Van Diemen's Land:

-- currently offline -- (This site leads you through a journey into Van Diemen's Land in the 19th century. If you have the "Shockwave plugin", you can explore the beach after a shipwreck. (Van Diemen's land is now called Tasmania.)