Resources
Explore the wide range of free STEM resources we’ve developed to help educators, families, and kids discover the amazing world of STEM
Whether you’re looking for curriculum-aligned resources for your classroom or activities to spark STEM curiosity at home, we’ve organised our resources to make it easy for you to find what you need:
For the classroom
Dive into quick-start lesson packs, role model stories, STEM story sets, and hands-on activities, all aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9.0.
For families
Support learning at home with simple, engaging activities, and real world career insights that spark conversations about future pathways.
Ready-to-go teacher packs
Whether you’re teaching in the classroom, running a club, or supporting STEM learning at home, Future You offers free, high-quality resources.
All resources (A-Z)
Browse everything in one place with filters for year level, learning area, general capabilities, content type, and career type.
Other resources
Explore other fantastic resources to find more specific details on careers, fun activities, and exciting STEM-based places to visit around Australia. Some of these websites are aimed at an older audience, but provide some great insights into career pathways and opportunities.
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Arludo turns science into something students can actually do. Through educational STEM games that act as digital experiments, students generate and analyse their own data while building critical thinking and data literacy skills.
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Be inspired at the Australian Space Discovery Centre with stories of innovation, curiosity and technology from the space sector.
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Careers with STEM is a great source of information on a range of exciting STEM careers and features real-life role models, teaching resources and more.
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These short videos prepared by the NSW Government Marine Estate give a first-person account on what’s it like to work in and around our coast across a range of fields. Acoompanying fact sheets also provide detailed information and links to help guide you in charting your own career path.
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Digital Classroom from the National Library of Australia offers curriculum-aligned resources that bring Australia’s history, including the history of STEM, to life through over 10 million digitised items. It supports inquiry-based learning, helping students explore sources, think critically, and draw their own conclusions about the role of STEM within the Australian story.
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The GIST is aimed at students in high school. It provides teachers with access to free, inclusive STEM lesson ideas, features lots of role models and is packed with resources, activities and a career quiz.
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EA Junior Club provides activities and resources to parents and primary school teachers who want to bring engineering into the classroom.
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Questacon is the National Science and Technology Centre, an interactive science communication facility located in Canberra, Australia. They are creating a better future through engagement with science, technology and innovation, and is an exceedinly fun day out for all ages.
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STEM Professionals in Schools is a free national volunteer program from CSIRO that creates flexible partnerships between Australian teachers and science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) professionals to provide engaging and relevant STEM learning experiences for students.
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STEM Together is a program from CSIRO that helps young people in Years 5-10 to strengthen their confidence, capability, and connection with Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).
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STEM Pals is a classroom-ready program that connects primary students with diverse STEM professionals through a structured and safe pen-pal relationship. It helps young people see who belongs in STEM by showcasing relatable role models and sparking curiosity about future pathways.
Scholarship information
Scholarships might not be on your radar just yet, but it can be useful to know what support is out there. As students start to explore different education pathways, having a sense of the opportunities available can help you guide their decisions with confidence.
To get you started, we’ve pulled together information from a range of reputable sources about scholarships that may be relevant to your students in the future. These scholarships can play an important role in easing the cost of education.
We’ll continue adding new scholarship information as it becomes available, so feel free to check back from time to time.
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The ADF Future Innovators awards recognise recipients’ science and mathematics abilities while highlighting the value the Navy, Army, and Air Force place on STEM skills and STEM career opportunities within Defence.
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The Indigenous Pathways Portal lists scholarship resources and opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
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This website lists the Australian universities that offer a wide range of partially and fully funded scholarships in Australia for international students, as well as domestic students.
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The Commonwealth Regional Scholarship Program provides scholarships to boarding school students from regional, rural, and remote communities in Australia. Scholarships assist with secondary school boarding fees and associated costs.
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The Good Universities Guide offers a comprehensive database to find over 4,200 Australian university scholarships.
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The Indigenous Youth Leadership Program (IYLP) offers scholarships and leadership opportunities to young Indigenous Australians, with a focus on Indigenous youth from communities in very remote areas of the country or regional communities.
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The Queensland Government offers several education scholarships for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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The Australian Government provides various scholarships and financial support through Study Assist. Support includes tuition subsidies, income support via Centrelink, and specific grants for placements or relocation
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There are a wide range of scholarships, grants, and bursaries to support students financially when studying in Australia. Some are offered by the Australian Government, others by education providers, and public and private organisations.
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The Victorian Government's Department of Education manages a range of scholarships on behalf of various trusts.
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The Western Australian Government coordinates financial scholarships, grants, and prizes for secondary school students.