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Teaching with Fantasy is the outcome of a 2018 professional development event for teachers titled Teaching with Fantasy: Australian Fantasy Writers in Conversation and in the Classroom. The event has resulted in a collection of teaching and learning resources for seven young adult fantasy texts. These resources were created by Lindsay Williams. This project delivers audio and video author interviews, and lesson plans related to the Australian Curriculum.

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The Australian Speculative Fiction project is comprised of three elements:

• Diversity in Australian Speculative Fiction: A Bibliographical Exhibition - an exhibition of contemporary speculative fiction texts that express diversity in some way. There are four categories of diversity in this exhibition: Racial and ethnic diversity; Physical, neurological, and sensate diversity; sexual and gender diversity; and religious diversity.

• Speculative Fiction Teaching Resources: Here you will find lesson outlines for using speculative fiction in the classroom. These texts are primarily aimed at secondary students.

• A full text collection of Early Australian Speculative Fiction and Information Trail: The collection of 135 works focuses on Australian speculative fiction from the 1830s to 1940s. The works focus on various topics, ranging from lost civilisations/races to apocalyptic fiction and everything in between. Click here to view the full collection. Or visit the Information Trail.

Beyond Goggles and Corsets: Australian Steampunk is an extensive critical history of steampunk in Australian writing. This project contains a rich dataset for discovering Australian Steampunk and a comprehensive essay on its history. This dataset will aid teachers in navigating this genre and locating useful texts for the classroom. There is also an 'Alt.Australia: A Steampunk Timeline' of an imagined Australia as well as a Glossary of Terms.

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