This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Little People, Big Dreams - Usain Bolt by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Karen Crosbie. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, a sequencing task and research activity plus a fill-in puzzle. The first six pages of this resource are for student use and the last page is a teacher answer page for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Ice Trap! Shackleton’s Incredible Expedition by Meredith Hooper and M. P. Robertson. This book is about Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Endurance expedition. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the text. There are some comprehension questions, vocabulary and writing activities plus cause and effect and timeline activities. There are seven worksheets for students in this resource. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a three page PDF document about changes in technology around the home over the past 200 years. The first page features 15 pictures of olden-day machines / equipment. Students need to cut out these pictures and glue them into the table on the second page based on which part of the house these items would have been found in. The third page is an answer page for the teacher. This activity is great for discussions about how life has changed and supports History units such as Then and Now and The Way We Were. This activity was written to use with the new Australian Curriculum History K-10 Syllabus. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a five page PDF document about olden day toys in an old-fashioned nursery. The five pages feature five different photos of toys in an olden day nursery. Students need to write the toys they can see in the photo around the box and draw arrows to where they are. This activity could also be done as a whole class / large group on an interactive whiteboard. This activity is great for discussions about how toys have changed and supports History units such as Then and Now, The Way We Were and Past and Present Family Life. This activity was written to use with the new Australian Curriculum History K-10 Syllabus. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Little People, Big Dreams - Stan Lee by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Ana Albero. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, a sequencing task and research activity plus a fill-in puzzle. The first six pages of this resource are for student use and the last page is a teacher answer page for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a 10 page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Lost - Uncover Vanishing Wonders by Jess McGeachin. This document contains 8 worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions about dinosaurs, a questioning task, an activity about photos from Shackleton’s Endurance expedition, four writing worksheets and a fact recalling sheet about thylacines. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a ten page PDF document with activities to do based on the book How to Move a Zoo by Kate Simpson and Owen Swan. This document contains seven worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, vocabulary activities (adjectives and contractions), a Venn diagram worksheet, a writing activity, a research task on Taronga Zoo and a synonym puzzle. A teacher answer sheet is provided for the puzzle. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a four page PDF document containing 2 designs to be used for title pages for a unit on The First Fleet. The first two pages of this file contains title pages which were designed to be placed underneath the student’s workbook page and traced to create a title page for the unit. This activity is helpful in developing design skills and still allows for students to be creative with choice of colour for their title page. The second two pages of the document are a repeat of the first two but with the headings unfilled so that if you would prefer you could just photocopy the title page for your students and get them to colour it in, then glue it into their workbooks. The title pages are suitable for A4 workbooks but of course can easily be reduced or enlarged on the photocopier to suit the size of other workbooks. This document was written to use with the new Australian Curriculum History K-10 Syllabus. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a six page PDF document with activities to do based on the book William Bligh - A Stormy Story of Tempestuous Times by Michael Sedunary. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are some comprehension questions, a timeline sequencing activity and reflection activities based on the events in Bligh’s life. These activities are designed to work with a unit on the First Fleet or the early colony of New South Wales. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a six page PDF document of worksheets and activities for students to complete based on the book The Good, the Bad and the Silly - Stories of our Past by John Dickson. This document contains five worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions and research activities. There is also a QR code activity which takes students to a video about the history of voting. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a two page PDF document on how the Industrial Revolution in Britain contributed to Australian colonisation. The first page is a cause and effect activity for the students to complete and the second page is a teacher reference sheet of the activity with an example of the type of answer students would be expected to give. This activity was written to use with the new Australian Curriculum History K-10 Syllabus. The unit it was written for is a Stage 3 unit titled “The Australian Colonies” but could be used for any study on the history of British Colonisation or the First Fleet. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document with activities to do based on the book M is for Mutiny! by John Dickson and Bern Emmerichs. This document contains seven worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are research activities plus a QR code activity which takes students to a video about titled Mabo Legacy. This book is an excellent resource to use if studying the early explorers of Australia, the First Fleet or early colonies and also Indigenous / Aboriginal studies. It has a little bit of history on many topics and can be used as a jumping off point for further research or discussion. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is an eight page PDF document of worksheets and activities for students to complete based on the book The Startling Story of Lachlan Macquarie: Founding Father or Failure? by Michael Sedunary and Bern Emmerichs. There are seven worksheet for students. The worksheets include comprehension questions, writing activities and reflection activities. This book is an excellent resource to use for a unit on the First Fleet / Early Colonies of Australia. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.

This resource is a seven page PDF document with activities to do based on the book Somebody’s Land by Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing and David Hardy. This document contains six worksheets for students. The activities allow the students to reflect on the story and extend their understanding of the themes within this text. There are comprehension questions, vocabulary activities and writing tasks. There is also a QR code activity that takes students to a video titled Bush Food. This text is a good resource to use when studying First Contacts or early explorers of Australia. Education Australia has other resources available for purchase.