Henry Lawson’s classic short story, The Drover’s Wife. Students read and discuss the story as a class and then draw a picture of a scene from the story, including incorporating elements that create the appropriate atmosphere. This resource is part of a unit of work on The Australian Colonies for the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

8-minute documentary and worksheet on the equipment and procedure for AI in cattle. These resources are part of a unit of work on Animal Enterprise - Beef Cattle for the NSW Agricultural Technology Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

Video and worksheet for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Landline series documentary, High Stakes. The 19-minute video examines the history of the Australian Wagyu industry, production, the grain-fed vs. grass-fed debate and the technology used in embryo harvest. This resource is part of a unit of work on Animal Enterprise - Beef Production for the NSW Agricultural Technology Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

Video and worksheet, Best practice in handling cattle covers preparing for stock movement, initiating and maintaining a movement, movement through yards and race and cattle behaviours that stockpersons need to be aware of in order to keep cattle calm and feeling positive about interactions with people. These resources are part of a unit of work on Animal Enterprise - Beef Production for the NSW Agricultural Technology Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

Worksheet for the BBC documentary, The Private Life of Cows. Engaging insight into the domestication, grazing practices, cow behaviour and importance of cattle in British farming. This resource is part of a unit of work on Animal Enterprise - Beef Production for the NSW Agricultural Technology Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

Overview to common breeds of beef cattle in Australia. Students research the classification of the cattle into Bos Taurus or Bos Indicus or crossbreed. They also research where in Australia this breed is raised.

Comprehension activity on Beef Cattle - Mating and Calving. This resource is part of a unit of work on Animal Enterprise - Beef Cattle Production for the NSW Agricultural Technology Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

Analysis of article published on the Angus Australia website, Killara feedlot continues the Angus tradition. The article looks at the development of the Killara feedlot, processes within the feedlot including feeding, purchase of livestock and sale and marketing of their product.

Unit of work on the Spanish Conquest of the Americas. Designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 4 Depth Study 6: Expanding Contacts Option 3: Spanish Conquest of the Americas Bundle includes: + Powerpoint - Aztec Society + Aztec Society Powerpoint activity + Do you want to be an Aztec farmer? + Do you want to be an Aztec merchant? + Do you want to be an Aztec slave? + Do you want to be an Aztec warrior? + Do you want to be an Aztec woman? + 3 Cloze activities + Acrostic poem and Mix and match + Sequence the events + Crack the Code revision activity + Word Search + Guns, Germs and Steel worksheet for video + Conquistadors: Episode 1 - The Fall of the Aztecs worksheet for video + Conquistadors: Episode 2 - The Conquest of the Incas + Terms and concepts + Research: Hernán Cortés + Ezine article, Peruvian Ice Caps Preserve a Legacy of Conquest + Information report + The Great Inca rebellion worksheet for video + Mapping History: The Conquistadors in Central America + Crossword + Armor and weapons of a conquistador + Crossword + Deconstructing a visual image - The Arrival or Conquest of Hernan Cortez in Veracruz + Ezine article: Conquistadors sacrificed and eaten by Aztec-era people + Video: Conquistadors Episode 3: The Search for El Dorado + Worksheet for video: Conquistadors Episode 3: The Search for El Dorado + Newspaper article: Spain fights to dispel legend of Inquisition and imperial atrocities + Video: Conquistadors Episode 4: All the World is Human + Worksheet for video: Conquistadors Episode 4: All the World is Human

Worksheet to accompany the 10-minute documentary, Germany and the Nazis 1918-1949. Excellent overview of Germany during this period. This video is available on YouTube.

Worksheet to accompany the 23-minute BBC documentary, Youth in Hitler’s Germany. The video is narrated by Henry Metelmann, a former member of the Hitler Youth who describes his reasons for joining, activities whilst a member, his family’s views of Nazism and the Hitler and an incident he witnessed of opposition to the Hitler Youth. This video is available on YouTube.

Worksheet to accompany the screencast, The Rise of Nazi Germany, presented by Tom Driscoll. This screencast is available on YouTube.

Worksheet to accompany the 8-minute animated documentary, Life in Nazi Germany. This video is available on YouTube.

Worksheet to accompany the six-minute Lagan College video, Opposition to the Nazis. The video is a brief introduction to individuals and groups who attempted opposition to the widely-supported and heavy-handed Nazi regime, 1933-1945.

Powerpoint presentation: How did censorship help the Nazis achieve their goals?

Worksheet to accompany the Simple History 5-minute documentary, Hitler’s Rise to Power.

Powerpoint presentation based on the question: What was the significance of the Wannsee Conference?

Analysis of article by Melissa Eddy, Overlooked No More: Rose Zar. The article was published in The New York Times and describes the extraordinary life of Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor, Rose Zar. This is a story of resilience and survival despite the oppressions of Nazi-occupied Poland. Australians will enjoy the story of an underdog beating the odds: no-one is ever a loser.

This powerpoint is an examination of the contrasting experiences of women in Germany during the Nazi era. It includes specific Nazi ideologies impacting on the lives of women, appearance, laws, family life and reproduction, key quotes, education, the German League of Girls, employment, role in politics, opposition to Nazism, outcast women, why did women support the Nazis? and were Nazi policies towards women successful? Case studies of individuals with widely differing experiences include: Elfriede Lohse-Wachtler, Ilse Koehn, Irma Grese, Leni Riefenstahl, Helene Mayer.

Analysis of ezine article by Philip Jenkins and published at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website, The Crime that did not happen: Nazi Germany’s nightmarish ambitions. This article examines Nazi Germany’s Generalplan Ost, the plan to conquer Eastern Europe to the Urals, exterminate the Slavic inhabitants and re-populate with ethnic Germans. It also touches on the 1941 negotiations with Britain to exit the war with freedom being given to some or all of the West European occupied nations.