Sequencing activity for the topic Making a Nation Australia 1900-1914.

Sequencing activity for the topic Australia in World War I.

Revision activity for the topic Spanish Conquest of the Americas. Students use the decoding key to decode the 6 questions. They then answer the questions from their class notes to answer the questions. The activity is designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 4 Depth Study 6: Expanding Contacts Spanish Conquest of the Americas

This worksheet accompanies the 2012 BBC documentary resented by Neil Oliver, Vikings Episode 2. The documentary focuses on the pre-Christian period of Viking culture through an examination of archaeological evidence. It is designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 4 Depth Study 4: The Western and Islamic World The Vikings

Revision activity for the topic Aboriginal Rights and Freedoms. Students use the decoding key to decode the 6 questions. They then answer the questions from their class notes to answer the questions. The activity is designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 5 Depth Study 4: Rights and Freedoms 1945-present

Revision activity for the topic The Vikings. Students use the decoding key to decode the 6 questions. They then answer the questions from their class notes to answer the questions. The activity is designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 4 Depth Study 4: The Western and Islamic World The Vikings

Skalds were the bards or professional entertainers of Viking society. They specialised in entertaining the paying public: the aristocracy. But they also taught children, gave public recitations of history and mythology and made formal speeches at funerals and important ceremonies. This source-based activity is designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 4 Depth Study 4: The Western and Islamic World The Vikings

Three cloze activities on the topic Aboriginal Rights and Freedoms: 1. U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2. The Aboriginal Protection Board 3. The 2008 Apology to Indigenous People. The activity is to accompany the unit of work on Aboriginal Rights and Freedoms in the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 5 Depth Study 4: Rights and Freedoms 1945-present

Revision activity for the topic The Mongol Expansion. Students use the decoding key to decode the 6 questions. They then answer the questions from their class notes to answer the questions. The activity is designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 4 Depth Study 6: Expanding Contacts The Mongol Expansion

This is an analysis of the Archaeology magazine 2012 article 'The Truth Behind the Tablets'. The article discusses the evidence of daily life in the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Students analyse the article and then look at 3 critical thinking issues: 1. Ownership of the tablets as historical artefacts. 2. Why has ownership of the ancient tablets become a modern legal issue? 3. Reliability of the information recorded on the tablets given their purpose and location when discovered. The resource is designed for students of the NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Higher School Certificate course Ancient Periods Option D: Persia - From Cyrus II to the death of Darius III

Sequencing activity for the topic The Vikings.

Sequencing activity for the topic Spanish Conquest of the Americas.

Can your students walk in the shoes of someone from the topic Iran 1953-1989? This empathetic task is: "The Shah has left and Imam Khomeini has, at last, returned home. As a working-class Tehrani man/woman, you have been selected by the local newspaper to express your views of this momentous event and the instability in the country in 1979. As the reporter gets out his pen and pad you begin your interview ...." There is a marking guide provided. This task is designed for students of the NSW Modern History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Higher School Certificate course National Studies Option H: Iran 1953-1989

Can your students walk in the shoes of someone from the topic Spartan Society to the Battle of Leuctra? This empathetic task is: "You are a Spartan hoplite at the Battle of Thermopylae. But tonight will be your last night on earth. The Persians have now surrounded the remaining 300 Spartan professional soldiers and the allied conscripts who will be of limited help. As your mates groom their hair, sharpen their swords and prepare their minds, you sit down with your Athenian servant and relate how and why you have come to you have come to be serving Lakonia at Thermopylae. He tells you to begin ..." There is a marking guide provided. This task is designed for students of the NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Higher School Certificate course Ancient Societies Option G: Spartan Society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BCE

Research task on Adolf Hitler that includes longer response questions on Hitler's treatment of the Jews and a question on whether the responder agrees with the character Mark that Hitler's behaviour was evil. Students need to use the evidence from the novel or from their research to provide examples.

This is a source-based activity consisting of drawings, primary and secondary documentary evidence and a photograph of an archaeological find. Students examine the evidence to answer short-response questions. the last activity is to write a half-page report on the weapons Viking used in battle. This activity is designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 4 Depth Study 4: The Western and Islamic World The Vikings

Students examine the components of a professional book review of Hitler's Daughter. They then use a scaffolded proforma to write their own review.

the theme of Child-Parent Relationships is pervasive in the novel Hitler's Daughter. Marks positive relationship with his parents in Wallaby Creek today contrasts with Heidi's relationship with Duffi in Germany in the early 1940s. But in both cases, parents and children are not perfect.

Anna and Mark both embark on journeys to find out about Heidi and the world of Nazi Germany in which she lives. The issues they discover give them questions about our society today. In this activity a summary of the theme is given and students are asked to compare the issue of Nazi acquisition of Jewish homes and goods with European acquisition of Aboriginal land.

Heidi is Hitler's daughter. A lonely, anxious girl who craves love and to live her life as other children. In this activity students are provided with a profile of her character from the novel and given a list of personality characteristics to select the verbs that best describe her.