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 to accompany the 6-minute KnowledgeHub animated video, Why the Vikings Disappeared. The video covers factors in the decline of the Viking Age including loss in key battles, adoption of Christianity and settlement outside Scandinavia and adoption of local customs.

Worksheet to accompany the 10-minute animated Extra Credit video, Viking Expansion: The Serpent Riders. Worked answers are included.

Excellent look at current issues at the archaeological site of Pompeii. Worksheet to accompany the 4-minute news item from 9 Network, Australia, Secrets of the Lost City. The report covers the 2019 discovery of a fresco, engravings on a wall that indicate Mt Vesuvius exploded in October 79 CE rather than August and 5 skeletons of women and children. The Director of Archaeology outlines the work of archaeologists in interpreting 3 very types of archaeological remains. Answers are provided.

Worksheet to accompany Australian Broadcasting Corporation Landline series mini-documentary, Outback helicopter mustering. The 5-minute documentary examines the technology and sustainability in the mustering and export of feral water buffalo in Arnhem Land. Answers are included. This resource is part of a unit of work, Farm Tools and Machinery for the Stages 4/5 NSW Agricultural Technology Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding of the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 4: Rights & Freedoms 1945-present Students analyse a variety of written and visual, primary and secondary sources to make decisions about the impact of the 1965 Freedom Ride on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Australia. The 1965 Freedom Ride was inspired by the Freedom Rides by the American Civil Rights movement. It resulted in immediate publicity about the inequities of all aspects of life for the Aboriginal people. In the longer term it helped to pave the way for the 1967 referendum to include Aboriginal people in the Australian constitution which in turn gave greater legal and political rights to Aboriginal people.

This set of worksheets accompany the 2003 Timeline documentary series The Spartans presented by Bettany Hughes and originally produced by Channel 4 UK and shown on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Answers included. The video is available on YouTube. This resource is part of a unit of work for Stage 6 Higher School Certificate students. NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Historical societies: Option G: Greece - Spartan society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BCE.

Modelled on the U.S. Freedom Rides in the early 1960s, Charles Perkins embarked on a Freedom Ride of his own with Sydney University students in 1965. The event was followed closely by the Australian media who reported on the disruptions to the life of country towns. In the longer-term, however, the road trip highlighted the racial inequities and discrimination against Aboriginal peoples. This Powerpoint presentation gives an overview of the ride and the impact on Aboriginal rights.

As part of the misguided policy of the NSW government to intervene in the lives of Aboriginal families to create a better life for their children, Aboriginal boys and girls were forcibly separated from their parents and placed in homes where they could be given a quality education and provided with nutrition, shelter and life opportunities that would provide them with better opportunities in (European) Australian society. The sad reality was that the children were subjected to physical and mental brutality and received a poor quality education in settings that were far from the support of family and friends. This source-based homework task is designed to assist student understandings of the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 4: Rights and Freedoms (1945-present) The sources deal exclusively with social isolation, educational malpractice and physical abuse. I have not included emotional or sexual abuse even though these certainly occurred. These issues may be better dealt with by individual teachers making the decisions of if and when the "teachable moments" for these sensitive issues best arise with their particular students.

The evidence for the lives of non-royal Persian women comes almost exclusively from the Persian Fortification Tablets, a few small archaeological finds and comments concerning royal Persian women made by Greek writers including Herodotus. Despite this lack of evidence, we know a little of their legal rights, marriage and divorce customs, rights to own land and rights to be employed in work gangs and to manage these gangs. This source-based homework task is designed for students of the NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Higher School Certificate course Historical Periods Option D: Persia - Cyrus II to the death of Darius III It can also be used as part of: Historical Societies Option D: Persia in the time of Darius II and Xerxes

Magnificent works of art created by expert tradesmen for the wealthy residents of Pompeii, the mosaics of Pompeii give us clues about the creation of the works and the lives of both the tradesmen and mosaic owners. This source-based homework task is designed for students of the NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Higher School Certificate course Core: Cities of Vesuvius - Pompeii and Herculaneum

This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding of the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 6: School–Developed Topic The Great Depression Students examine a range of primary and secondary, visual and written sources to decide who or what killed the world's most successful racehorse, Phar Lap, in 1932 during a tour of the USA. Was it the perfidious American book keepers or just a bad case of colic? Only you can find the real answer to why thousands of Australians had their hearts broken (and wallets made a little thinner).

Revision activity consisting of 30 statements that students must identify if they are true or false.

Worksheet for the BBC video, Pompeii: Life and death in a Roman town presented by Mary Beard. The video examines aspects of Roman life in Pompeii as evidenced by the archaeological and forensic evidence: wealth and social class, public and private buildings, diet, knowledge of the Roman world and life outside the empire and slavery. An excellent video for the Core Study: Cities of Vesuvius - Pompeii and Herculaneum. Higher School Certificate course of the NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

Worksheet for the BBC video, Children of the Revolution. The Children who built Victorian Britain, presented by Jane Humphries. This is an outstanding and engaging documentary on child workers in Britain during the Industrial Revolution. It examines the extent of their employment, importance to the state and provides snapshots of the experiences of individual children. As Jane Humphries states, child workers were the true heroes of the Industrial Revolution. This resource is part of a unit of work on the* Industrial Revolution*, Stage 5 History, NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

A Spartan poet? It almost seems unbelievable that a society renowned for its excessive militarism should have a poet, especially one who wrote of love and the colour of women's hair, the beauty of wildflowers and dancing. Yet Alkman's poems inspired the Spartans so much that they were spoken by bards in the syssition and at religious festivals where young girls would dance to his words. This source-based homework task is designed for students of the NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Higher School Certificate course Historical Societies Spartan Society to the Battle of Leuctra

This worksheet and answers accompanies the SBS program First Australians Episode 7: We Are No Longer Shadows. It covers the life of Eddie Koiki Mabo's life and his struggle for the most essential civil right: the right for Indigenous Peoples in Australia to claim legal ownership over their traditional lands. His success in the High Court in 1992 court meant that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples could actually own their land and make decisions with regard to that land such as who can live on it and any economic activities related to the land. But it was also a tremendous moral victory to those who fought for ATSI civil rights. The worksheet is designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 5 Topic 4: Rights and Freedoms. It can also be used as part of the NSW Legal Studies Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Preliminary Course Part I: The Legal System Law Reform in Action Higher School Certificate Course Option 4: Indigenous Peoples

Worksheet to accompany the BBC documentary, Pompeii. The last day. The video gives an excellent outline of how each stage of the explosion of Mount Vesuvius affected the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum. It creates a narrative by using the forensic remains to build a possible scenario about who the person may have been and their life in Pompeii. This worksheet is part of a unit of work,* Core Study: Cities of Vesuvius. Pompeii and Herculaneum*. Higher School Certificate course. NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

Much has been written of the 1838 Myall Creek Massacre of Kamilaroi people by European settlers in New England NSW. But how did people at the time respond to news of the event? What are the responses now? How have people responded when they learned that their ancestors were perpetrators or victims of the event? This source-based homework task supports student understanding of the outcomes in the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 1: The Making of the Modern World The Industrial Revolution/Australia in the 1800s Students examine a range of primary and secondary, visual and written resources to discover the background to the Myall Creek Massacre, the event, and the aftermath. The activity concludes with an examination of responses to the event today. Students then explore some of the values of social responsibility: coming to terms with wrongdoing by and against our ancestors and the appropriateness of forgiving/apologising for these wrongdoings. Thought-provoking concepts that will generate plenty of discussion and engagement.