Article written by Professor Ali Ansari and published at BBC News, Alexander the not so Great: History through Persian eyes. The brief article provides evidence that the Greeks did not really hate the Persians and wished to destroy their empire, but that they admired the Persians. This article is part of two units of work - Personalities in their Times - Option G. Greece - Alexander the Great and Historical Periods - Option D. Persian society at the time of Darius and Xerxes. Stage 6 Higher School Certificate course. NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

Analysis of ezine article by Carl Nylander from Penn Museum (and originally published in 1971) entitled The Achaemenid Empire. The article is a readable introduction to how we know about life in the Achaemenid Persian Empire - principal documentary and archaeological evidence. This resource is designed for Stage 6 Higher School Certificate students of the NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Historical periods: Persia - Cyrus II to Darius III.

Worksheet to accompany the documentary, Engineering an Empire: The Persians. The documentary covers engineering achievements during the Achaemenid Persian Empire including the qanaat system, Cyrus tomb at Pasagardae, Darius I’ palace at Susa, Darius I’s construction works at Persepolis, Darius I’s canal linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, the Royal Road from Susa to Sardis, the pontoon bridges crossing the Hellespont built by Xerxes and Darius I and Artaxerxes I’s Hall of One Hundred Columns at Persepolis. This resource is designed for Stage 6 students of the Higher School Certificate. NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Historical period -Option D. Persia - Cyrus II to Darius III.

Warawi is an Eora girl who lives on her traditional land in 1788. This episode of My Place looks at the day she met the Grub People for the first time. The worksheet focuses on the character off Waruwi, her traditional life and the impact of the Europeans. This resource includes answers. The resource is part of a unit of work for Stage 3, The Australian Colonies for the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

Worksheet to accompany the 4-minute documentary, Australia’s Early Settlers. The video is a good overview of early-19th Century migration to Australia. The resource is designed for Stage 3 students, The Australian Colonies, NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum…

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.

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.

Analysis of an article published on the British Broadcasting Corporation website by Lucy Burns, White Rose: The Germans who tried to topple Hitler. The article is the story of the White Rose resistance group as told by a surviving member, Lilo Furst-Ramdohr. It is the story of how a small group of young people attempted to rally support to resist Nazism but who were not supported by everyday Germans, informants, the court system and the secret police. This is a story that is told over and over again, for example, Tomorrow, When the War Began, The Hunger Games.

Worksheet and answers to accompany the documentary, Hitler. The Rise & Fall. Episode 1: The Opportunist. The documentary covers Hitler’s family background, life in Austria, World War 1, joining the German Workers Party, the 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch, imprisonment and the early years of the National Socialist German Workers Party.