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.

This Powerpoint presentation is designed to support the History Australian National Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 6: School Developed Topic - The Holocaust. I have deleted the embedded videos but you can easily insert these from YouTube and/or Vebo. The activities are designed for a regular class but you can modify the activities for Gifted and Talented and the range of special education learners including students with Emotional Disorders.

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.

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

This worksheet and answers accompany the Crash Course World History - The Vikings. It is a great overview to Viking society and northern Europe in the early Middle Ages.

This package includes: + Program for unit of work + Powerpoint - Charles Perkins and the Freedom Rides + Powerpoint - The Stolen Generation + Newspaper front page - National shame as UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples rejected by Australia! + Video worksheet - First Australians Episode 6: A Fair Deal for a Dark Race + Video worksheet - First Australians Episode 7: We Are no Longer Shadows + Video worksheet - UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples + Source Analysis - What was the impact of the 1965 Freedom Rides + Source Analysis - What did the 1967 Referendum Actually Achieve? + Source Analysis - What really happened at the Kinchela Boys Home? + Source Analysis - Why did Aboriginal people set up a Tent Embassy in 1972? + Source Analysis - What were the causes and effects of the 1938 Day of Mourning? + Source Analysis - Why did the Gurindji people walk off the Wave Hill Pastoral Station in 1966? + Worksheet - Historical Perspectives: The Stolen Generation + Mix and match activity - Key words and concepts + Word Search - Aboriginal Rights and Freedoms + Mind map: Rights of the Child + Literacy activity: Assimilation + Sequence the events + 3 Cloze activities + Walk in his/her shoes - empathetic task

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.

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 unit of work on the Mongol Expansion is designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. It includes: + Genghis Khan documentary worksheet + The Battle of Wild Fox Ridge activity + 2 jigsaws + Why was the Mongol army so successful activity + Traditional Mongol Clothing activity + The Mongol War Machine literacy activity + The Mongol Expansion Word Search + Food in the Mongol Empire activity + Mongol Clothing worksheet + Mongol Warriors activity + Crash Course World History film worksheet + Mongol tactics and strategies lesson + 4 cloze activities + Newspaper front page + Deconstructing a visual image + Acrostic poem and Mix and match + Worksheet to video Barbarians: the Mongols

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

This worksheet and answers are designed for the 6-minute animated Ted Ed documentary, The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall. It covers post-WWII events resulting in the division of Berlin, the creation of the first fence to prevent emigration and loss of workers from East Germany, the construction of the concrete wall in 1961-2, the fortifications immediately behind the wall and events leading to the opening of border crossings in 1989. The video is available on YouTube.

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).

This is a unit of work designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. It includes: + Teaching program for unit of work The Holocaust + Worksheet for video - Prisoner Number A26188 - Henia Bryer + Worksheet for video - Auschwitz - The Forgotten Evidence + Worksheet for video - I’m Still Here + Worksheet for video - Annihilation. The Destruction of European Jews. + Source-based activity - What happened at Babi Yar in September 1941? + Source-based activity - What was life like for Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto? + Source-based activity - What was the Judenrat? How did they try to protect fellow Jews? + Source-based activity - What were the experiences of prisoners and their captors on the Helmbrechts Death Marches? + Source-based activity - What were the reactions of German Jews and non-Jews to Kristallnacht? + Powerpoint - Chronology of the Holocaust + Powerpoint - Anti-Semitism The Longest Hatred + Powerpoint - Nazi Extermination Camps + Powerpoint - Living in the Warsaw Ghetto + Powerpoint - Aftermath of the Holocaust + Powerpoint - Security Police + Powerpoint - Nazi Ideology + Historical Perspectives: Anti-Semitism + Word Search - The Holocaust + Assessment Task + Newspaper front page activity + The restroom cleaners of the Lodz Ghetto activity + 3 Primary sources: the Holocaust + Terms and concepts activity + Walking in his/her shoes empathetic task Ezine article: What we must learn from Holocaust survivors, before it’s too late Ezine article: Kristallnacht surivivor Andy Factor warns antisemitism on 80th anniversary

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.

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

Worksheet to accompany the BBC documentary, The Vikings. Who Were They? The documentary covers life in Scandinavia from 700 CE, longships and their importance in raiding, the attacks on Lindisfarne and Paris, Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson and the settlements in Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, the adoption of Christianity, the life of Harold Hardrada, the Battle of Stamford Bridge and briefly, what happened to the Vikings. The documentary repeats itself after 40 minutes so I would end it at that point. This worksheet 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

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.

This unit of work is designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 5 Depth Study 3: Australians at War - World War I It includes: + What was Monash’s role in the Battle of Hamel? Source-based activity + Why do Australians celebrate a military defeat? Source-based activity + What were the experiences of Australian POWs in WWI? Source-based activity + Was the Gallipoli evacuation a strategic success or recognition of a failed strategy? Source-based activity + Did German-Australians need to be interned in WWI? Source-based activity + What was the impact of WWI on returned servicemen? Source-based activity + Beneath Hill 60 worksheet for video + The Battle of Passchendaele worksheet for video + The Last Charge (Beersheba) worksheet for video + Australia: the Story of Us worksheet for video + 4 Cloze Activities + Sequence the events + Write an exposition + Word Search + Crack the Code + Key terms and concepts + Deconstructing a Visual Image - Anzac Cove + 3 Primary source analyses + Write an explanation Ezine article - Anzac Day: How it came to occupy a sacred place in Australian’s hearts Newspaper article - 100 years on: The Battle of Polygon Wood Ezine article - Indigenous Anzacs: Letters home from Aboriginal WWI diggers reveal humour, sadness Information report Ezine article: Effects of WWI lingered long in Australia Revision activity: True or False?

This is a program for the unit of work Conflict in Indochina 1945-1975 and is designed to meet requirements for the NSW Modern History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

This worksheet and answer sheet accompanies the 2006 feature film, Kokoda. It focuses on reasons for the Australian 39th Battalion being on the Kokoda Track in 1942, conditions and difficulties for Australian soldiers, the two battles of Isurava and the aftermath of the battles. It includes analysis of 3 scenes from the film that depict fighting conditions.