This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding of the NSW History Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 2: Australia & Asia Depth Study 2a: Making a Nation - Australia 1900-1914. Students analyse primary and secondary visual and written evidence to make decisions about how revolutionary was the Harvester Judgement of 1907. This court case introduced the concept of a fair and reasonable wage and found that work is not merely about earning an income. The activity is suitable for students in both Gifted and Talented classes and in regular mixed-ability classes.

This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding of the NSW History syllabus of the Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 2: Australia and Asia 2a Making a Nation: Australia 1900-1914 Students analyse a variety of primary and secondary, written and visual sources to make decisions about how innovative they believe the range of Commonwealth social legislation 1901-1914 to be.

This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding of the NSW syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 2 - Australia & Asia 2a - Making a Nation: Australia 1900-1914 It can also be used as background for: Depth Study 4 - Rights & Freedoms 1945-Present Students analyse a variety of primary and secondary, visual and written evidence to determine whether the South Sea Islander people (Kanakas) were slaves or guest workers. The overwhelming evidence points only one way. Yet another very sad example of the first world achieving economic success at the expense of the third world. Lots of scope to discuss discrimination, social and economic power and responses to injustice.

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: Australia in the Vietnam War Era Students analyse a range of primary and secondary, written and visual sources to decide how attitudes towards Australian Vietnam veterans changed after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Efforts to improve public perceptions and to improve their own political power and wellbeing lay in the hands of the veterans themselves. A real historical case study in going from zero to hero.

This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding of the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 3 - Australians at War: World Wars I & II Students analyse a variety of primary and secondary, written and visual sources to determine why conscription was introduced in Australia in 1943. Conscription has always been very unpopular in Australia, with plebiscites rejected in 1916 and 1917 and tremendous opposition to the issue during the Vietnam War. Yet, it was introduced in 1943, generally accepted and conscripted troops made a significant impact in the New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War. What made this time different?

This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding of the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 1 - Making a better world? The Industrial Revolution Students analyse a variety of primary and secondary, visual and written sources to learn how the Industrial Revolution affected the working conditions of Australians in the 1800s. It includes urban and rural work and the work of men, women and children. Australia was more fortunate than European and North American countries in terms of worker's rights as these countries suffered harsher conditions and fought longer and harder for improvements. Australia, by contrast, acted comparatively quickly to establish better working conditions and worker's rights - unless you were female, ATSI, working in isolated areas or in most rural industries. The good news was that from 1856 legislation became proactive rather than reactionary.

Over 9 days in late summer each year the Spartans let their hair down to celebrate the Festival of Karneia. Eating and drinking, sporting and music competitions and sacrifices to Apollo all attest to the annual event being a celebration of everything Spartiana. This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding of the NSW Ancient History syllabus Higher School Certificate course Part II - Ancient Societies Option I - Spartan Society to the Battle of Leuctra Students analyse a variety of primary and secondary, visual, archaeological and written evidence to come to an understanding of what happened at the Festival of Karneia. Eviva!

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 created a nation. But did it benefit everyone? This is a source-based homework task to support student learning of the NSW syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 5 Depth Study 2: Australia & Asia Topic 2(a): Making a Nation: Australia 1900-1914 Students analyse a range of primary and secondary, visual and written sources to determine the consequences of the Constitution Act for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Act excluded ATSI peoples for a number of reasons but this added to their disenfranchisement and marginalisation - a problem yet to be adequately dealt with.

This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding for the History Australian National Curriculum Stage 5 School Developed Topic: Australia in the Vietnam War Era. Students analyse a variety of visual and written primary and secondary source materials to identify the weapons used by Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War and to discuss their effectiveness.

The South Vietnam Government believed that the best way of protecting civilians and identifying the Viet Cong was to separate the two by bringing civilians into protected of strategic hamlets which would leave the Viet Cong easily identifiable by being outside. But things didn't work out quite as planned. In fact, the Strategic Hamlets Program was a dismal failure. Why? The whole issue informs us of attitudes of the abuses of government, the frustration of civilians and the determination of the Viet Cong . This source-based homework task is designed for students of the NSW Modern History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Higher School Certificate course Peace and Conflict Option A: Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979

Tyrtaeus was a poet in the 7th century BCE who wrote verse extolling war, militarism and the Spartan government. His poems were recited in syssition and at other public events. He wrote soon after the Messenian Wars when Sparta crushed and enslaved the Messenian people. This homework task is designed to increase student understanding of the NSW Ancient History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Higher School Certificate course Ancient Societies Option F: Spartan Society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC

This Powerpoint presentation holds back no punches and has had a powerful impact on students. It gives as overview of some of the groups subject to Nazi persecution and execution during the Holocaust: ethnic Poles, Mentally and physically disabled people, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, ethnic Russians and Russian prisoners of war, Gypsies, political prisoners, Christians and asocials. I include embedded clips from YouTube and look at the survival/treatment of each of each of these groups today. Nothing in this presentation is my own. The content is disturbing, the images haunting. May we learn from the past

The Persian army was the ancient world's equivalent of a multi-national peace force: it maintained the (Persian) world order by employing a core of Persian and Median infantry and cavalry as well as mercenaries from the corners of the empire - Arab camel-riders and bowmen, Cypriot and Egyptian naval ships, Central Asian and African tribesmen using scimitars, short swords & slings, Greek bowmen from the satraps of Asia Minor and Indians equipped with chariots, bows and short swords. This source-based homework task is designed to increase student understanding 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

The authors mother, Christine is a complex character who suffers increasingly from a serious mental illness as the narration of the memoir proceeds. At times she is highly depressed and neglects her children. At other times she is promiscuous and manic. 1950s rural Australia is neither the time nor the place for others to understand her condition, nor provide support. This set of activities includes background notes and passages from the text that relate to Christine’s true personality, her relation with Romulus, her interraction with members of the Anglo-Celtic community, the effects of her illness on her life and relationship and the views of Christine from other character’s hindsight. Students are asked to list the positive and negative influences of Christine on the author, Raimond Gaita.

Romanian migrant, Hora is arguably the strongest character in Raimond Gaita’s memoir. he is certainly the most loyal family friend. This set of resources includes background notes on Hora, key passages from the text and student activities based on these. the last activity asks students to develop a mind map of incidents from the text in which Hora is a friend and mentor to Romulus and Raimond.

Worksheet and answers to the video, The Great Inca Rebellion. Video investigates the archaeological and written evidence concerning indigenous support for Pizarro in the Spanish conquest of Peru and in defending the newly established Spanish town of Lima on August 10, 1536 against an Incan attack. Designed for students of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 4 Depth Study 6: Expanding Contacts 6©: Spanish Conquest of the Americas

4 Cloze activities on the topic, Australia in World War II: Prime Minister John Curtin The Rats of Tobruk Japanese attacks on Darwin The Kokoda Trail Campaign These activities are designed for Stage 5 students of the NSW* History K-10 Syllabus of the Australian Curriculum*. Core Study 3: Australians at War - World War II.

Worksheet to accompany the video Tony Robinson’s Romans - Nero. Outstanding overview of Nero, his leadership of the Roman Empire, role of women in the imperial court, problems of the succession and changing image of the princips. It is particularly useful in meeting some of the required knowledge in: Higher School Certificate course. Section 3 - Personalities in their Times. Option J - Rome - Agrippina the Younger. Section 4 - Historical Periods. Option J - The Julio-Claudians CE 14-69. NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.

This worksheet accompanies the BBC documentary, Conquistadors. Episode 2: The Conquest of the Incas. The video is available on YouTube.

The 1979 Iranian Revolution was the result of economic, socio, political and religious reasons with both the Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini being large factors in the demonstrations of 1978-9 that led to the overthrow of Shah Mohommed Reza Pahlavi. This source-based task is designed for NSW students of the Modern History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Higher School Certificate course National Studies Option H: Iran 1953-1989