Revision activity for Ruth Park’s novel, Playing Beatie Bow. Students decide if the statements about the text are true or false.

Eric Bogle's 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' is a classic story of an Anzac soldier at Gallipoli and living with the injuries he sustained there. The song is highly evocative and told in the first person. The soldier describes his experiences at Gallipoli and afterwards in hospital and after returning to Australia. The set of activities includes: 1. What did you learn about the experiences of Anzac soldiers at Gallipoli and after the war? 2. How did the song make feel? Why? 3. How does Eric Bogle use language and tone to help you feel this way? 4. Is the song for or against war? Why?

Powerpoint on the Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Site. Part of unit of work on The Investigation of Historical Sites and Sources: New England. Designed for students of the NSW Modern History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Preliminary Course Investigating Modern History – The Nature of Modern History Topic 1. The Investigation of Historic Sites and Sources This Powerpoint looks at the Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Site and provides students with activities: You have been employed by Gwydir Shire Council to: 1. Consult on community needs regarding the current Myall Creek Memorial site. Who would you speak to? Why? 2. Enhance the memorial. What would you do to improve the memorial? 3. Produce educational materials based on the importance of the site. What would these be?

Unit of work on The Investigation of Historical Sites and Sources: New England. Designed for students of the NSW Modern History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Preliminary Course Investigating Modern History – The Nature of Modern History Topic 1. The Investigation of Historic Sites and Sources This unit includes: + What were the responses to the Myall Creek Massacre? Source-based inquiry task + Australia on Trial: The Myall Creek Massacre. Worksheet for video + The Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Site Powerpoint presentation and activities

Scaffolded research task on tractors. includes questions on historical development, different applications on Australian farms, implements that can be attached to tractors, uses in specific cropping and grazing enterprises, ways to reduce tractor accidents and common mechanical problems with tractors. This task is designed for students studying the NSW Agricultural Technology Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. Stage 5 Farm Tools and Machinery.

Information report task on the topic Farm Tools and Machinery. The topic is: What are five commonly used farm tools and machinery? What safety issues can arise from the use of these tools and machinery? The resource includes advice on the structure and language features required to write an effective information report and a marking guide (rubric) to the task. Designed for Stage 5 Agricultural Technology students of the Australian Curriculum.

Possibly the most traumatised character in Stasiland, Frau Paul carries guilt and shame. The irony, as Anna Funder points out, is that others see her as a hero for standing by her principles despite Stasi retribution. This set of activities includes background information, quotes from the text and a task involving collating information on Frau Paul and her life.

This resource includes a map of central Victoria with the key places discussed in the text. A student activity asks students to write the events that take place in 9 of these locations. The next activity provides passages from the text that describe Baringhup and the influence of the setting on the author.

Activity applying the principles of visual literacy to book covers and images from the film, Romulus, My Father.

Farm Tools and Machinery findaword

Romulus, My Father - Activities for Chapters 1-6

Analysis of a book review on Romulus, My Father.

Empathy task for the topic Spanish Conquest of the Americas. Students imagine they are an Aztec commander who has been ordered by Montezuma to engage the Spanish conquistadors in a street battle in Tenochtitlan. Students are provided with the structure and language features of narrative writing and are encouraged to use all their senses in writing a description of what they see, smell, hear, taste, and touch as well as what they sense about their situation. A marking guide (rubric) is provided.

Worksheet for the video, Former Stasi Agents Defend Their Deeds. Includes answers.

Three cloze activities on the topic, Spanish Conquest of the Americas: Conquistadors Why did Pizarro attack the Incas? Spanish exploration of North America

The Stasi used imprisonment and the threat of imprisonment to silence the people of East Germany. This set of activities includes information on imprisonment in East Germany, extracts from the text and an activity requiring students to make a mind map from the information provided.

Worksheet to accompany a 9-minute 2009 news item from Deutsche Welle television on efforts by the German Ministry of Information to piece together destroyed East German Stasi files and to allow citizens to access their files. Excellent resource for the teaching of the text, Stasiland.

Like Alice, Anna falls through the rabbit hole into the strange world of Berlin in 1990 and into the world of people’s memories of East Germany, 1945-1989. As a stranger in a strange land, she must question everything she thought was real to make sense of a society where suspicion, surveillance, double-speak and danger govern everyones life. This resource provides background on Anna Funder as author and as a character in her own text. It provides passages from the text and activities relating to the background and character of Anna.

This scaffolded research activity allows students to focus on Cortés’ personality, influences on his life, motivations to conquer the Aztec Empire, leadership and military skills, treatment of First Nations peoples, positive contributions to the history of Mexico and an assessment of whether Cortés was a hero or a villain. Three sources are provided for students to analyse to gain information on the character of Hernán Cortés. The activities are designed for better-able to Gifted and Talented learners of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus. Stage 4 Depth Study 6: Expanding Contacts 6©: Spanish Conquest of the Americas

Activity using the principles of visual literacy to analyse 6 different covers to the English language editions to Anna Funder’s Stasiland: colour, people, content, critical response and medium.