Engaging and relevant. This is the essence of my teaching and learning resources. You'll find a wealth of History, Agricultural Technology, Retail Services, Aboriginal Studies and more.
Engaging and relevant. This is the essence of my teaching and learning resources. You'll find a wealth of History, Agricultural Technology, Retail Services, Aboriginal Studies and more.
This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding of the NSW Ancient History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.
Higher School Certificate course
Ancient Societies
Option G: Spartan society to the Battle of Leuctra 371 BC
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 History Australian National Curriculum
Stage 5
Depth Study 6: School Developed Topic
Australia in the Vietnam War Era.
Students analyse a variety of visual and written primary and secondary source materials to develop an understanding of the circumstances surrounding the My Lai Massacre of 1968 and the impact of the event on the Australian and American public.
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.
Expert shipwrights & navigators, the Vikings mastered the construction of longboats, freight ships, passenger ships & fishing vessels. Their technical expertise enabled them to travel from Vinland to RussIa, the Byzantine Empire to the Arctic Ocean &possibly to Lousiana and Western Australia! This Powerpoint presentation supports the teaching of the NSWHistory syllabus for the Australian Curriculum
Stage 4
Depth Study 4: The Western and Islamic World
4(a) The Vikings
There are a variety of differentiated and extension activities in the last few slides that are applicable to Gifted and Talented, regular mixed-ability and specialist classes including classes for students with Autism, Emotional Disorders, Intellectual Disability and Behaviour Disorders. These can be adapted to the specific learning needs of students in most schools
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: The Roaring Twenties
Students analyse a variety of primary and secondary, visual and written sources to determine whether the post-WWI Commonwealth of Australia Soldier Settlement Program actually created "a land fit for heroes". Was this program was actually successful. The Soldier Settlement program promised WWI veterans a chance to realise their dream: a farming patch to call their own, on which they could make a living and raise a family. Sound good? But could they really make their windfall a success in the tough Australian bush?
Teaching visual literacy is everyone's responsibility. This poster was designed as part of a cross-curriculum promotional campaign to teach staff in all faculties in a New England NSW high school about visual literacy being a component of literacy in every area of the curriculum and also to provide students with an example of how a visual image can be deconstructed to find the hidden messages. This poster is an example of how the techniques of visual literacy can be used in English language classes. It applies an excellent template developed by the English Teacher's Association of NSW to a movie poster.
This resource includes two pages of visually-appealing source materials on the life of an Aztec woman. Students must analyse the source materials and then make a pitch to a television company on the life of an Aztec woman so that they can film an historical series on the Spanish invasion of Mexico. Students must imagine they are the Aztec woman so that the series is authentic. The activity includes a rubric/marking guide and is linked to outcomes in the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.
This resource includes two pages of visually-appealing source materials on the life of an Aztec warrior. Students must analyse the source materials and then make a pitch to a television company on the life of an Aztec warrior so that they can film an historical series on the Spanish invasion of Mexico. Students must imagine they are the Aztec warrior so that the series is authentic. The activity includes a rubric/marking guide and is linked to outcomes in the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.
This resource includes two pages of visually-appealing source materials on the life of an Aztec merchant. Students must analyse the source materials and then make a pitch to a television company on the life of an Aztec merchant so that they can film an historical series on the Spanish invasion of Mexico. Students must imagine they are the Aztec merchant so that the series is authentic. The activity includes a rubric/marking guide and is linked to outcomes in the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.
This resource includes two pages of visually-appealing source materials on the life of an Aztec farmer. Students must analyse the source materials and then make a pitch to a television company on the life of an Aztec farmer so that they can film an historical series on the Spanish invasion of Mexico. Students must imagine they are the Aztec farmer so that the series is authentic. The activity includes a rubric/marking guide and is linked to outcomes in the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.
This resource includes two pages of visually-appealing source materials on the life of an Aztec slave. Students must analyse the source materials and then make a pitch to a television company on the life of an Aztec slave so that they can film an historical series on the Spanish invasion of Mexico. Students must imagine they are the Aztec slaveso that the series is authentic. The activity includes a rubric/marking guide and is linked to outcomes in the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.
Teaching visual literacy is everyone's responsibility! This poster was designed as part of a cross-curriculum promotional campaign to teach staff in all faculties in a New England NSW high school about visual literacy being a component of literacy in every area of the curriculum and to also provide students with an example of how a visual image can be deconstructed to find the hidden messages. this poster is an example of how the techniques of visual literacy can be used in French language classes. It applies an excellent template developed by the English teacher's Association of NSW to a comic.
This resource has been developed for the NSW 7-10 Agricultural Technology syllabus, unit on Farm Tools and Machinery. It has been used with both a regular mixed-ability class and a class for students with Emotional Disorders (ED). The activities within the resource can be adapted for Gifted and Talented and classes for students with Intellectual Disabilities (IM/IO). The resource focuses on how quad bikes are used on Australian properties, safety issues and recreational use. There are both literacy and numeracy activities. Some activities require internet access. Other activities can be completed using only the information on the pages. This makes the activities ideal for students to use on school farms/agricultural plots after practical work has been completed.
This is a source-based homework task to support student understanding of the NSW Stage 6 Ancient History syllabus
Higher School Certificate course
Part III - Personalities & Their Times
Option H - Alexander the Great
Students analyse a variety of primary and secondary written sources to come to an understanding as to why Cleitus, a military leader who had saved Alexander's life at the Battle of the Granicus, was then murdered by him a few years later.
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 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 6: School–Developed Topic
Australia in the Vietnam War Era
Students analyse a variety of primary and secondary, written and visual sources to explore the role of Australian nurses in the Vietnam War and to come to a decision about whether they can accurately be described as "Angels at their Bedside".
From longhouses to log cabins, turf houses to farm buildings, the Vikings constructed a variety of houses that were adapted to different environmental and social circumstances. This Powerpoint presentation supports the teaching of the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum
Stage 4
Depth Study 4 - The Western and Islamic World
4a - The Vikings
This is an excellent presentation that covers construction, urban and rural living, rooms within houses, roles of members of the family, furniture and decorations. There are some tried and tested differentiated and extension activities in the last slides that make the presentation appropriate to students in Gifted and Talented and regular mixed-ability classes. The presentation and activities can be adapted to specialist classes such as classes for students with Emotional Disabilities, Intellectual Disabilities, Autism and Behaviour Disorders.