Set of activities on the character, Jeffrey Lu from Craig Silvey’s novel, Jasper Jones.

Mongol military success lay with the use of terror, high level of horsemanship, communication and the use of spies and informers. In this set of activities students examine these factors before writing a narrative response, imagining they are a Mongol soldier outside the walls of Samarkand in 1218. The activity is to support student understanding of the NSW History syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Stage 4 Depth Study 6: Expanding Contacts 6(a): The Mongol Expansion Great opportunity to explore the use of terror as a weapon in military conflict and social control.

the theme of Child-Parent Relationships is pervasive in the novel Hitler's Daughter. Marks positive relationship with his parents in Wallaby Creek today contrasts with Heidi's relationship with Duffi in Germany in the early 1940s. But in both cases, parents and children are not perfect.

Little Tracey is an imaginative 5-year old girl who is experiencing stress at commencing school. To help her settle in the other children invent The Story Game. The activity attached to Little Tracey's character profile requires to list similarities and differences between the character of Little Tracey and very young children that the reader may know.

Crossword & answers on Aztec Society. Supports student understanding of the NSW History syllabus of the Australian Curriculum Stage 4 Depth Study 6: Expanding Contacts 6c: The Spanish conquest of the Americas

This mix and match activity requires students to match the name of the employment fields from the 1900-1914 era with an explanation of what the job entailed.

This worksheet requires students to use the internet to find investigate some of the dangers of using common equipment on Australian farms and to make decisions on how the equipment should be handled safely. I use it as part of the NSW Stage 5 Agricultural Technology course, topic on Farm Tools and Machinery. The focus is on farm management, safety and sustainability.

This is a program for the unit of work Persia - Cyrus II to the death of Darius III and meets the requirements of the NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum. It includes objective, outcomes, content, learning across the curriculum, differentiation for Special Education learners, Gifted and Talented learners and English as Another Language or Dialect (EAL/D) learners.

Word search using key words and concepts from the topic Australia in World War II. Stage 5 History. Depth Study 3 - Australians at War - World War II. 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.

Worksheet to accompany the 8-minute animated documentary, Life in Nazi Germany. This video is available on YouTube.

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 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 a Mathematics class. It applies an excellent template developed by the English Teacher's Association of NSW to a newspaper graphic.

This poster is part of a series demonstrating how the techniques of visual literacy can be applied in every subject so that students can deconstruct a visual image in order to find the hidden meanings behind the image. In this poster a screen shot of computer screen demonstrates the use of pose, lighting and tone, mood and atmosphere and audience. Visual literacy is a great way to help students build extended responses. There is a template on the second page that can be used as a scaffold.

Visual literacy can be used in Physical Education. Don't believe me? The skills of deconstructing a visual image in order to discover the hidden meanings behind the image are a great way to build student's analytical skills and to use this information to write short-answer and extended responses. The resource includes a poster with 4 aspects of visual literacy and a template with content, medium, emotional response and critical response. You will never look at another sports photo in the same way again!

This is an assessment task for the topic Conflict in Indochina. It is designed for students of the NSW Modern History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Higher School Certificate course Peace and Conflict Option C: Conflict in Indochina 1945-1975. It includes 10 multiple choice questions and a source-based activity on guerrilla warfare.

The largest pressure group in Australian politics in the period 1900-1914, the Australian Labor Movement lobbied for improved worker rights and conditions. This activity involves a passage that can be read as a class and then discussion as to whether the statements are true or False. It is part of the topic Making a Nation. Australia 1900-1914.

This set of resources includes a crossword, word search and solutions. It is designed for the topic Conflict in Indochina 1945-1975 in the NSW Modern History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Higher School Certificate course Peace and Conflict Option C: Conflict in Indochina 1945-1975

This is a comprehension activity on the Iranian Hostage Crisis. It gives a great overview of the issue before delving deeper into its effects on Iran's international relations, particularly with the USA. it is designed for the NSW Modern History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Higher School Certificate Course National Studies Option G: Iran 1953-1989

This is an assessment task for the topic Persia - Cyrus II to the death of Darius III and is in line with the NSW Ancient History Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum and with BOSTES assessment requirements. The task includes 3 secondary sources on the building program at Persepolis commenced by Darius I and continued by succeeding Achaemenid kings.

Metalanguage mix and match activity using key words and concepts from Craig Silvey’s novel, Jasper Jones.