This unit was designed for VCE year 11 students undertaking unit 2, comparing and contrasting. The PowerPoint includes a variety of learning activities , essay questions, writing frames, an assessment rubric and revision resources.

This lesson uses primary source evidence to look at the British arrival in Australia and encourages students to make a judgement about whether this arrival should be considered an invasion. ** The lesson uses a range of clips, the most important being the first 16 minutes of the first episode of an Australian documentary called "First Australians." Content is currently available on YouTube and the First Australians website http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/

This is 1.5 hour lesson first looks at the methods that the British used to control the Irish in Ireland from the 17th to the 20th century. The second half of the lesson is focused on the way Irish people resisted this control.