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Digital Citizenship Resources: Digital and Media Literacy

Find resources teaching students about copyright and plagiarism, support for efficient online search skills, and resources about digital privacy.

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Focus on Indonesia: Cross Curriculum Connections in Secondary Schools

Ideas and resources that connect the learning of Indonesian language with other learning areas.

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All Through the Year: Unit of Work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'All Through the Year' which is told through the eyes of a child and provides an account of a year in the life of an Australian family. Themes include celebrations, change, family and seasons. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment tasks and suggestions ...

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Alfred’s War: Unit of Work

This unit of work has been written to support 'Alfred’s War', which is a story that unmasks the lack of recognition given to Australian Indigenous servicemen who returned from the WWI battlelines. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment tasks and suggestions about how students might respond creatively to the text.

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Amy and Louis: Unit of Work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'Amy and Louis'. These two characters live next door to each other and their lives are closely intertwined until Amy’s family moves to another country. Explore themes of friendship, connection and separation. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment ...

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The All New Must Have Orange 430: Unit of Work

This unit of work has been written to support 'The All New Must Have Orange 430' picture story book. The book explores the themes of advertising, materialism, recycling and the environment. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment tasks and suggestions about how students might respond creatively to the text.

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Banjo and Ruby Red: Unit of work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'Banjo and Ruby Red'. The story is a funny and touching story of antagonism and love. Explore themes of country life, compassion, friendship, opposites and responsibility. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment tasks and suggestions about how students ...

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Are We There Yet?: Unit of Work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'Are We There Yet?' The book explores the themes of family, holidays, journey, place and travel. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, assessment tasks and suggestions about how students might respond creatively to the text.

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Ash Road: Unit of work

This unit of work has been written to support the story 'Ash Road'. The novel is a highly descriptive and intense action-based novel based on the bush fires of 1962 when a hilly area outside of Melbourne was devastated by fire. Themes include connection to place, emotional growth, natural disaster, relationships, resilience ...

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Mummification in Bronze Age Britain

This resource is about the discovery of two Bronze Age mummies in Britain. It describes the discovery by a team of archaeologists of the bodies of a male and a female under the floor of a prehistoric house on the Hebridean Island of South Uist. It presents the evidence for mummification following investigations using archaeological ...

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Religion in late imperial China, 1644-1911

This online resource offers a comprehensive overview of the many forms of religion in late imperial China. It includes a detailed overview of religion under the following four headings: Religion in China: an overview; Popular religion and beliefs; Institutional religion: the three teachings; and Religion, the state and ...

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Enslavement and industrialisation

This resource is about the slave-based trade with the Americas and its contribution to Britain in the 18th century and today. The resource is organised under the following topic headings: Consumers and slaves; the Atlantic boom; Slave-related trade; Profit margins; Inherited privilege; and Find out more. It includes text, ...

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Beneath the surface: social reports as primary sources

This resource is about a report on the public heath conditions of Leeds in 1842 by a medical doctor, Robert Baker. It provides a background to the report along with information on Robert Baker and his credentials for undertaking the investigation. Extracts from the report describe the poor conditions of sanitation, the ...

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Chartist Movement 1838-48

This resource is about the Chartist Movement, a movement for the political rights of working people in Britain. It gives a brief history of the movement and describes the three petitions with millions of signatures that were presented to parliament in 1839,1842 and 1848. It is organised under the following headings: the ...

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Britain's empire in 1815

This resource is about the British Empire after the defeat of Napoleon as Britain emerged dominant among the European great powers and was recognised as one of the world's great imperial powers. It shows through a series of maps the extent of the British Empire in 1815, with three disparate parts: North America, the eastern ...

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Naachtun: lost city of the Maya

This resource is about the Mayan city of Naachtun rediscovered by archaeologists in 1922. It provides background material on the archaeological visits to the Mayan site from 1922 through to 2002, and describes the remnants of the structures and artefacts of the city, including stone monuments carved with hieroglyphic inscriptions ...

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Social pecking order in the Roman world

This interactive resource is about the social structure of Ancient Rome. It includes detailed information about the stratification of Roman society and how this affected people's lives. The topics covered are: Legal status; Citizen and non-citizen - which includes information about the imperial hierarchy, the Senate and ...

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Colours: describing hair and eyes

This collection of interactive and printable resources introduces the words for colours, and the functions to describe people's hair and eyes. It focuses on core questions and answers: 'Come sono i tuoi capelli - i tuoi occhi?', 'Ho i capelli - gli occhi ...' and 'Com'è ...?' Translations, solutions and hints throughout ...

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Do you like ...?

This collection of interactive and printable resources introduces ways of expressing simple likes and dislikes using 'mi piace' or 'non mi piace' and the core question 'Che cosa ti piace?' It focuses on hobbies, sports and simple everyday activities to contextualise questions and answers. Translations, solutions and hints ...

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Expressions

This collection of digital and printable resources introduces some core expressions like 'delizioso', 'attento', 'aiuto' and 'guarda'. It focuses on the expressions in isolation as well as in simple scenarios. Translations and solutions are also provided. This is section 22 of 36 from Languages online Italian resources, ...