HistoriCool Resources

Who was the Mungo Man? And what does he tell us about Australia's first people? Use the Mungo Man Resource Bundle to engage your students in a study of the people of ancient Australia and techniques used by archaeologists and historians to investigate this part of Australia's past. Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK083, ACDSEH031 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓

Who were the convicts aboard the First Fleet? This classroom poster and related activities will help your students answer just that! Use the Convicts of the First Fleet Poster & Resource Bundle to engage your students in a wider study of Australia's colonial past or Australia Day. Australian Curriculum Link: ACHASSK085 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size, and the classroom poster is delivered in A2 size, but it can be resized for printing. So, what's included? ✓ An A2 classroom

If anyone Khan, Genghis Khan. And that he did in the 13th century, building one of the strongest empires the world has ever seen... Use the Mighty Mongol Empire Resource Bundle to engage your students in the Mongol Empire and a wider study of Asian cultures. Australian Curriculum Links: ACDSEH014, ACDSEH077, ACDSEH078 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size, in addition to an A3 printable boardgame. So, what's included? ✓ 650-word engaging article entitled The Mongol Empire & its Ma

What does the Eureka Stockade mean for all Australians? Use the Eureka Stockade Resource Bundle to engage your students in a study of the Victorian goldfields and the fight for rights that helped to underpin Australian democracy. Australian Curriculum Link: ACHASSK108 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓ Engaging 700-word biographical article entitled Eureka! It's Pet

How has technology changed over time, and how has it stayed the same? This is the question we aim to have your class answering with this HistoriCool resource bundle! Use the Technology Through Time Resource Bundle to engage your students in a wider study of changing technologies and change and continuity. Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK046, ACHASSK063 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and g

Was the printing press the most important invention to come out of the Renaissance? Use the Printing Press & Renaissance Inventions Resource Bundle to debate this question and engage your students in a study of the Renaissance and its important developments. Australian Curriculum Links: ACDSEH056 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓ Engaging 750-word article entitled T

What was Australia like before and after Federation? Use the Australian Federation Resource Bundle to engage students in Federation and Australia's earliest Prime Ministers. Students will come away with a detailed understanding of the push and pull factors of Federation and have a giggle at the curious antics of our first PMs along the way! Australian Curriculum Link: ACHASSK134 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic,

Who was Eddie Mabo? And what did he have to do with the land rights of Australia's indigenous population? Use the Mabo & Indigenous Land Rights Resource Bundle to answer these questions and engage your students in a study of the experiences of democracy of Aboriginal people after Federation, and the contribution that Eddie Mabo made to Australia and its history. Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK135, ACHASSK137 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens

Dreamtime stories are an important part of any Indigenous Australian study. What do your students know about them? Use the Dreamtime Stories Poster & Resource Bundle to engage your students in the Dreaming with the objective of having them write their very own! Australian Curriculum Link: ACHASSK062 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size, and the classroom poster is delivered in A2 size, but it can be resized for printing. So, what's included? ✓ A2 classroom poster including the Dr

How were Australia's Indigenous people once treated by the white public, the government and the law? Use the Indigenous Civil Rights Resource Bundle to answer this question and engage your students in a study of how Aboriginal Australians experienced democracy in decades past. Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK135 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓ Engaging 600-wor

How were Australia's legal and parliamentary systems developed? And what does the Magna Carta have to do with it?! Use the History, Law & Democracy Resource Bundle to ease your students in to their study of Australia's parliament by looking at some of the weirdest laws in the country that we derive our parliamentary system from: England! Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK143, ACDSEH091 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the

What was it like to participate in the Gallipoli campaign? Use the Gallipoli Resource Bundle to encourage students to approach this topic with empathy and respect, and gain an understanding about the where, who and why of the Gallipoli campaign. Australian Curriculum Links: ACDSEH095 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓ Emotive article entitled Stories from Gallipoli t

What were the experiences of soldiers inside Prisoner of War camps in World War II? Use the Prisoners of War Resource Bundle to answer this question and engage your students in a wider study of experiences of war. Australian Curriculum Links: ACDSEH108 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓ Engaging 800-word article entitled Chitty in Changi: An Unofficial Winner targete

What's the Aboriginal word for 'hello'? Use the Indigenous Australian Language & Connection Resource Bundle to engage your students in a study of the languages of Australia's first people, and what they tell us about the Indigenous connection to place. Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK062, ACHASSK083 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓ Engaging 700-word story entit

When an ancient body is found preserved in a bog, what happens next!? Use the Bog Bodies Resource Bundle to engage your students in a study of archaeological mystery-solving. Australian Curriculum Link: ACDSEH001, Australian Curriculum Link: ACDSEH029, Australian Curriculum Link: ACDSEH030, Australian Curriculum Link: ACDSEH148 This resource is delivered as a 13 page PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it!

Disasters: they rock our world, and they shape our history! Use the Natural Disasters Resource Bundle to engage your students in a study of natural disasters and their impacts on Australia and the world. Australian Curriculum Links: ACSSU075, ACSSU078, ACSSU096, ACHGK053 This resource is delivered as a 17 page PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓ Engaging and detailed article entitled Australian Natu

How to archaeologists and other history professionals investigate the ancient past? Use the Archaeology at Work Resource Bundle to answer this question and engage your students in their Year 7 study of investigating the past. Australian Curriculum Link: ACDSEH001 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the unit, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓ Engaging 800-word article entitled A Day in My Life on an Egyptian Exca

First published January 2017 From the coolest mag in History comes a 192-page Primary teaching companion for every Australian classroom. Keeping the engaging and entertaining nature you know from our magazines, Australian History: A Primary Teacher Companion provides teachers with fun articles, worksheets and ideas to meet each and every requirement of the upper-primary History curriculum and integrate the Humanities into English and Literacy studies. (Because, let’s be honest, as much as we’d

How do history professionals investigate the past and solve some of history's mysteries? Use the History Mysteries MEGA Resource Bundle to answer this question and engage your students in their Year 7 study of investigating the past. Australian Curriculum Link: ACDSEH001, ACDSEH030 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the unit, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓ Engaging 950-word article entitled Frozen: The World

Get your acting pants on for this fun, dreaming-inspired play! Use the Performing the Dreaming Resource Bundle to engage your students in a study of the dreaming and its significance to Indigenous Australians! Australian Curriculum Link: ACHASSK083 This resource is delivered as a 13 page PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ Dozens of ideas to introduce the topic, dig a little deeper and get creative with it! ✓ Playscript for dreaming-inspired play: Why the Bat has No Friends, containing