HistoriCool Resources

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

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! ✓

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

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

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

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

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

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

What do some sets of human footprints reveal about life in ancient Australia? Use The Willandra Footprints Resource Bundle to engage your students in the lives of Indigenous Australians before European settlement and how historians and archaeologists investigate this past. Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK083, ACDSEH031, ACDSEH148 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!

What would Australia be like today if it had never federated? Use the Australian Federation Resource Bundle to take a different approach to teaching Federation: from the assumption that it never happened! Encourage students to think about how their lives would differ, for better or worse. Australian Curriculum Link: ACHASSK134 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ 650-word engaging and entertaining article entitled Australia Un-Federated? targeted at 10-12

What does vegetable soup and fruit salad have to do with multiculturalism in Australia? Students will answer this question and more in this HistoriCool resource bundle! Use the Multiculturalism in Australia Resource Bundle to engage your students in a wider study of Australian immigration, multiculturalism and the White Australia Policy. Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK109, ACHASSK135, ACHASSK136 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ 700-word engaging a

First published January 2017 From the coolest mag in History comes a 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 Grade 4 History curriculum and integrate the Humanities into English and Literacy studies. (Because, let’s be honest, as much as we’d like it to be

First published January 2017 From the coolest mag in History comes a 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 Grade 5 History curriculum and integrate the Humanities into English and Literacy studies. (Because, let’s be honest, as much as we’d like it to be

What are some of Australia's most iconic places? And how have they - as well as places in our local area - changed over time? Use the Australian Icons & Environments Resource Bundle to engage your students in a study of Australian places and how they have changed and stayed the same though history. An ideal accompaniment to the Australian Curriculum Grade 3 topics ACHASSK063 and ACHASSK069 Australian Curriculum Links: ACHASSK063, ACHASSK069 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. S

Your family tree is as unique to you as your fingerprint! Help students climb their tree with this HistoriCool Resource Bundle. Use the Climbing Your Family Tree Resource Bundle to engage your students in the subject of genealogy and to lead in to a wider study of migration, multiculturalism and the role of different cultures in your country. Australian Curriculum Link: ACHASSK063 This resource is delivered as a PDF in A4 size. So, what's included? ✓ 850-word illustrated article entitled H

What are the characteristics of traditional stories? And what is the role of folk stories and fairytales in different cultures? Use the Fairytales & Folklore Resource Bundle to answer these questions and engage your students in a study of literature from different cultures around the world. Australian Curriculum Links: ACELT1594, ACELT1602 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