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This Biomes and Food Security unit is an extensive set of lesson plans and resources designed for 5+ weeks' worth of Year 9 Australian Geography. Specifically designed for teachers of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS), this unit of work contains over 200+ pages of content and lesson plans and is aligned to both the Australian Curriculum Versions 8.4 and 9. This entire unit of work was updated in 2026!The diverse range of content in this product is sure to engage your students and make your l

Inspired by Serial or Up and Vanished podcasts? Have students who love murder mystery or suspense stories? Want to get them writing their own podcast? This bundle includes EVERYTHING you need to run a complete podcast study that begins with genre foundations and ethics, moves through guided listening and analysis, and ends with students planning, scripting, and creating their own true crime podcast or trailer. It’s high-engagement, curriculum-aligned, and classroom-ready with scaffolding for all

This Water in the World unit is an extensive set of lesson plans and resources designed for 3+ weeks' worth of Year 7 Australian Geography. Specifically designed for teachers of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS), this unit of work contains over 200+ pages of content and lesson plans (slides, worksheets, case studies, water audits, activities, and Australian examples) and is aligned to the Australian Curriculum Version 9. This entire unit of work was updated in 2026!The diverse range of conte

Are you looking for a visual way to help your students summarize and synthesize the plot of a novel, play, movie, poem, podcast, or article? Do you want them to be able to easily identify where each theme can be found? Do they need help making useful notes that will help them in the lead up to essays, tests, and exams? This set of worksheets will help solve all of those crises. The circular design of the theme tracker wheel makes it easier for students to take notes on an entire chapter, act or

This Geographies of Interconnections unit is an expansive 4+ week unit for Year 9 Australian Geography students. Covering place and perceptions of place, interconnections, global trade, and tourism and overtourism. Specifically designed for teachers of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS), this extensive unit of work contains over 150+ pages of content and lesson plans and is aligned to ACARA Australian Curriculum Version 9. The content is engaging, interactive, and promotes a strong understand

Want to engage your students in a unique writing experience? Turn the challenges of planning a narrative into an immersive and engaging murder mystery learning stations activity! Students rotate through six interactive learning stations to build a complete murder mystery story while learning how to control information, build suspense, and structure an engaging narrative. Stations include: Incident, Victim, Suspects, Detective, Setting and Clues. By completing this activity, students will:🔍 Have

Encourage your students to get thinking about the Dystopian genre and foster excitement in learning about real-world issues that should matter to them! This 60+ page, low-prep unit guides students through the process of designing, mapping, creating a persuasive travel brochure, analysing, and evaluating a utopian society, while also critically examining how utopias can drift into dystopias over time. Perfect for supplementing class studies of The Giver, Uglies, The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games

Teach your students the basics of visual literacy and language techniques with this still image unit. Designed specifically for Australian teachers, each resource is created to show your students they ways in which photographers and content creators use visual and language techniques to inspire, inform, sell, and persuade. The entire unit (minus the annotation flip book) can be used digitally, printed and sent home as an individual work packet, or taught in the classroom. Perfect for any style o

Engage your students in the true crime genre with this podcast analysis unit, whilst also improving their critical thinking, literacy and comprehension skills! This Up and Vanished Episode 1 Analysis lesson is the perfect way to introduce students to podcast analysis, true crime genre conventions, and media literacy. Transform listening into learning with scaffolded activities, guided questions, and structured templates designed to build confidence and analytical skills. The amazing thing about

Ditch the boring grammar drills and make grammar meaningful, engaging, and manageable with this Grammar Learning Stations activity! This low-prep resource helps students build, revise, and apply essential grammar skills through five purposeful learning stations that balance rigour with engagement. Your students will interact with grammar in context, analysing real texts, colour-coding language features, constructing sentences, and explaining grammatical choices. What’s included:📒 Full-colour st

Year 10 Geography | Geographies of Human Wellbeing - An Australian Curriculum Aligned Unit of Work Based on Netlfix's Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones.If saving time on your Year 10 Geography planning sounds like a great idea, then this bundle of resources to help you teach Netflix's Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones docuseries is perfect for you. This Geographies of Human Wellbeing bundle is a 2+ week unit for Year 10 Australian Geography students. Specifically designed for teacher

This full term Year 9 Geography bundle includes everything you need to teach Biomes and Food Security and Geographies of Interconnections to your students. Specifically designed for teachers of Australian Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS), this unit of work contains over 350+ pages of content and lesson plans and is aligned to the Australian Curriculum (ACARA) Version 9. Included is two assessments with task sheets and rubrics. The diverse range of content in this product is sure to engage

Dystopian Short Film Analysis Bundle (2187, The Last Job on Earth & The Luckiest)Encourage real-world analysis of dystopian genre concepts such as power, control, conformity, technology, and responsibility through the study of three thought-provoking dystopian short films! This bundle is designed to provide a comprehensive set of thought-provoking worksheets that deepen students’ understanding of dystopian fiction while exploring how dystopian systems operate in subtle, modern, and unsettling wa

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Perfect for the Year 10 Australian Curriculum (ACARA), this bushfires unit includes lesson plans and is an engaging future-focused resource designed to help students understand bushfires in Australia. It requires minimal prep whilst still providing both rigour and discussion, movement and inquiry-based learning. Sit back and relax because you will have a clear and engaging Geography unit that focuses on their causes, impacts, and management strategies, and how climate change is shaping the futur

Want to introduce your students to the world's biomes but don't know where to start? Look no further than this product! Design for middle schoolers, this lesson can work either as a research project whereby students research one of five biomes and share their answers with a small group OR as a learning station activity where students are given the answers and just need to take notes in their flip books. This lesson is suitable for The Australian Curriculum (HASS) as well as international curricu

Get more bang for your buck with this bundle of resources required to teach conflict-themed poetry for 5-6 weeks! I designed these resources with students from years 8 –10 in mind. The bundle includes: The five step poetry analysis cheat sheet24 poetry key terms flashcardsScaffolded guide to the poem 'Who's for the Game?' Scaffolded guide to the poem 'Flag'Scaffolded guide to the poem 'Out of the Blue'Learning stations for the poem 'The Yellow Palm' including context, power words, annotations,

Take your students on an engaging virtual field trip around the world to explore and compare the liveability of global cities using Google Earth. This interactive resource guides students through major cities, including Tokyo, Melbourne, San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Singapore, encouraging them to observe, evaluate, and compare how people live in different urban environments. The tour has been written specifically for ACARA Year 7 Geography (Place and Liveability) but can easily be used for stru

Ready to take your students from true crime listeners to creators? In this scaffolded podcast creation unit, students will demonstrate their media literacy by using all of the common techniques used by true crime journalists. Students work in teams (but it can be done individually) to create a "true" crime story in the learning stations task, create a timeline of events, plan out evidence, and fake interviews before they hit record, start editing, and create their promotional content. This re

Save your sanity and use this engaging and dynamic bundle to introduce students to The Giver and to the dystopian genre. Students will love the fun activities and think critically about real-world issues. In here, you should find everything you need to teach The Giver to middle school students. I have put a lot of effort into creating dynamic and useful resources that will energise students and teachers alike. Resources included in this product include: Context learning stations and note taking