Australian History Mysteries for Secondary Schools
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Australian History Mysteries for Secondary Schools
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‘Walking in the Footsteps of the Condah Anzacs’ is a multimedia on-line education resource to help middle secondary students explore the Year 9 in depth study — World War I (1914-1918)

Students investigate key aspects of World War I and the Australian experience of the war, including the nature and significance of the war in world and Australian history.

Each and every community in Australia was asked to contribute to the war effort and In this unit you will investigate how the tiny community of Condah in the western district of Victoria responded. Forty one men enlisted, 15 of whom were Aboriginal men from the Lake Condah Mission Station.

Join Tim Gurry as he ‘walks in the footsteps’ of these brave men, tracing their wartime experiences both at home and on the Western Front.

You will then be able to use this knowledge, approach and structure to investigate the impact of World War 1 upon your own community and how this impact is commemorated today.


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YEAR 9 SPECIAL BONUS UNIT FOR THE IN DEPTH CASE STUDY: Movement of peoples (1750 - 1901) 

Who were the Orphan Girls who came to Australia in the 1840s?

In this unit you can investigate the experiences of a very specific group of arrivals to the colonies in the mid C19th. They helped make the Australia we have today and have lots of descendants. 

They were free assisted migrants but were very different to other migrants of this type. They were orphan girls – more than 4,000 of them – who were taken from the workhouses in Ireland and sent to Australia to become domestic servants and wives for the colonial settlers.

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— History Teacher, Saint Mary Star of the Sea School, Carnarvon WA

Australian History Mysteries is a subscription-based website containing inquiry learning case studies that are directly relevant to the Australian Curriculum: History (and the state and territory equivalents) Years 7, 9 and 10. Its current 22 case studies include a wealth of video, print and interactive content, and its inquiry learning approach encourages historical skills development, including equipping students with the capacity to develop historical thinking and imagination.

 
  • High quality videos
  • Interactive modules and games
  • Inquiry-learning units of work - on-line and PDF
CASE STUDIES
  • What are the Mysteries of Lake Mungo?
  • Who ‘discovered Australia’?
  • Myths and mysteries of the crossing of the Blue Mountains
  • What was the life of a female convict really like?
  • The Eureka Rebellion – could you have stopped it from happening?
  • What happened in a frontier conflict near Broome in 1864?
  • Was Ned Kelly a hero or a villain?
  • What does Springfield tell us about colonial life?
  • World War 1 – Did WWI divide or unite local communities?
  • NEW Walking in the Footsteps of the Condah Anzacs
  • NEW Who were the Orphan Girls who came to Australia in the 1840s?
  • Coniston Massacre – What happened at Coniston in 1928?
  • What happened to ‘Smithy’?
  • Great Depression – Testing images of the Great Depression
  • Why did the Government lie about the bombing of Darwin?
  • What are the mysteries of Maralinga?
  • Snowy Hydroelectric Scheme – A melting pot of different nations?
  • How have Indigenous people's citizenship rights changed over time?
  • Vietnam – Can you be a Vietnam War ‘myth buster’?
  • What happened to Juanita Nielsen?
  • NEW Who was Robert Mactier?
  • NEW Who were the Australian Commandos? What was their role in World War II?

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