Resources for teachers
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ONLINE
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'Back in Time for Dinner' on ABC TV Education
An Aussie family joins Annabel Crabb on a time-travelling adventure to discover how the food we eat, family roles and the fabric of the nation have transformed over the past 60 years.
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'Kids React to Technology' on YouTube is fantastic.
- phones, typewriters, cassette players, old cameras.
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Read the old Queensland school readers
https://education.qld.gov.au/about-us/history/history-topics/queensland-school-readers
Making Butter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk9MJNSsTpY
Elastics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lEmfq_NDlU
Getting dressed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ivntz8DbY
How did they go to the Toilet in those clothes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHeSTDv_24
Victorian Schools
Delightful Australian reenactment of a Victorian era classroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOmrCi-mh_k
BOOKS
'The Ekka', 'A Very Ratty Problem' by Sandra Watkins https://brisbanekids.com.au/kids-books-brisbanes-history/
Reading fiction about our early history is a good way to expand your own background knowledge, without any hard work.
Try these historical novels:
Kate Grenville: The Lieutenant, Sarah Thornhill, Secret River
Carol Preston: Mary's Guardian, Tangled Secrets
A.B. Facey: A Fortunate Life
Jackie French (Y.A.): Nanberry: Black Brother White; Gold, Graves and Glory; The Matilda series
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