HISTORY’S A MYSTER SERIES

teacher Resource Kits

These comprehensive teacher resource kits are geared to Stage 3 learners (Years 5 & 6), although advanced Year 4 and many Year 7 students will also find the worksheets interesting and challenging.

The worksheets extend each adventure over a wide variety of subject areas, so teachers can readily choose an activity most suited to their class at a particular time.

The Technology page attached to each adventure allows students to research more information using the internet or library books.

  • Comprehension
  • Cloze Passage
  • Maths
  • Science
  • Technology
  • PDHPE

  • Art
  • Crossword
  • Music

Topics Covered in the Books:

* Australian History

Book 1: History’s a Mystery
  • Robin Hood
  • WW II Hiroshima
  • Ancient Rome
  • Thomas Edison
  • Eureka Stockade*
  • Antarctica with Shackleton*
  • Marco Polo
  • 1800’s Christmas
  • Dicken’s London
  • First Fleet Sydney Town*
  • Spartacus Pirates
  • Egyptian Pyramids
  • Slavery in USA
  • Pompeii & Mt Vesuvius
  • Camelot Castle
Book 3: History’s STILL a Mystery
  • Opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge *
  • The Sydney Olympics *
  • Klondike Gold Rush
  • Galileo in Pisa
  • The Terracotta Army
  • The Taj Mahal
  • The Hindenburg
  • Christmas in Africa
  • Braveheart
  • The Great Wall of China
  • Skara Brae
  • WW II The Warsaw Ghetto
  • The Incas
  • Jesus
  • Stonehenge
  • Florence Nightingale

Book 2: History’s a Mystery AGAIN
  • Musketeers
  • Mt Everest
  • The Ancient Olympics
  • Davy Crockett
  • Eiffel Tower
  • The Aztecs
  • Cavemen of Lascaux
  • WW I Gallipoli & Simpson
  • Shakespeare
  • The Titanic
  • Dinosaurs in Queensland*
  • The Vikings
  • Rainforest *
  • Man on the Moon *
  • Ned Kelly *
  • Jesus
  • Into the Future
  • San Francisco Earthquake
  • The Boston Tea Party
  • Darwin in Galapagos
Book 3: History’s a Mystery ONCE MORE
  • Samurai
  • Tutankhamen’s Tomb
  • The Bastille
  • Breaker Morant *
  • Cleopatra
  • Nine Eleven
  • An Underground City
  • Louisbourg
  • WW II Lancaster Bomber
  • Cyclone Tracy *
  • Mozart
  • Stanley & Livingstone
  • The Panama Canal
  • The Circus
  • Broome Pearl Divers *
  • Houdini
  • Rugby
  • Boudicca
  • Custer’s Last Stand

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