Australian history homework help

1895 Australian bush home

• Australian History from Gwondaland, Dinosaurs and Aborigines to modern day politics.
• White Settlement Timeline for Australia
• Australian bushrangers - outlaws in the 1800's.
• Captain Thunderbolt
• Matthew Brady - the gentleman bushranger
• The Australian Goldrush

History Homework help

History Homework help
     

• World War 1 and World War 2  BBC Co UK
• Ancient History  - BBC includes Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Anglo Saxons, Mesopotamia and the Mayans BBC
• The Roman Empire children's section where you take a trip to ancient Rome - gladiators, houses, clothes, games, emperors.
• History for Kids  bbc.co has Romans, Anglo Saxons, Scots and Picts, Vikings, Celts, Ancient Greece and revision
• Australian bushrangers - outlaws in the 1800's.
• American History Primary Sources  - The early years of America. What was life like for people in the past? One way to learn more is to read or view primary sources = firsthand information from the past. From Houghton Mifflin Company
• Native American Images and History

Learn all about bees

Lots of information about bees

How do bees cling to flowers?

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The New 7 Wonders of the Modern World

The new seven wonders are all equal and not meant to be listed in any particular order:

Chichen Itza in the Yucatán, Mexico

Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Colosseum in Rome, Italy
Great Wall of China in Beijing, China Machu Picchu in Peru
Petra in Jordan
Taj Mahal in Agra, India RESOURCE: World of New Wonders

MOUNT EVEREST

MOUNT EVEREST AERIAL VIEW TAKEN BY NASA

Where is Mount Everest?:  In the Himalayan Mountain Range. Part is in Nepal and part is in Tibet.
Who was it named after?: Sir George Everest recorded the location of the mountain in 1841.  At this time the British ruled India and he was the Surveyor General of India.     
Who climbed it first?: Edmund Percival Hilary, a New Zealander and Tensing Norgay a Nepalese guide are the first men to reach the top of the mountain in 1953.  Climbing is a team effort and both men sign a statement to say they reached the top together.                                                                              
Who is the youngest climber?: Christopher Harris will attempt to be the youngest person to reach the top in 2006.  He is an Australian who has been rock climbing since he was 5 years old.
When:                                                                                                  
1848  The height of the mountain is calculated by the British as 30,200 feet.  
1852  It is named the highest mountain in the world. 
1865 It is named after Sir George Everest.  Before this it was called Chomolungma in Tibet and Sagarmatha in Nepal.
1953 on May 29th Hillary and Tensing Norgay reach the top.
1955 The height is changed to 29,028 feet (8848 metres)   
Why people want to climb it: Edmund Hillary said, when asked why he had to climb it "Because it is there."   
How is it climbed?: The mountain is climbed very slowly and with the need for extra oxygen at the end.

Norman Lindsay Festival of Children's Literature 2012

Norman Lindsay Gallery, Faulconbridge, Australia
Photo thanks to Peter Woodward.

The home of The Magic Pudding celebrates on Sunday 25 March at the Norman Lindsay Gallery in Faulconbridge . There will be talks and workshops with authors and illustrators craft, face painting, an Australian animal display and entertainment as well as stalls and plenty of food.
This year's featured authors and illustrators include Emily Rodda, Sarah Davis, Oliver Phommavanh and Dub (David) Leffler and they promise lots of tips for writers young and old.



Find out more about the Children's Literature Short Story Competition 2012 for students aged 12 years and under to submit a short story of no more than 1000 words.

Writer and artist Norman Lindsay 1931

SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

What were they? Seven remarkable man made buildings      
When was the list made?
The final list of the Seven Wonders was compiled during the Middle Ages.  Only two of the seven were not Greek built. Do you know which two they were?

1. The Great Pyramid of Egypt
2. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
3. The Statue of Zeus at Olympia in Greece
4. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
5. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
6. The Colossus of Rhodes
7.  The Lighthouse of Alexandria 

Pyramids

Statue of Zeus

Hanging Gardens of Babylon
with Tower of Babel at left

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus,
depicted here in a hand-coloured engraving,
by Philips Galle in  1572

Convicts,

Convicts in New Holland, wash drawing, 19.5 x 12.5 cm
By Felipe Bauza in 1793

What was life like for a convict in New South Wales?
Find out at an interactive site:

• Choose a convict
• What crimes did they commit?
• What work they had to do?
• What did they wear?
• How would they be punished if they didn’t obey the rules?
• What was their journey to Australia like?
• What the convicts did in their small amount of free time?

DRAWING: Felipe Bauza - drawings made on the Spanish Scientific Expedition to Australia and the Pacific in the ships Descubierta and Atrevida under the command of Alessandro Malaspina, 1789-94,  held at the State Library of New South Wales

SEVEN WONDERS OF THE NATURAL WORLD

There is no agreed upon world wide list - this one was made by CNN:

Grand Canyon, USA

Great Barrier Reef Queensland, Australia

View of the entrance into the harbour of Rio de Janeiro with the Sugarloaf, Gloria Church painted in 1824 by Robert Dampier   (1799–1874)







Harbour of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Aerial view of Mount Everest taken by NASA











Mount Everest

Aurora

 The cinder cone soon after its birth in 1943 in a Mexican cornfield










Parícutin volcano, in Mexico

Mosi-oa-Tunya (the Smoke that Thunders)






Victoria Falls Livingstone, Zambia, Zimbabwe Africa

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