These sites compliment the video "Siege: castles at war"Knights
Castles on the web
Stronghold heaven - a game/webquest about castles
Castles of Britain
Medieval Siege Warfare
Siege Weapons
STUDIES OF SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT
State Library of Victoria - ERGO - Research and Essay Writing Help
| Atlapedia Online
maps, facts and
statistics plus teaching resources |
| GeographyIQ online atlas with geographic, cultural and
historical
information |
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Club site that celebrates indigenous
culture, especially aimed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
children. Includes
information on all aspects of indigenous life. |
Welcome to the Stone Age - The Shamun will show you Stone Age houses, food, weapons, art and ceremonies. Double click on the pictures to make them much bigger.
Stone Age Habitats - lots of good pictures of huts and tents. Look for the house made from mammoth bones!
Stone Age Hand-axes -scroll down the page for pictures of tools
Exploring Ancient World
Cultures
Exploring ancient cultures - follow the links
to some worthwhile site exploring ancient cultures - follow the links to some
worthwhile sites. A big collection of source material on Ancient, Medieval and
Modern History.
Internet History
Sourcebooks
Some interesting information can be found on this
site although it requires a lot of navigation
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World
Egyptomania
There
is lots of information as well as quizzes, colouring
figures, an archaeological dig, build a pyramid and much more.
Trinity
College's Ancient Egypt page - webquests and resources
(with links to other Ancient civilizations pages)
Ancient Egypt from the British Museum. This site has information about Egyptian life, geographical features of both ancient and modern Egypt, Gods and Goddesses, mummification, Pharaohs, Pyramids and temples. Also examines how time was kept in ancient Egypt, and trades, including jewellery-making and carpentry. A chapter on writing outlines the scripts used in ancient Egypt.
Mysteries of the Nile Explore the Pyramids, temples, and other monumental architecture of ancient Egypt through riveting 360~ photos shot during this NOVA/PBS Online Adventure. With real-time dispatches and digital photos filed from the Nile in March 1999 and from a quarry in Massachusetts in August and September 1999, the adventure chronicles both NOVA's search for archaic clues to obelisk-raising, and its attempt to erect one of these pillars of stone itself
Egypt - Secrets of an Ancient World from National Geographic. Explore the pyramids of ancient Egypt through diagrams, photos, and facts. This National Geographic website has interactive features and adventures, photographic galleries and 'breaking news'. It explains why the pyramids were built, who built them, and their development in complexity.
Winged
Sandals an interactive site with information and games about Greek myths
and legends.
The Encyclopaedia
Mythica
This is a huge database on mythology and
folklore.
Ancient Rome
Daily life in Ancient
Rome
Ancient China
Daily Life in
Ancient China
http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Chinalife.html
This
site tracks the daily activities of the average and not so average Chinese
citizen.
The Middle
Ages
Life in the Middle
Ages.
Information on King Arthur, weapons, The Black Death and much
more! Also provides many useful links.
http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/index.html
The
Medieval Sourcebook.
Excellent site for all sorts of information on
the Medieval period.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
These sites compliment the video "Siege: castles at war"
Knights
Castles
on the web
Stronghold
heaven - a game/webquest about
castles
Castles
of Britain
Medieval
Siege Warfare
Siege Weapons
Black Friday tells the whole story of the Black Friday bushfire of 1939 – listen to and read eye witness accounts, read the newspaper reports and Royal Commission findings
Pyroclastic Flows and Their Effects
Parliament of Australia
About Citizenship
Constitutional Centenary Foundation
Victorian Parliament
Parliamentary Education Office
Australian
Electoral Commission
Back to
Top
Uteman
NRMA
Holden
Ford
Carfinder
RACV
Drive
Carpoint
E-auto
Parliamentary Library Home Page
(Australian
Government)
Australian Electoral Commission
The Australian
Politics Resource
This site has a lot of information on current affairs,
political parties, the electoral system, political articles, links to Hansard
and the Australian Government home page, and a copy of the
Constitution.
Back to Top
HyperHistory
Online
This site is huge presenting 3000 years of world history.
There are four themes: people, history, events and maps. A great resource for
ideas and statistics.
History of the
World
This site contains a wealth of information on world
history..
Trenches on the
Web
An outstanding resource on the
history of World War I.
Powers of
Persuasion - Poster Art of World War II
Has lots of posters from Nazi
Germany
Teacher's Guide to the
Holocaust
The site provides a factual but chilling account of the
Holocaust, its victims and perpetrators.
National Women's History Project
A great
site dealing with the issues surrounding the rise of the women's movement. A
very good chronological record of significant events.
Australian War Memorial Website
An
excellent site. The Roll of Honour database has service records for soldiers
killed in war
Modern History
Site
Germany, Italy and
Japan between WW1 and 2. Links to information about the holocaust and
propaganda
A teacher's guide to the
holocaust - an overview of people and events of the time (not just for
teachers)
Vietnam War 1962–75
From the Australian War Memorial
Investigating the
Vietnam War - links to websites, interviews with those who
fought
Vietnam: Yesterday and
Today This page presents a war chronology, a list of ways Vietnam
differed from other wars, and women's points of view on the conflict in addition
to links to war sites and those relating to Vietnam today.