Year 8 Resources

The Australian Curriculum: History includes an overview of the historical period and then elective depth studies that focus on a particular society, event, movement or development.

The list below may provide some useful multimedia resources to support the teaching of the depth studies at Year 8.

The Vikings

The Vikings timeline

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoCVar9bCWg

Medieval Europe

Charlemagne videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJBKGVRdhy8 5

The Dark Ages – Part 8 – The Greatest King (includes beheadings) 10 mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGkUNK8kmDw&feature=related

Renaissance Italy      

Niccolo Machiavelli

Also mentions da Vinci, Galileo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s25kX24j250

Shogunate Japan

Japan's Secret Empire (Part 1 of 5) The Will of the Shogun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKQNJG3s710&feature=related

The end of Shogunate Japan Japan's Secret Empire (Part 5 of 5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJzmpAaLLY&feature=related

The Polynesian expansion across the Pacific

            Attenborough Explains Easter Island  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hO-vCPuuQQ&feature=related

The Mystery Of Easter Island http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DBTtC4J0OY&feature=related