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Nicholas' tummy is grumbling. Join him on his search for a crunchy snack singing I'm So Hungry.

The Youngein children studied, worked, and played very differently to children today. How was school and after-school different for children back then?

What was it like getting up and getting ready when there was no bathroom in your house? And what did children eat for breakfast when there were no refrigerators or supermarket foods like cereal?

As a convict kid, once you served your usual sentence of seven or 14 years, you would still have had the majority of your life ahead of you to make a fresh start.

Convict kids in Australia suffered a variety of punishments for even the most minor offences. These punishments ranged from flogging to solitary confinement or work gangs.

Convicts sent out to the penal colonies in Australia were expected to work as a part of their punishment, and convict kids were no exceptions. They also lived under the same harsh conditions as the adults.

In 18th and early 19th-century Britain, transportation as a form of punishment was used to combat the overcrowded prisons. Children as young as seven could be tried as adults and sent to Australia as convicts. Alternative title: History Shorts: Convict Kids: Transportation and the First Fleet.

The gold rush began just over 60 years after Europeans arrived to Australia, but how did this decade transform the cultural, political, environmental, and economic threads of the nation?

The democracy all Australians enjoy began at the goldfields, but how? Ronan guides students through the events that led up to the Eureka Stockade at Bakery Hill in Ballarat.

Life on the goldfields wasn't as easy as some thought when they arrived off the boats to begin their luck at gold mining!

How did the Australian gold rush begin in 1851? Who kicked it off? Where did it occur, and why is gold so valuable?