Civics and citizenship

5-6

Classification: Parental Guidance

Historian Hamish MaxwellStewart gives Neil Oliver a tour of the Port Arthur convict settlement, revealing the detailed records of prisoners, and visiting the panopticon prison and solitary confinement cells.

Indigenous Australians

7-8

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

In 1824 Windradyne leads Wiradjuri in resistance against British settlers colonising their traditional lands and Governor Thomas Brisbane declares martial law.

Indigenous Australians

7-8

9-10

Classification: General

This video has closed captioning

In 1886 the Aboriginal Protection Board helps draft HalfCaste Act in Victoria, forcing Indigenous people off reserves and to assimilate with Europeans. As reserves close, Indigenous people are forcibly moved to Lake Tyres Mission.

History

5-6

Classification: Not Classified

A brief animated history of the Incas, where they lived and the civilisations that went before them including the Nazcas.

History

5-6

Classification: Not Classified

The origins, mythologies and beliefs of the Incas

Health and PE

7-8

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

Michael Mosley gets an MRI scan to see how much internal fat he has. It's not good news.

Modern history

9-10

11-12

Classification: Mature

The events leading up to the French Revolution, the execution of Louis XVI and the beginning of The Terror.

Science

5-6

Classification: General

This video has closed captioning

A great way to show how propulsion works, using safe materials like cardboard and plastic bottles.

History

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

This video has closed captioning

New evidence suggests that Stonehenge was actually a burial ground for the elite of ancient Britain.

History

7-8

9-10

Classification: Mature

This video has closed captioning

A recreation of the housing for three types of poor families in Victorian London - an unskilled family, skilled family and a rent collector.

Media arts

11-12

Classification: Mature

Michael Moore meets National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston to discuss America's gun culture and the shooting death of a sixyearold girl by one of her classmates.

Geography

9-10

11-12

Classification: General

This video has closed captioning

Shaun Micallef treks high into the Himalayas to the source of the river Ganges, the source of life in India.

Physics

7-8

9-10

Classification: Mature

Physicist Max Tegmark uses a waterfall analogy to explain how black holes work, how the event horizon is the point of no return, and what it would be like to go through one.

Science

7-8

Classification: General

An introduction to the major mass extinctions in Earth's history - and the evidence found in rock layers that the dinosaurs died out suddenly.

Design and technologies

7-8

9-10

Classification: Mature

This video has closed captioning

In the 1870s, poor families had to cope with increased competition from manufacturers overseas. They had to learn to make clothes in bulk.

Earth and environment

7-8

9-10

Classification: General

This video has closed captioning

Mars has an extremely low atmospheric pressure leading to dust storms that cover the entire planet for months - and 'dust devils' that are a kilometre high.

Earth and environment

7-8

9-10

Classification: General

This video has closed captioning

Explains the impact of extreme atmospheric pressure on temperature and how greenhouse gasses have created hellish conditions on Venus.

Numeracy

9-10

11-12

Classification: General

This video has closed captioning

Could the patterns found in Reimann Graphs be the answer to everything? Alan Davies gets a layman's view.