This resource examines Afonso de Albuquerque’s life and the significance of his achievements in the history of South-East Asia. It aligns with Year 6 Australian Curriculum History, Geography and HASS.
This resource acknowledges the contribution of a 10th century Arab traveller, Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who travelled as an emissary of the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad to the ruler of the Bulgars, Almiș, in the Steppe region of modern Russia.
Alexander the Great is a well-recognised historical figure, who is known for many achievements. In this resource a brief overview of his life introduces the idea that he is the first recorded European to explore Asia, and thus can be regarded as an explorer as well as a general.
Pseudocode and Flowcharts are ways of showing algorithms or processes. Both pseudocode and flowcharts are in used in many places, so it’s important to know how to read and understand them, but also to also how to create them!
This explorer resource examines the life and experiences of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca in North America. It aligns with Year 5 Australian Curriculum History, Geography and HASS.
Amerigo Vespucci is best known to us as the inspiration of the name for the continents of “America”.
He is less known as an explorer of South America in the early 16th century and as the first European to conclude that the ‘new lands’ of the Americas were a separate continent to Asia.
Andrew Irvine accompanied George Mallory in their unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1924. This resource examines Irvine’s short life, and death on the mountain, as an example of people struggling to conquer harsh climates.
This resource aligns with Year 3 and 6 Australian Curriculum History, Geography and HASS.
Designed to complement our other resources on climates (Climate Zones of Australia and Climate Zones of the World), this resource examines how different animals around the world are adapted for their particular climate.
Since inside a computer everything is stored as a number, people needed to decide on how to store the alphabet, numbers and other characters (like an exclamation mark or a comma). Every character needs to its own unique number. We call this encoding.
We purchased the soldering kit after our son did the Mirobot workshops at school. He loved the idea of soldering…
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