Teacher Resources

Are You Tougher than Your Ancestors? explores familiar historic periods and events through the eyes of children who lived through them. Each episode reveals an incredible true story of a resilient and courageous child from the past, and challenges modern-day children to emulate their experiences. Through these participants’ firsthand experiences, students see what their lives would have been...

The My Place for Teachers website (www.myplace.edu.au) provides rich educational material to support primary and lower-secondary teachers using the My Place TV series in the classroom. Since 1988, thousands of Australian teachers have used the My Place book to support the teaching of Australian History and English. The My Place for Teachers website features teaching materials from both series...

MY:24 offers a series of unique windows into contemporary Australian life from the perspective of young people. The MY:24 Study Guide – Humanities, provides practitioners with discussion tools and activities to link these stories with themes identified in Years 5-9 of the Australian Curriculum: Humanities, with a particular focus on Civics and Citizenship. The MY:24 stories chosen for...

Ready For This cast members Madeleine Madden (Zoe) and Aaron McGrath (Levi), along with Head Scriptwriter Liz Doran, provide a behind the scenes insight into the award-winning TV series, acting and the script-writing process.

Ready for This is an aspirational teen drama series that highlights the challenges and adventures of six elite teens brought together in pursuit of their dreams.This study guide has been written to support the learning and teaching in a number of areas, including Health and Physical Education (Years 7-10), English (Year 10) and Media (Year 10). Civics and Citizenship is relevant...

Touch the Sun, the winner of an international Emmy Award, is a series of six telemovies of 95 minutes each. The telemovies feature mystery, comedy, pathos and fantasy; and encourage young viewers to explore issues such as growing up, being different, resolving conflict and fears, seeking identity and working out values. The Touch The Sun Education Resources provide seven learning activities...

The 20 compiled teaching activities are based each telemovie in the Winners & More Winners collection. These activities explore film language and issues to do with peer pressure, family ties, friendship, conflict, values, individuality and independence.