Video Library Beta

ABC video clips sourced for the Australian curriculum in partnership with Education Services Australia

Collections

History

Contributions of people to Australian society
Contributions of people to Australian society 7

This collection investigates some of the ways in which people from two diverse cultural backgrounds have contributed to Australian society and its changing identity. This collection examines a range of innovative possibilities for harnessing various energy sources, while considering what the future might hold for their development.

  • Strand/s: Historical knowledge and understanding
  • Year/s: 6-10
History of the Environment Movement
History of the Environment Movement 15

This collection covers the emergence of an awareness in Australia, during the 1970s and 1980s, of the importance of the natural environment and the damage done to it without appropriate urban planning and controls.

  • Strand/s: Historical knowledge and understanding
  • Year/s: 10
Post-war Indonesia
Post-war Indonesia 14

Focuses on the history of Indonesia since 1942 to 1998.

  • Strand/s: Modern History
  • Year/s: 11-12
Rights and freedoms
Rights and freedoms 17

This collection covers the increasing tensions between African-American and white communities in America during the civil rights movement in 1960s America.

  • Strand/s: Historical knowledge and understanding
  • Year/s: 6-13

Science

Energy: sources, alternatives and issues
Energy: sources, alternatives and issues 7

This collection examines a range of innovative possibilities for harnessing various energy sources, while considering what the future might hold for their development.

  • Strand/s: Science as a human endeavour
  • Year/s: 6-10
Environmental issues
Environmental issues 14

Programs dealing with topical scientific and technological issues confronting the environment.

  • Strand/s: Science as a human endeavour, Science understanding
  • Year/s: 6-10
Natural and man-made impacts on ecosystems
Natural and man-made impacts on ecosystems 19

This collection explores the causes and consequences of natural and human-produced influences on ecosystems.

  • Strand/s: Working scientifically, Science understanding, Science inquiry skills, Science as a human endeavour, Physics, Natural and processed materials, Life and living, Earth and beyond, Chemistry, Biology
  • Year/s: 6-12