1. Before Watching the BTN Story Predict What You Think It Is Going to Be About

Episode 13 Questions for discussion 23rd May 2017

WannaCry Cyberattack 1. Before watching the BTN story predict what you think it is going to be about. 2. How many countries were affected by the cyberattack? 3. What was the cyberattack called? a. WannaCry b. WannaLeak c. WannaScream 4. Explain what a hacker is in the context of this story. 5. What happened when people clicked on the emails or links sent by the hackers? 6. Who did the cyberattack affect? 7. Explain how the cyberattack affected hospitals. 8. Discuss the issues raised in the story with another student. 9. What do you understand more clearly since watching the BTN story? 10. How are you cyber safe? Discuss as a class.

Write a message about the story and post it in the comments section on the story page.

1967 Referendum 1. How long ago did Australians vote to change our country’s laws to recognise Indigenous Australians as citizens? 2. Describe what it was like in Australia in the 1960s. 3. Did Aboriginal people have equal rights to other Australians in the 1960s? Explain. 4. In what year were Indigenous Australians given the right to vote in Federal Elections? 5. To change the constitution there has to be a referendum. True or false? 6. What is a referendum? 7. In 1967 what percent of Australians voted ‘yes’ to change the constitution? 8. Discuss why it is important to remember Australia’s 1967 referendum. 9. What does it mean to have equal rights? Explain your answer. 10. Name three things you learnt watching the BTN story.

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Kids TV Quotas 1. Briefly summarise the BTN Kids TV Quotas story. 2. Who controls what can be shown on free to air TV? a. ACMA b. ACME

©ABC 2017 c. ACNE 3. At the moment, commercial networks have to broadcast at least 260 hours of children’s TV each year and 25 hours of that has to have been made in Australia. Why do we have this law? 4. Why are some people worried about this law changing? 5. What do some of the celebrities in the campaign say about the issue? 6. What is the aim of the #savekidstv campaign? 7. What are your favourite Australian children’s TV shows? 8. Is this issue important to you? Why or why not? 9. Hold a class debate. Develop arguments for and against the issue. 10. What was surprising about this story?

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Space Messages 1. What does the BTN story explain? 2. Why are the students in the BTN story sending messages into space? 3. When was the first interstellar message sent? 4. What did a group of scientists do in 1974? 5. Finish the following sentence: The golden record that was sent in to space contained… 6. What skills are the students in Western Australia using to send encrypted messages? 7. The messages will be sent _____ light years away. 8. What did the students want aliens to know? 9. If you were to send a message into space, what would it be? 10. What did you like about the BTN story?

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Weedy Seadragon 1. Explain the BTN Weedy Seadragon story to another student. 2. Think of three adjectives to describe the weedy seadragon. 3. Weedy seadragons are an introduced species. True or false? 4. Where in Australia are they found? 5. Why are scientists concerned about the seadragons? 6. How are scientists identifying them? 7. What do the scientists do when they identify a new weedy seadragon? 8. Scientists think the species will be re-classified as ______. 9. What are the threats to the weedy seadragon? 10. What did you learn about the BTN story?

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