A free newsletter with a focus on world and ancient history, which includes fantastic lesson plans. She will also do a search on a topic of your choice. It need not be large or too ambitious. Once started a site like this can be added to over the years by different groups of students. If you live in W.A., you can make a headstart here.
Family history is often the building block to understanding local history.
If you have a go at writing up your own school's history, it can also be linked to this developing site. Handy Hint - when you only have a limited amount of time, stick to your research plan. Resist the temptation to surf along on some other fascinating sites. Instead bookmark a likely site and come back and explore it later as a reward when you have finished your research assignment. However , even I couldn't resist a sidetrack to the next site when it came up in a keyword search on history.