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This week, we reflected on what Australia Day means to us. We started by watching a series of video clips about what others thought about the meaning of Australia Day. You can watch them here. We thought about these clips in two different ways: What is familiar to me and what feelings or experiences expressed might I share? and
What challenged my thinking?After we talked about this, we each created our own reflections about Australia Day. Here are some of our ideas …
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The Australian Curriculum
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The 7–10 curriculum generally takes a world history approach within which the history of Australia is taught. It does this to equip students for the world (local, regional and global) in which they live. An understanding of world history enhances students’ appreciation of Australian history. It enables them to develop an understanding of the past and present experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, their identities and the continuing value of their cultures. It also helps students to appreciate Australia’s distinctive path of social, economic and political development, its position in the Asia and Pacific regions, and its global interrelationships. This knowledge and understanding is essential for informed and active participation in Australia’s diverse society and in creating rewarding personal and collective futures.
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Learning Sequences for teachers and students of Australian School History developed by HTAA (The History Teachers' Association of Australia)
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The three units of work included in this resource were designed to support teachers and students working with the Australian Curriculum: History. While the primary aim has been to complement topics studied at the Year 9 level and target relevant achievement standards, it is also hoped that the units may have a wider application in modelling a number of things: The importance of embedding any historical inquiry in a learning sequence that supports students in developing the knowledge, understanding and skills to build towards meeting the challenges of a meaningful final assessment task. The need to carefully select source material and scaffold activities if students are to have a productive experience with sources. The importance of directing students towards accessible sources that will engage and reward historical inquiry.
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Succeed as a History student at high school or college. Source analysis and evaluation skills explanations, example answers and a step-by-step research essay guide.
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Can't wait to fully explore this amazing @HistorySkills resource collection by Australian History teacher Michael James...
Coconut Curator's curator insight,
May 7, 2017 1:38 AM
Fanstastic resource! Historical skills, use of sources, research tools, referencing advice - all related to Australian history curriculum. For both students and teachers - presented by an Australian secondary school history teacher.
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So many great ideas here to promote Historical Thinking and reasoning to enable your students to 'think and read like a Historian', also assessment tasks and lesson plans for document studies.
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A response to stimulus exam provides you with a range of source material, both primary and secondary, and asks you to answers a series of questions.
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A complete History teacher's toolkit! A brilliant resource for source analysis, critical thinking, comprehension and so much more....
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Catherine Smyth's curator insight,
February 28, 2016 5:29 PM
Link place and time with History in Motion. I like how this technology helps connect past events to places. 
Paul B.'s curator insight,
May 7, 2017 9:47 PM
"create share explore" "learn best by doing" I think this takes ICT in history from the SA, to the MR. (world-wide) REsearching, networking, visualising, creating. This sort of resource makes history modern (!?)
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It’s an open secret in the education community. As we go about integrating technology into our schools, we are increasing the risk and potential for plagiarism
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An Interesting Dilemma...We want students to do “group work,” to collaborate, and to discuss. However, we have very specific realms in which we want this to happen: the group assignment, the in-class discussion, studying for exams, etc. At the same time, many of us want to put up barriers and halt any collaboration at other times (during assessments, for example). What strategies/research skills are you teaching to avoid collaboration/sharing ideas becoming plagiarism?
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History just keeps happening – there's nothing you can do about that. But learning as much as possible is deeply rewarding, and helps you better understand the world. This week Cool Websites and Apps digs into five sites that give you a better idea of history. Explore maps from other ages, see where people are…
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Via @SmythCatheine...A facinating collection of History resources here, What History Resources Do You Love?
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Teaching History with 100 objects: http://www.teachinghistory100.org/. The British Museum has partnered up with other UK museums, supported by the Department for Education, to provide online histories of 100 key objects in British collections that connect with all areas of the new history curriculum and with hundreds of linked objects that explore world history from 500,000 years ago to the present day.
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Great resource primary and secondary classrooms for teaching historical thinking, through analysing sources. Travel to the British Museum for an amazing virtual tour to 'experience' this wonderful collection of objects.
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Hollywood has pushed out some impressive historical dramas. Here are some great quality historical movies for junior high and high school, under R.
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What a great collection...'From Schindler’s List to Free State of Jones, Hollywood has pushed out some impressive historical dramas over the years. However, being brutally accurate, these films are not appropriate for kids. A follow up to Historical Movies for Kids, here are some great historical movies for junior high and high school. Most are under the R rating (there’s a few exceptions, that are always noted as R), and none have graphic sexual content or an obsessive amount of profanity. Additionally, all are engaging and handle violence realistically without being gory. To further establish fact from fiction, check out History vs. Hollywood and Teach With Movies. (Read why I believe a fictional movie or “based on a true story” movie can be beneficial for learning history.)'
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Twitter, TeachMeet and Tariq Ali Teaching History in the Digital Age Matt Esterman @mesterman Get this presentation now http://bit.ly/HTAA16EST
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A hands-on session about Teaching History in the Digital Age with Matt Esterman @mesterman
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The Australian Curriculum: History allows students around the country to learn about the impact of war on Australia. Let us know what you think of this video...
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Worth a look. This short YouTube produced by ACARA is a synopsis of where and why the study of ANZAC appears in AC History across the year levels. The emphasis is on Historical Thinking based on evidence, source analysis and interpretation.
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YOU can almost reach out and touch the past.
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Incredible images would make a fabulous Past/Present activity for students. Cheryl Ward and Bernard de Broglio made this haunting collection of pictures by seamlessly combining contemporary images with eyewitness photographs taken on Lemnos in 1915.
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Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Quinton is a good questioner. On one level he is able to present the pupils with a task and draw out the salient historical facts through his questioning feedback, ensuring the pupils ‘get it’. He feels confident in his ability to do this, and yet his mentor and university tutor…
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The purpose is everything...'Crafting the questioning ultimately doesn’t mean planning out every single question, rather it means being clear about the purpose of the lesson and how the questioning will move the pupils in the direction of that purpose. The clarity of the enquiry question and historical rationale for the lesson is critical in achieving this and elevating questions beyond recall of facts.'
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Amazing new resource released this week by our National Museum of Australia- congratulations to the Museum Educators who contributed their expertise and love of history to this. So many Curriculum links as you explore these wonderful sources of information, stories and curiosities for all year levels...enjoy!
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“There are so many informative and fascinating videos on YouTube, generously provided for free by caring subscribers wanting to share their knowledge and expertise. Find out from Katie Lepi how to make the most of this great classroom resource for history in the following Edudemic article.” Can you imagine the level of first-hand knowledge today’s …
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Great use of YouTube for your History class...relive moments from the past. What was life really like?
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Overview Note: I have created an online hexagons generator at ClassTools.net. The ability to select, prioritise, categorise and link evidence is a valuable skill that students learn in History. It …
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Updated version of this incredibly useful activity from classtools.org and @activehistory Thanks @russeltarr
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Andrea Patrick's curator insight,
April 24, 2018 5:19 AM
Good visual to use as a teaching aid for teaching/learning the meta-concept of historical significance.
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Overview Giving students an essay to write as the main outcome of a unit of study can be repetitive and therefore disengaging. In order to give students a fresh enthusiasm for the art of essay writ…
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Another brilliant, practical idea to inspire your students and spark their critical aand creative thinking
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Quick and easy ideas to spice up your lessons, brought to you by @russeltarr. I teach History but many of these ideas are transferable to other subjects too!
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How amazing is this toolkit? So many creative ways to engage your students in their learning...thanks @russeltarr
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AC History Units presents 8 units developed by the History Teachers' Association of Australia to support teachers in the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: History ...A major goal has been to provide the conceptual background (in Unit 1) and concrete examples (in Units 2-8) to assist teachers in designing their own programs and learning sequences for other topics and year levels.
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Primary and secondary AC History units...a fantastic resource site! Well done HTAA!
Robert Kidd's curator insight,
January 3, 2014 2:01 AM
Major Thomas Anderson Kidd served with the 10th Light Horse in Gallipoli and Egypt, was wounded and became seriously ill with Cholera.
He wrote diaries which he embellished with maps and diagrams. He was Mentioned in Despatches for gallantry in May & August 1915 and he suggested Hugo Throssell get the Victoria Cross at Hill 60.
I edited a transcript of Tom’s re-written diary and began to understand his frustration with the foolishness of some orders and the impossibility of many aspects of the campaigns that he was involved in.
In my extensive reading I have found these words have been used to describe him; cool, calm, fair, caring, splendid, brave, fearless, reckless, bullet proof & the men even considered him bomb proof!
These men and their families obviously had a life both before & after their war service and I am interested in all facets; particularly the affect war had on them.
My book "Uncle Tom's Diary" is a young adult novella about the discovery of one of his diaries ... and secrets!
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Three days of quality Professional Learning for History Educators - insights, resources and networking - Canberra 2-4 October 2018
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Here's a great list of very resourceful #historyteacher websites and blogs to add to my growing #global collection.. Thanks @rogershistory
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April 24, 2018 5:21 AM
Webs and blogs that may be useful in future (or now)....
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Still to come...The achievement standards for Humanities and Social Sciences, Health and Physical Education will be published in the Western Australian Curriculum and Assessment Outline before the commencement of the 2016 school year with Technologies, The Arts and Languages progressively published during 2016. The annotated work samples for Humanities and Social Sciences (Society and Environment), the Arts, Languages, Health and Physical Education and Technologies will be published in the Western Australian Curriculum and Assessment Outline during 2016.
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The Significance of the ANZAC tradition for all Australians...
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Sourced from @SmythCatherine 's insight but such relevant comments about WHY? we commemorate ANZAC... Why is ANZAC DAY a significant event in Australia? How do we assign significance to an event or a person? Geoffery Partington suggests the following criteria can be used to determine significance: 1. Importance – to people living at the time 2. Profundity – how deeply people’s lives were affected by it 3. Quantity – how many lives were affected 4. Durability – for how long people’s lives were affected 5. Relevance – the extent to which the event has contributed to an increased understanding of present life Another way to think about the significance of something is to use Christine Counsell's model and ask whether the event or person was: 1. Remarkable (event/circumstance/person was remarked upon at the time or after) 2. Remembered (event/circumstance/person was important at some stage in history within collective memory) 3. Resonant (people like to identify with it, reveal something about individuals or society) 4. Resulting in change (consequences for the future -turning point) 5. Revealing- (about some other aspect of the past) The Australian War Memorial website provides background information about this significant event.
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Great stuff, very powerful student reflections. A wonderful lesson here using 'Together for Humanity' video clips.