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Teaching and Learning resources for the Australian Curriculum
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Maree Whiteley
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Cartoons are engaging and thought provoking. They are an optimal method for conveying a strong opinion to a wide and diverse audience. In the classroom, they are a great tool for getting students thinking and talking.
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Cartoons provide a cross-curricula, visual tool to promote student engagement and critical thinking...
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The Premier's ANZAC Student Tour competition is open annually to students in Years 8-11. The tour is an opportunity for outstanding young ambassadors to represent Western Australia on a history and commemorative study tour overseas. Further details about the competition process and previous tours can be accessed on this site
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Parer's War can help students understand the seriousness of the war and the nature of the challenges faced by Australian troops. The film is a resource that will be useful for middle and senior sudents in History, English and Media Arts.
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- The poet WH Auden once suggested that, in order to understand your own country, you need to have lived in at least two others. But what about your own time? By the same reckoning, you need to have experienced at least two other centuries. This presents us with some difficulties.
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Hear ye! Hear ye! Essential guide for every Dame and Knight...
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This is amazing...
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March 21, 2014 1:54 AM
On this demo video aren't the 1000 years promised, anyway it's a great story, to see the History moving visualized, even for a small period of time. On the pic above from 1226 there's a relative small Kievan Rus as opposed to a big Poland, Bohemia, Lithuania, Hungary and Holy Roman Empire, two Bulgarias, small Muslim Spain and a disassembled into more realms "Byzantine Empire" that in the time wasn't even called so but Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων (or Imperium Romanum, and first after it's surrender under the Turcs 1453, from about 1550 was so called, to appear in the the History books after the city of Byzantium that is today's Istanbul).
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Discover, explore, and zoom in to maps from all time periods!
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1746 map of London now available as an incredibly detailed Google map The Centre for Metropolitan History and Museum of London Archaeology wanted a map that could help them visualise data from the...
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How cool is this...You can travel through London as it was in 1746, and, as a added bonus, see the differences between then and now by moving the StreetView icon around.
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Download Family Tree Builder - excellent free genealogy software. Downloaded more than 5 million times.
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What's your history and how do you know?
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Federal education minister Christopher Pyne appears to have reignited the History Wars with a call to rewrite the newly-minted national history curriculum to remove alleged left-wing bias. History editor ‒ and history teacher ‒ Dr Glenn Davies says how history is taught in Australian schools should not depend on who is running the country.
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Very interesting article and the associated comments below...
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Check out this amazing list of historians and history teachers to follow....
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What a great idea... History sharing in the 21st Century��
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The modern image of Santa Claus has been refined again and again.
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Merry Christmas Historians...����
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New images in the film archive, unveiled by the British Council (BC) today, reveal what life was like in Britain during 1930s and 40s.
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Not hard to get lost in this film collection...
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This looks like fun...
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Video clip synopsis – A small lifeboat, retrieved from the shores of Gallipoli, is a direct link to the first Anzacs and the day that helped forge Australia’s identity.
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Gallipoli Boat
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The focus of these packages is on teaching historical content through the use of the discipline pedagogy that strengthens student's understanding of society past and present. Enhanced by digital technologies, students are encouraged to become active, inquiring and informed historians, using evidence collected from primary and secondary sources. You will gain an understanding of how to use specific educational technologies in the study of history and how to organise your classroom, as well as learn a range of teaching strategies and classroom management ideas. References to further material for your professional learning are also provided.
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Links to AC History using ICT - 3 levels (Early years, Upper primary/lower Secondary, Year 9/10)
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If you dig deep enough, say scientists, you can find some truth to legends and creation storiesyths have fed the imaginations and souls of humans for thousands of years. The vast majority of these tales are just stories people have handed down through the ages. But a few have roots in real geological events of the past, providing warning of potential dangers and speaking to the awe we hold for the might of the planet Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-ancient-stories-and-geological-events-may-have-inspired-them-180950347/#7X8e0erOu79KEHdK.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitteryths have fed the imaginations and souls of humans for thousands of years. The vast majority of these tales are just stories people have handed down through the ages. But a few have roots in real geological events of the past, providing warning of potential dangers and speaking to the awe we hold for the might of the planet Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-ancient-stories-and-geological-events-may-have-inspired-them-180950347/#7X8e0erOu79KEHdK.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitteryths have fed the imaginations and souls of humans for thousands of years. The vast majority of these tales are just stories people have handed down through the ages. But a few have roots in real geological events of the past, providing warning of potential dangers and speaking to the awe we hold for the might of the planet Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-ancient-stories-and-geological-events-may-have-inspired-them-180950347/#7X8e0erOu79KEHdK.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter
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hs have fed the imaginations and souls of humans for thousands of years
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-ancient-stories-and-geological-events-may-have-inspired-them-180950347/#7X8e0erOu79KEHdK.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitterhs have fed the imaginations and souls of humans for thousands of years Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-ancient-stories-and-geological-events-may-have-inspired-them-180950347/#7X8e0erOu79KEHdK.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitterhs have fed the imaginations and souls of humans for thousands of years Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-ancient-stories-and-geological-events-may-have-inspired-them-180950347/#7X8e0erOu79KEHdK.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter Fascination and curiosity...what's not to love about Myths and Legends #history #science #geography
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A Spectacular Video I made that reflects on the biggest world events, from 1949-1989. From Harry Truman to Rock And Rolla Cola Wars, the world has seen so mu...
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When popular culture meets historical events...this YouTube video has been around for a few years now but still resonates today. A great classroom motivator for History students and teachers
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SOLO Hexagons allow students to identify links between factors very effectively. Students categorise and link factors together for deeper understanding of the relationship between factors.
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Great for assessing historical understanding and a lot of fun for students and teachers...Thanks @BradSnell for sharing!
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Language arts teacher Jessica Keigan describes a project she used to help build her students' critical thinking and communication skills—as well as their stake in their education system.
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History and English curriculum links..."For history class, they continued to read and analyze historical documents as representations of patterns and stages of various revolutions of the 1700s and 1800s. In English, we moved from analysis of informational texts to a study of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. Students applied their analytical skills to deconstruct Dickens' style and purpose. They looked for evidence of his historical perspective and authorial choices and examined how these two elements worked together to create a commentary on revolutionary ideas."
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When I was a student, nothing helped me become more skilled at writing history than learning about journalism -- news reporting, in particular. I don't mean to undervalue my fabulous teachers in high
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Find education news, teaching strategies, lesson plans, activity ideas and more on the WeAreTeachers blog. Featuring posts by guest bloggers and teachers as well as WeAreTeachers editors.
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Many, many useful resources here...
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This sample map across year levels shows explicit reference to Asia content in the Australian Curriculum for History. Students learn about the importance of the traditions, beliefs and celebrations of peoples from the Asia region and through the study of ancient societies, trade, conflicts, progressive movements and migration to Australia by people from Asia. From Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia in the Australian Curriculum: History.
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Great resources here from Foundation level to Year 10 AC History...thanks Asia Education Foundation :-)
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January 20, 2014 10:29 PM
A real value for teachers of a digital national curriculum is the available access to good digital resources.
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Modern Australia has an odd relationship with Federation.
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Federation Day and Australia's Indigenous people...
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January 4, 2014 12:44 AM
Indigenous perspective of Australia's Federation |
How awesome is this...take a virtual trip to the Library of Congress and explore the extensive range of primary sources...