History is one of four disciplines within the Australian Curriculum Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) Learning Area - Who we are, who came before us, and traditions and values that have shaped societies Students explore their own identity, Australia’s heritage and cultural diversity, and Australia’s identity as a nation in the world. They examine the significance of traditions and shared values within society.
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Primary History for Australian Classrooms
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Complete units of work, resources and lesson ideas for P-6 AC History
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Maree Whiteley
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Amazing new resource by our National Museum of Australia- congratulations to the Museum Educators who contributed their expertise and love of history to this. Especially suited to the Year 4-6 History Curriculum but can be used in so many ways with all year levels...enjoy!!
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A workshop was held at the University of Sydney documenting the use of process drama to teach war and commemoration in a contemporary classroom. Student
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Thinking historically goes well beyond memorising dates, facts and data. This amazing video documents how 'process drama' can be used to develop authentic historical consciousness in our students. Congratulations and thank you Kate Smyth, Alison O'Grady and Julia Horne at the University of Sydney, for documenting this workshop with so many powerful messages for all teachers.
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A timeline of all Jackie Frenches historical fiction and non-fiction,
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What an amazing resource for teachers searching for historical fiction and non-fiction resources for their HASS/History classroom - Thank you Jackie French
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A Bendigo woman hopes her research can help tell the city's gold rush history through the eyes of a child.
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Letters of GOLD...This is an amazing find for great historical inquiry - a rare glimpse at the Victorian Gold Rush era through the eyes of a 12 year old child. An incredible classroom resource exploring child voice (perspective), significance and primary source analysis.
Mary Van Goor's curator insight,
May 25, 2021 3:28 PM
It is important to remember that children experience historical events as well as adults, and their perspective can sometimes shed light on aspects adult perspectives overlook. These letters proved to be a good insight into the life and beliefs of a British Quaker family making their way to the Victorian Goldfields in the 1800's.
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A useful guide for every primary teacher with practical links to AC History and AC English. The General Capabilities Literacy and Critical/Creative Thinking are also explored and numerous resources and lesson ideas are embedded throughout this article.
Von Sawers's curator insight,
January 22, 2016 8:16 PM
Australian History Curriculum friendly with a good dose of English
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Tales of Times Past Senior Storytellers are a network of local community branches comprised of voluntary senior Heritage Storytellers. We endeavour to preserve and share with all generations, the richly diverse cultural oral histories, that represent our wider Australian story. These personal stories act as a bridge to reach across the years and offer a lively insight into life, as it was in times past.
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Senior storytellers that come to your classroom...to preserve and share with all generations, the richly diverse cultural oral histories, that represent our wider Australian story. What's not to love about that?
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This story directly links to many areas of the HASS Curriculum, but most specifically to the Year 4 History content of 'First Contacts'.
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Create your own historical inquiry in your own location...this is how one primary school in Western Australia has used a range of apps to create their own Heritage Trail.
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Very clever use of technology here by students at a Perth school to take you on an interactive journey of discovery through their local area. Well done @RobinMckean for creating a meaningful and enaging activity to combine AC History, Geography and Technology
Maree Whiteley's curator insight,
August 25, 2014 12:41 AM
Very clever use of technology here by students at a Perth school to take you on an interactive journey of discovery through their local area. Well done @RobinMckean for creating a meaningful and enaging activity to combine AC History, Geography and Technology 
Via Saturn's curator insight,
May 13, 2017 8:48 PM
The idea of cross curricular integration of content and skills is excellent. It would however take significant organisation and collaboration of educators to make learning flow smoothly.
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Play the online interactive game based on real convict voyages. Players must make decisions, solve problems and deal with conflicts on a perilous journey across the globe.
Maree Whiteley's insight:
Amazing treasure trove of activities and source materials to help you to further explore the world of 18th and 19th century convict transportation from Britain to Australia. A variety of teaching and learning strategies should be used to assist students to reflect on their own learning. Although these resources focus primarily on history, the Voyage Game has many curriculum connections in subject areas such as English, Mathematics, Science, Visual Arts, Computer Science and Technology as well as the cross-curriculum priorities.
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A fabulous collection of historical stories and illustrations here. We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children’s literature. And the very fact that children’s books were hardly published at all before the early 18th century tells us a lot about when and how modern ideas of childhood as a separate category of existence began.
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This will give you an idea of how different the same activity can look when child initiated. Shared Reading, Malleable Table, Small World, Science Table (Exploring Rosemary) and so much more...
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ANZAC day for early learners...so many creative ideas here for pre-school children to explore stories and symbols connected to ANZAC commemorations, without going into the details of wartime.
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Teachers as Learners - a day of Historical Inquiry using HASS skills and iSTEM capabilities, exploring the City of Perth.
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Interdisciplinary forces at play here - flashback to an amazing #AISWApl that has grown to become a way of teaching and learning for students and their teachers - thanks @rmckean for coming along for the ride...and still going!
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First Australians were making huge overseas voyages to trade in a vast international network at least 300 years earlier than previously thought.
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Year 4 Australian Curriculum - What was life like for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples before the arrival of the Europeans?
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A collection of Teaching and Learning Programs based on the Australian Curriculum for primary students to wonder about the past by actively engaging in the historical inquiry process.
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A brilliant new resource written by primary teachers in a collaborative PL project by AISWA and HTAV. The inquiry-based pedagogy in these programs are carefully sequenced to promote high-order thinking skills and historical understanding.
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FACTORY floor slave labour at age eight, routine starvation, and a bruising education on the filthy streets of Sydney; working class kids in colonial times knew the meaning of tough.
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What is Historical Literacy and why teach it? While most kids today are fretting about the latest iPad or sneakers, children in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century routinely shouldered much of the responsibility of family life — particularly if the working male in the family fell ill or died. Author Edwin Barnard has written a book looking at the lives of the largely forgotten element of the colonial period; working class children.
Mary Van Goor's curator insight,
May 25, 2021 3:29 PM
Being a child is not always an easy thing, and historical times have not always been kind to children.
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Resources for Australian History teachers and students developed by HTAWA (History Teachers' Association of Western Australia)
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Latest edition to this suite of quality resources...This resource has been developed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of WWI and aims to support teachers in integrating 100 years of West Australian history into the HASS curriculum.
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Lynn Cowell's Year 2 class were doing a project on old and new telephones, with the primary aim of developing the children's skills in investigating objects. During the project, I visited the class once a week.
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Fits well with Year 2 History/HASS inquiry - Changing Technology over time - via Historical Association UK
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History teacher Jody Passanisi reports once again on her flipped teaching experiment again and finds herself "a little less starry-eyed" and more strategic.
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Inquiry learning in action...
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This article highlights the importance of conversations between teachers and students in constructing joint texts.
Catherine Smyth's curator insight,
February 8, 2015 8:14 PM
Critical conversations help students move from spoken-like to more written-like texts. This article highlights the importance of conversations between teachers and students in constructing joint texts. Scroll down to see the implications of the critical conversations approach for helping students construct historical narratives. 
Ness Crouch's curator insight,
August 3, 2015 8:42 PM
Critical conversations help students move from spoken-like to more written-like texts. This article highlights the importance of conversations between teachers and students in constructing joint texts. Scroll down to see the implications of the critical conversations approach for helping students construct historical narratives.
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The official website of Australian author and historian Nadia Wheatley,
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Australians All -Thx @brightsparkler SashaJessop & KayCarroll for reminding us of this wonderful resource #HTAA16
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The activities require students to look at how their school has changed over time. Students will also be able to develop their observation and deductive thinking skills by exploring their immediate environment. While the examples used focus on a particular school, the overall approach and most of the activities are readily adaptable for other schools or local sites.
Maree Whiteley's insight:
A fantastic learning sequence using 'Visible Thinking' pedagogy requiring students to Think Puzzle Explore to investigate their local heritage. Also suitable for Foundation to Year 3 students to start the inquiry process and pose questions.
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Dirk Hartog 1616 - 2016, a teaching resource for Australian Year 4 History teachers and students.
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New resources from HTAWA and WA Museum commemorating the 400th anniversary of Hartog's exploration of the WA coastline. Complete learning sequences for Year 4 and Year 3.
Kelly Sharwood's curator insight,
March 6, 2016 2:55 AM
New resources from HTAWA and WA Museum commemorating the 400th anniversary of Hartog's exploration of the WA coastline. Complete learning sequences for Year 4 and Year 3.
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Maree Whiteley's insight:
Great resources and discussion here that address the challenges of planning rigorous and challenging primary history, with a range of ideas for inspiring teaching and learning in Primary History.
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Love this approach to questioning...great seven questions for an historical inquiry.
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Inquiry skills combined with knowledge (content) and understanding (key concepts) are at the core of historical understandings and 'thinking like an Historian'.
Who we are, who came before us, and traditions and values that have shaped societies Students explore their own identity, Australia’s heritage and cultural diversity, and Australia’s identity as a nation in the world. They examine the significance of traditions and shared values within society.