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onto History + Creativity Teacher Professional Learning March 12, 2019 1:44 AM
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The sensory exploration graphic organizer is a great way to introduce students, especially younger ones, to primary source analysis. It also helps with vocabulary development. Encourage students to write to fill in each column for each sense. After, you may have students create a poem of their choice using the words they brainstormed; they may choose …
Catherine Smyth's curator insight,
November 3, 2014 5:32 PM
This downloadable graphic organiser uses sensory exploration as a way for children to make sense of primary sources. 
Education Creations's curator insight,
November 28, 2014 2:42 AM
A useful tool to use when exploring primary sources with younger students. |
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The syllabus and support materials for the History K–10 Syllabus.
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Connecting with the past. Research-based, practical ideas for teaching and learning history in the primary classroom. This topic is strongly aligned to the Australian Curriculum: history.
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Catherine Smyth's curator insight,
April 23, 2013 3:04 AM
Contrary to the opinion of a few out of touch politicians and the odd public commentator who hasn't set foot in a school this century, ANZAC DAY is solemnly commemorated in Australian schools.
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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Hear the poignant personal stories behind battlefield grave markers in Egypt, France and Gallipoli, as well as the stories behind workplace honour rolls, one of the most common, but often hidden, forms of war memorial in Australia.
Catherine Smyth's curator insight,
May 21, 2018 10:53 PM
In the Stage 2 topic, 'Community and Remembrance' students identify commemorations of significance in Australia and the world. This site has a range of photographs of War memorials and honour rolls. Teaching ideas:
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