Australian History Curriculum P-6

History Resources for P-6.

Available at the CES Resource Centre

The Civics and Citizenship Education Historical Calendar celebrates significant days in Australia's history. By providing online links to further information and teaching and learning activities, it helps teachers to make investigations of these significant days an engaging and meaningful educational experience for students. Selecting 'Current event' in the calendar will take you to events on or near the current date or the calendar may be browsed by month.

Resources provided for the following topics: Getting Involved: Volunteers at our school Rules for Games, School and in the Community Online Interactives Community Club (Scholastic Books, USA) Freedom to Choose (Parliamentary Education Office, Parliament of Australia

List of resources with Online Interactives.

Students will analyse the biographies of three young Australians who have enacted and realised their values. They will then identify an issue that is important to them and consider current and future actions as a mechanism for enacting and realising their own values. This series of lessons concludes with students writing and annotating their autobiography, highlighting the values that are either explicit or implied in their work.

Blog maintained by History teachers - discusses the importance of good questions that encourage kids to think historically

"Whether you have one or two snapshots from a family album or a library of archived images, together we can build a history of the world."

"Continental Drift Theory Archaeological Finds in East Africa, 1960-1993 Early Human Migration to 10,000 Years Ago Distribution of Hunter-Gatherers, 15,000 B.C.-A.D. 2000 Mesopotamia, 2400 B.C."

"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  "

This video introduces P-10 History Australian Curriculum and resources. It outlines the nature and scope of the learning area and the resources developed by the QSA.

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'The Night We Made the Flag, A Eureka Story', is a picture book that imagines what might have happened on the night the Eureka flag was sewn by women on the Ballarat goldfields

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Education Kit: The State Library of New South Wales and the Centre for Learning Innovation have collaborated to develop interactive learning activities for primary and secondary school students.