BCSI-History

Resources, lessons and units of work regarding several key learning areas.

Whenever you frame a question with reference to how things have changed over time, you commit yourself to doing historical research. All of us do this all the time, but not everyone thinks very carefully about the best ways of finding information about the past and how it relates to the present.

Comprehensive revision resources for Weimar and Nazi Germany topics.

Huge list of WWI related links - Australia focus.

Ancient History

Useful for History Extension!

The purpose of Historvius is to help people locate historically important sites associated with people and events from 4000BCE through today. Visitors to Historvius can search for places by selecting range of dates, choosing a historic period, selecting a person, or by entering a combination of search terms. Search results are displayed on a Google Map. You can then click on a placemark on the map to find more information about that historic site.

Imagine marching into combat as a Roman centurion, or fighting as a Muslim warrior to gain control of Jerusalem, or creating an new nation as an African, or sailing into combat as a Japanese sailor leading the attack on Pearl Harbor. These Western/World Civilization simulations will help you to better understand the difficulties and decisions that people around the world have made throughout history.

The below collection focuses on The Pacific War, a term referring to parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, the islands of the Pacific and the Far East.

A lesson that introduces a framework for understanding and interpreting political cartoons that can be used throughout your entire history course.

This section contains a selection of worksheets that you can use with students to help them critically evaluate documents and images.

This page of the Primary Documents section of the website collects together archive source documents originating in 1914, the year the First World War began.

"Teaching with Documents" is designed to help teachers and students make sense of the vast amount of source material available over the Internet, and effectively bring these resources to their work as historians. It provides easy access to analytic tools, instructional strategies, and links to source material and sample assessments.

WW2 Witness is a 12 part documentary series based on interviews with Europeans who have unique and compelling stories about their lives as civilians during the war. Please see the website for video clips and more info

Multipart documentary series about the indigenous people of Australia is a history of Australia after the European colonizers, told from the perspective of First Australians with first-person accounts, archival photographs and footage, interviews with historians and similar sources. The documentary begins with an explanation of the mythological/spiritual belief of indigenous Australians known as the Dreaming.

The Digitised Manuscripts web pages give access to fully digitised manuscripts held at the British Library, with their descriptions

History through the eyes of those who lived it

Primary documentation gives you exact information from the people or groups involved, even though some of this may still be interpreted by others. With an inclination to the writing process for recording information and the relative youth of the country since European settlement, we often have access to a surprising range and depth of primary documentation. Regrettably, because of their oral tradition, much of the Indigenous history before European arrival has been lost.

The BBC's Witness podcast series offers short, under 10 minutes, audio recordings of newscasts and interviews with people who experienced historical events first-hand. There are currently 168 episodes in the series and more are to be added every day.

Find resources for history and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about Web technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, social networks, Google Docs, ebooks, online maps, virtual, screencasts, online posters, and more and explore innnovative ways of integrating them into the curriculum. Watch instructional video tutorials and learn out how others are using technology in the classroom!