Overview
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Year Levels F–6
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Curriculum ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
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Subject Humanities
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Resource Formats Print
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Learning Focus History
What it is
From the award-winning Discovering series, Discovering History provides you with clear methodology, pedagogy, and professional development to inspire creative and engaging History lessons. Included resources streamline lesson planning and ongoing teaching of the Australian Curriculum: History and consist of:
- teacher resource books for Lower, Middle, and Upper Primary
- suggested learning sequences
- blackline masters and support materials
- hands-on activities and answers
- student topic books and topic picture cards.
What it includes
Find out how Discovering History makes a difference.
Components
Teacher resource books
The Discovering History teacher resource combines series components and assists with the implementation, lesson planning and ongoing teaching of Australian Curriculum: History. It includes:
- pedagogy for teaching History
- methodology for teaching historical investigation
- ideas for combining History and Literacy
- links to the Australian Curriculum.
Components
Student topic books
Develop curiosity and make exciting topics accessible to learners with a range of non-fiction and fiction books.
- Get maximum student engagement with beautifully developed and illustrative Student Topic Books both fiction and non-fiction.
- Non-fiction Topic Books include engaging historical photographs that give opportunities for classroom discussion.
- Provide concept development through levelled student resources, linked to the Teachers Resource Books.
Components
Topic picture cards
Use fun visual materials to encourage classroom discussion with the picture cards included with each Teacher Resource Book. Also available in digital format for projection in the classroom and interactive whiteboards, they’re available as follows:
- Upper Primary includes a set of 42 laminated picture/activity cards
- Middle Primary includes a set of 28 laminated picture/activity cards
- Lower Primary includes a set of 70 laminated picture/activity cards.
Samples & downloads
- Discovering History: Lower Primary Teacher Resource Book Download PDF (2.2MB)
- Discovering History: Lower Primary Blackline Masters Download PDF (1.2MB)
- Discovering History: Lower Primary Topic Card Download PDF (297KB)
- Discovering History: Lower Primary Student Topic Book - A to Z of Heritage Australia Download PDF (882KB)
- Discovering History: Lower Primary Student Topic Book - Our Community Download PDF (1MB)
- Discovering History: Lower Primary Student Topic Book - Objects and Stories Download PDF (678KB)
- Discovering History: Topic and Learning Sequence Download PDF (1.4MB)
- Discovering History: Middle Primary Teacher Resource Book Download PDF (2.2MB)
- Discovering History: Middle Primary Blackline Masters Download PDF (1.2MB)
- Discovering History: Middle Primary Topic Card Download PDF (236KB)
- Discovering History: Middle Primary Student Topic Book - First Fleet Download PDF (818KB)
- Discovering History: Middle Primary Student Topic Book - First Peoples Download PDF (931KB)
- Discovering History: Middle Primary Student Topic Book - Our Special Days Download PDF (756KB)
- Discovering History: Upper Primary Teacher Resource Book Download PDF (11.7MB)
- Discovering History: Upper Primary Blackline Masters Download PDF (1.2MB)
- Discovering History: Upper Primary Topic Card Download PDF (221KB)
- Discovering History: Upper Primary Student Topic Book - Australia in the 20th and 21st Century Download PDF (1.2MB)
- Discovering History: Upper Primary Student Topic Book - Colonial Australia Download PDF (958KB)
- Discovering History: Upper Primary Student Topic Book - History of Democracy Download PDF (2.3MB)
- Discovering History: Upper Primary Student Topic Book - Migration to Australia Download PDF (1.4MB)