Overview

  • Year Levels F–6
  • Curriculum ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
  • Subject Humanities
  • Resource Formats Print
  • 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.

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