Overview

Comprehensive curriculum coverage of history, geography, economics and business, civics and citizenship.

  • Year Levels 7–10
  • Curriculum VIC
  • Subject Humanities
  • Resource Formats Print, Digital
  • Learning Focus Geography, History, Economics

What it is

Pearson Humanities Victoria for Years 7–10 comprehensively covers history, geography, economics and business, civics, and citizenship aligned with the Victorian Curriculum. Engaging student books and teacher resources feature support for learners, including:

  • “Did you know?” snippets
  • captivating source material
  • real-world scenarios
  • in-depth case studies and research
  • visually appealing illustrations and infographics.

How it helps

Learners

Tailor topics to learners: Use optional flexible customised teaching solutions to emphasise topics of interest and increase learner engagement.

Support different learning needs: Implement included teaching strategies for English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD) students.

Content designed for approachability: Simplify complex concepts for learners with the clear language and explanations introduced in the new solution.

Educators

Choose your course structure: Customise teaching to suit separate year-long courses or opt for a tailored humanities solution made just for your school.

Contributions by experienced authors: Benefit from the contributions of specialists with extensive knowledge of history, geography, economics and business, civics, and citizenship

Options for differentiation: Maximise student growth and individual success with coursework and learning activities geared towards differentiation.

What it includes

Discover how Pearson Humanities Victoria improves teaching outcomes.

Components

Student books

The Pearson Humanities Victoria Student Book includes:

  • comprehensive coverage of the Victorian Humanities curriculum
  • an eBook for both online and offline use
  • visually attractive spread-based design
  • engaging images, illustrations, infographics, and source materials throughout each chapter
  • self-contained skills toolkit chapters for each discipline that cover key curriculum concepts
  • additional worksheets, solutions, teaching strategies, instructional rubrics, chapter tests and online interactives to support core chapters
  • customisability that allows for the semester-based approach to be developed into separate year-long courses or a tailored Humanities solution.

Components

eBooks

A convenient companion to the student book, the Pearson Humanities Victoria Student eBook includes:

  • accessibility on any device, online or offline
  • content and digital interactives that enhance and extend the reading experience
  • quick navigation, notes and bookmarks that help students engage on their devices
  • the option to add, edit, and delete highlights and notes to help learners organise content
  • state and data synchronisation across multiple devices even when users are offline to ensure content is up to date.

Components

Lightbook Starter

An innovative digital resource powered by Pearson's award-winning Lightbook technology, this companion helps you:

  • refresh and strengthen your knowledge of key concepts
  • assess student understanding
  • track class progress.

Lightbook Starter achieves this with:

  • a huge variety of question types, stimulus material and interactivity catering to all learners
  • two levels of hint support for each question so learners are supported when working independently
  • ability to track student progress by topic/chapter or Victorian Curriculum content descriptors.

Please note: some functionalities are only accessible to learners part of a participating Lightbook class, and full access is only available to subscribing schools – not for individual self-study.

Components

Teacher eBooks

The Pearson Humanities Victoria Teacher eBook includes:

  • student book page references combined with a wealth of teacher support to simplify lesson preparation.
  • classroom-ready support to allow you to plan with good visibility of chapter contents
  • learning strategies, learning intentions and teaching strategies to make lesson preparation easier
  • answers (or suggested solutions) to every student book, worksheet or additional question to save you time
  • extra printable templates and graphic organisers for practical classroom activities and research tasks.

Humanities Webinars

Geography: Peter Byrne

In this webinar, Peter Byrne looks at the Year 9 elective 'Our climate and food production: Living as if the planet matters'. He explains how learning about sustainable development requires linking theory and practice and encouraging forms of ‘environmental citizenship’ in the search for solutions.

About Peter Byrne: Peter is a co-author of the Pearson Humanities Victoria series. He began writing professionally in 1999 and has been published in Australia and overseas. Peter has written textbooks, assessments, online learning material and teaching programs, with his focus being Humanities in Years 7-12. A teacher by profession, Peter is currently working in examination development.

Humanities Webinars

Civics and citizenship: Jessica Battersby

In this mini-webinar, Jessica Battersby moves past the formal democratic process to skill and capability building for our future generations of leaders. She covers social media, making judgements and forming conclusions, and how to take action on issues students can engage with.

About Jessica Battersby: Jessica is co-author of the Pearson Humanities Victoria series. She has been teaching for ten years including teaching English and Humanities to students in years 7-12 at Koonung Secondary College and Camberwell High School, interrupted by a year teaching in London.

Humanities Webinars

Economics and business: Glenn Fischmann

In this webinar, Glenn Fischmann shares lessons learned from teaching on personal finance and careers, politics and economics, and accounting and business. He explores tasks and unit design that can increase student engagement and help demonstrate their skills and knowledge, mimicking real-world challenges.

About Glenn Fischmann: Glenn developed questions, teaching strategies and worked solutions for the Pearson Humanities Victoria series and is the Head of Business at Frankston High School and a teacher of Business, Accounting, Economics and Civics. This is his 13th year of full-time teaching. Glenn is a regular presenter at the VCTA’s COMVIEW conference and he’s been involved in the VCAA Civics Curriculum Development Project.

Humanities Webinars

History: Catherine Hart

In this webinar, Catherine Hart examines how to explicitly teach cause and consequence and historical significance to move beyond a chronological narrative. She shares how this helps us better examine changes and continuities that emerge in history as we shift across and between time periods.

About Catherine Hart: In Catherine’s 25-year teaching career she’s worked as a senior lecturer in History and Humanities Education in NSW and VIC universities and spent the last 10 years as a Secondary school teacher and Head of Department in Victorian Secondary Schools. She also regularly presents at HTAV Professional Development and Student Revision events and has published over 20 refereed academic papers on History teaching and learning.

Meet the authors

Pearson Humanities Victoria 7 Student Book

Geography Coordinating Author:

  • Grant Kleeman

Contributors:

  • Penny Addison
  • Paige Amor
  • Catherine Arends
  • Xenofon Arvanitis
  • Jessica Battersby
  • Peter Byrne
  • Susan Caldis
  • Mohan Dhall
  • James Fiford
  • David Hamper
  • Brigid Howell
  • Christine Morrow
  • Ingrid Purnell
  • Helen Rhodes
  • Amanda Ritter
  • Vanessa Smith
  • Sharon Szczecinski
  • Kim Wilson

Meet the authors

Pearson Humanities Victoria 8 Student Book

Geography Coordinating Author:

  • Grant Kleeman

Contributors:

  • Penny Addison
  • Paige Amor
  • Catherine Arends
  • Alan Atkinson
  • Jess Battersby
  • Peter Byrne
  • Mohan Dhall
  • David Hamper
  • Brigid Howell
  • Brigid James
  • Renee Preval-Mann
  • Ingrid Purnell
  • Max Quanchi
  • Helen Rhodes
  • Amanda Ritter
  • Christine Smith
  • Vanessa Smith
  • Rebecca Stephens
  • Sharon Szczecinski
  • David van Tol
  • Kim Wilson

Meet the authors

Pearson Humanities Victoria 9 Student Book

Geography Coordinating Author:

  • Grant Kleeman

Contributors:

  • Penny Addison
  • Paige Amor
  • Jessica Battersby
  • Peter Bromhead
  • Peter Byrne
  • John Butler
  • Mohan Dhall
  • Galit Dresden
  • James Fiford
  • David Hamper
  • Eloise Haynes
  • Brigid Howell
  • Rod Lane
  • Tibor Lendvai
  • Kate Mellor
  • Christine Morrow
  • Andrew Peters
  • Ingrid Purnell
  • Helen Rhodes
  • Amanda Ritter
  • Vanessa Smith
  • Sharon Szczecinski
  • David Van Tol

Meet the authors

Pearson Humanities Victoria 10 Student Book

Geography Coordinating Author:

  • Grant Kleeman

Contributors:

  • Jessica Battersby
  • Peter Bromhead
  • Peter Byrne
  • Mohan Dhall
  • James Fiford
  • David Hamper
  • Eloise Haynes
  • Brigid Howell
  • Brigid James
  • Rod Lane
  • Kate Mellor
  • Andrew Peters
  • Renee Preval-Mann
  • Ingrid Purnell
  • Helen Rhodes
  • Sharon Szczecinski
  • Christine Smith
  • Vanessa Smith
  • Rebecca Stephens
  • Kim Wilson

Meet the authors

Pearson Humanities Victoria 7, 8, 9 and 10 Lightbook Starter

  • Peter Byrne
  • Sharon Szczecinski

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