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A high-school History teacher who is currently travelling and updating resources to share. Please leave some feedback so I can know if you liked the worksheet or resource or if there is something I can change to make it more accessible for all. My resources are generally scaffolded, offer a range of tasks that students from varying abilities can understand and the instruction is clear. The layouts and formatting between my worksheets are consistent and designed for clarity.

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A high-school History teacher who is currently travelling and updating resources to share. Please leave some feedback so I can know if you liked the worksheet or resource or if there is something I can change to make it more accessible for all. My resources are generally scaffolded, offer a range of tasks that students from varying abilities can understand and the instruction is clear. The layouts and formatting between my worksheets are consistent and designed for clarity.
History Essay Planner scaffold
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History Essay Planner scaffold

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This essay planner is designed to guide students through building their history essays by mapping out their ideas on an A3 print out size. The boxes are all digital text-boxes so it can be filled in or adapted digitally but works as a great hands-on task too. It is designed for senior levels are it pushes for students to write out their argument and judgment in the introduction, in their paragraph topic sentences, throughout the body paragraph, in their linking paragraph sentences and to finally conclude with a final judgment).
PIP Central Material Chapter Planning template
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PIP Central Material Chapter Planning template

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This A4 Personal Interest Project Central Material Chapter Planning template can be adjusted to turn into an A3 poster and printed so that students can begin workshopping their chapters for their PIPs. This scaffold is designed to help students organise their information into themes, plan out which methodologies work best while planning out their links to the syllabus concepts and continuity and change as required to meet the needs of the PIP as outlined in the Syllabus. My own students have found this very useful to organise their ideas, findings and data into chapters which become the starting point from which to turn their ideas into written chapters.
History Essay Planner
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History Essay Planner

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This essay planner is designed to guide students through building their history essays by mapping out their ideas on an A3 print out size. The boxes are all digital text-boxes so it can be filled in or adapted digitally but works as a great hands-on task too. It is designed for senior levels are it pushes for students to write out their argument and judgment in the introduction, in their paragraph topic sentences, throughout the body paragraph, in their linking paragraph sentences and to finally conclude with a final judgment).
Thai-Burma Railway POW worksheet lesson
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Thai-Burma Railway POW worksheet lesson

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This worksheet features 1 page of information about the POW experience working on the Thai-Burma Railway. Follow up questions from the reading passage and a create activity follow. This is worth 1-2 x 45 minute class. The creative activity has hands-on opportunity to imagine what it would have been like to be a POW and create artifacts from the experience as well as diary entry etc…
French Revolution Source Activity
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French Revolution Source Activity

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French Revolution Source Analysis Activity Using primary sources of images from the French Revolution of various Social groups, political drawings and themes of the period, students can imagine what it might have been like to live in the chaotic time! Resource is a 30 minute [approx] Jigsaw activity where students operate in groups. Instructions are included on how to scaffold this activity.
Rights and Freedoms PowerPoint
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Rights and Freedoms PowerPoint

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Rights and Freedoms for First Australians + Indigenous Rights and Policies Lesson Plan: Timing with activities worth 100+ minutes, syllabus links and topics include: First Australians, Day of Mourning, Australia day, Stolen Generation, Census, Sorry speech. Activities include: PowerPoint guide + visuals for activities and questions for students to follow - {matched to lesson plan must purchase separatley or go back to see bundle} Empathy tasks - diary entries and debates Worksheets + {must purchase separately or buy bundle pack} Primary source analysis: Images, testimonies, speeches Link for Kahoot revision Raw file so can be added to
Rights and Freedoms Lesson Plan
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Rights and Freedoms Lesson Plan

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Rights and Freedoms for First Australians + Indigenous Rights and Policies Lesson Plan: Timing with activities worth 100+ minutes, syllabus links and topics include: First Australians, Day of Mourning, Australia day, Stolen Generation, Census, Sorry speech. Activities include: PowerPoint guide + visuals for activities and questions for students to follow - matched to lesson plan {must purchase separately or buy resource pack} Empathy tasks - diary entries and debates Worksheets + {must purchase separately or buy resource pack} Primary source analysis: Images, testimonies, speeches Link for Kahoot revision Word file so it can be altered
Background to the Causes of World War One
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Background to the Causes of World War One

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This worksheet that has TWO activities designed to act as a revision worksheet at the end of the unit or a supplemental worksheet for students beginning the topic. It offers: A short passage about the context of the Nations involved in the rising tensions Primary sources which help visual learners A great homework task or to give to fast finishers Worksheet may take anywhere from 5 - 15 minutes depending on students ability
Background to the Causes of World War One
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Background to the Causes of World War One

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This worksheet that has TWO activities designed to act as a revision worksheet at the end of the unit or a supplemental worksheet for students beginning the topic. It offers: A short passage about the context of the Nations involved in the rising tensions Primary sources which help visual learners A great homework task or to give to fast finishers Worksheet may take anywhere from 5 - 15 minutes depending on student’s ability
Ancient Egypt Kinesthetic Social Pyramid Activity
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Ancient Egypt Kinesthetic Social Pyramid Activity

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This activity is a worksheet which teachers may use in a class to engage students who like using their hands to learn (Kinesthetic learners). It offers a cut out of the social classes of Ancient Egypt and a Pyramid, to which students may glue or pin the social classes. This activity can be used to extend their learning and as a complementary resource to information about the topic. - Resource can easily be altered to suit another society - Worksheet layout offers quick printing for busy teachers!
WW1 Artefact Discovery - Skill Development
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WW1 Artefact Discovery - Skill Development

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This Source-based activity designed to get students thinking about SIX items found from WW1. Specifics: - Highly scaffolded worksheet - Enough work for 1-2 x 40 minute lesson/s - Offers the ability for students to work individually or in a group. - FOUR activities are included in this resource which build on the previous activities. The second activity is an extension activity of the first which provides students with the opportunity to easily construct a paragraph based on the sources with evidence gathered from the previous activity. The third activity asks a question focused on the usefulness of the sources to a specific example. The fourth activity offers an extension activity of a creative nature. - An example is provided for students for activity 1. - Answer are provided for the teacher for the whole of activity 1 which is specific information about the sources provided. - Advice to teachers would be to print in colour if possible to help students see the items more clearly so they engage in the activity more. - Very suited to a mixed ability year 9 class as there are varying levels of sources to discover (some are easier to identify than others). - Can also be used for the HSC course as a quick activity to get students thinking and identifying the usefulness of sources... etc
WW1 Artefact Discovery - Skill Development
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WW1 Artefact Discovery - Skill Development

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This Source-based activity designed to get students thinking about SIX items found from WW1. Specifics: - Highly scaffolded worksheet - Enough work for 1-2 x 40 minute lesson/s - Offers the ability for students to work individually or in a group. - FOUR activities are included in this resource which build on the previous activities. The second activity is an extension activity of the first which provides students with the opportunity to easily construct a paragraph based on the sources with evidence gathered from the previous activity. The third activity asks a question focused on the usefulness of the sources to a specific example. The fourth activity offers an extension activity of a creative nature. - An example is provided for students for activity 1. - Answers are provided for the teacher for the whole of activity 1 which is specific information about the sources provided. - Advice to teachers would be to print in colour if possible to help students see the items more clearly so they engage in the activity more. - Very suited to a mixed ability year 9 class as there are varying levels of sources to discover (some are easier to identify than others). - Can also be used for the HSC course as a quick activity to get students thinking and identifying the usefulness of sources... etc
Global Inequalities - Sweatshops
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Global Inequalities - Sweatshops

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This worksheet provides information on the reality of Sweatshops for the Global Inequalities topic. The worksheet offers a case study and information on a garment factory collapse from 2013 with questions for students. The worksheet also offers students the chance to think about their own consumer habits and offers an empathy task. Suited to 25-40mins of work depending on Student ability.
World War Two Syllabus Point Activities
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World War Two Syllabus Point Activities

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This collection of WWII resources includes information and many activities covering the Rise of Japanese Militarism, the Experience of Australian POW's on the Thai-Burma Railway and a whole unit including - The Japanese in the Pacific including; The Kokoda Trail, The Fall of Singapore, Prisoner’s of War, Pearl Harbor, Censorship, Darwin Bombings.
Rise of Japanese Militarism
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Rise of Japanese Militarism

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34-slide Powerpoint with activities, sources, images, questions and information covering the history of the Rise of Japanese Militarism up until and including WWII. Should cover 2-4 whole lessons. Includes: - Militarism (what is it?) - Japan after WWI - Japan’s strategy for dealing with the Depression - Natural resources (what they had and what they needed) - Invasion of Manchuria 1931 - The ‘Rape of Nanking’ - The move into South East Asia - The attack on the United States - Pearl Harbor (Attack and significance) - Japan's threat to Australia
Geography of Ancient China Activity
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Geography of Ancient China Activity

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Introduction to the Geography of Ancient China which includes a cloze passage activity and a question relating to how the environment impacts border development. Should take students 5-20 minutes depending on ability.
Experience of POW's and the Thai-Burma Railway
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Experience of POW's and the Thai-Burma Railway

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Information with photographs, questions and activities. The activities allow students to work in groups or as individuals. Both questions and activities are scaffolded for low to high ability learners. 3 x page document of worksheets should cover 2 x 40-minute lessons. A strong class may be able to finish it in one lesson + homework.
World War II - Australians in the Pacific Unit
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World War II - Australians in the Pacific Unit

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Australia in the Pacific - 27 slide PowerpPoint offers activities, primary sources, information, videos, many images and examples in line with the History curriculum. Material worth approx 6-7 x 40 minute lessons. Powerpoint offers: - The Japanese in the Pacific - Kokoda Trail - Fall of Singapore - Prisoner’s of War - Pearl Harbor - Censorship - Darwin Bombings Some activities include: - Primary evidence: An Australian soldier’s account of conditions on the Kokoda Trail. Short but detail account which students can use to write about and understand what it may have been like. - Empathy task: If you were a POW of the Japanese in WWII. Instructions and ideas included for students - Ethical task: Debate about censorship. Instructions included - More included
WW1 Crossword Puzzle on Terms and Concepts
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WW1 Crossword Puzzle on Terms and Concepts

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Fun activity designed to match the WW1 terms and concept worksheet also posted here, this activity is to check student understanding on their terms and concepts. Can also be used for fast finishers/homework! Should take students 10-20 minutes depending on the level of understanding/previous knowledge of terms. Features some black and white cartoons to keep their level of interest up, as well as a guess who which students should be able to guess if they have successfully completed the puzzle.