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Australia and Oceania Map Assignment and Webquest | NO PREP | Google Classroom
Introductory map assignment and webquest for Australia/Oceania unit. Students find and identify key political and physical features of the continent while learning more about the history of Australia. No prep needed - just make a copy of the Google Slides and assign it to Google Classroom, Schoology, Canva, ect. Students will need access to a computer, digital learning platform and search engine to complete this assignment!
Grades:
4th - 12th
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International Women's Day Research Pack - Free Download
The perfect resource to get your students thinking about International Women's Day! The aim of these activities is to provide students with a better understanding of the purpose of IWD on March 8th. This resource helps students apply their reading, comprehension and research skills to learn about influential women in history. .This pack is a series of 3 mini research activities:The purpose and history of IWDFemale inventorsColonial Women and Influential womenAll the pages include a QR code to a
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Australian Celebrations BUNDLE - Years 5 - 6
ANZAC Day Research Questions Activity
ANZAC Day is such an important day in Australia and these research questions have been designed for middle primary students to use to guide independent research. Their answers can then be used to inform their responses to a range of writing activities such as a letter to an ANZAC, imaginative writing, the importance of ANZAC Day, a research report and so on. It would also be great on its own!
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2nd - 4th
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The Life of an ANZAC soldier in World War One Student Assignment
This is an assignment where students choose a soldier that served during World War One and research that Soldier. The students then complete a number of tasks about that soldier, to create a Personal File for that Soldier. There are clear step by step instructions to follow to guide the students through the project.
Students learn to read official soldier service records, they write diary and letters as the soldier and complete a timeline and map of the soldiers journey.
A teachers marking gui
Grades:
9th
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ANZAC Day Victoria Cross Recipients Biography research activity - FREE
About these resourcesThis teaching resource includes a research activity for 2 Australians who were awarded a Victoria Cross during World War One. This is an example of a number of sets of resources looking at each of the Australians who have been awarded a Victoria Cross Medal for acts of bravery during wartime conflict.This resource contains research activities on 2 Victoria Cross recipients. Each includes a portrait of the soldier and their full name to assist students in accurately searching
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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ANZAC Day Project
This resource has been designed for students to complete independently, taking approximately one week. It involves the students researching and learning about what ANZAC day means, and interviewing a relative to find out their experiences during a war.
This could also be a teacher directed activity.
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Geography Project Year 6 Australi
Grades:
4th - 7th
World War 2 POW Australia Experiences in Japanese Prisoner of War camps
This contains a comprehensive list of research activities including20 MCQs 20 Short Answer Questions based on 4 sources (2 Pictures and 2 Written Sources)15 Short Answer Questions on the camps, conditions, experiences and interactions with the guards2 Comprehensive Extended responsesGiving students a comprehensive understanding of life of Australian POWs in Japanese camps
Grades:
9th - 11th
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Australian Settlement Convict ID Card
A fun and interactive way for students to learn about convicts and their experience during Australian Settlement using this Convict I.D. Card.
Students always find it interesting to look through the convict database records (www.convictrecords.com.au). They can enhance their knowledge and understanding of convicts by recording the information found about different convicts on the I.D. cards.
Get your students to draw a picture of the convict in the box on the left hand side.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Year 5 Geography Australian Curriculum | Year 5 HASS | FREE SAMPLE
Are you teaching Year 5 Geography lessons that link with the Australian Curriculum? This HASS unit of work looks at climate change, Europe/ North America, bushfire and flood management. Set up to have easy to use worksheets and inquiry discussions with your class. THIS IS A FREE SAMPLE OF THE FOLLOWING RESOURCE. You will be able to help your students discuss and become critical thinkers of the risk of floods and climate change. Promote rich discussions easily with these prompts and actions. If
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Year 5 Civics and Citizenship Australian Curriculum| Year 5 HASS |SAMPLE
Are you teaching Year 5 Civics and Citizenship lessons that link with the Australian Curriculum? This HASS unit of work looks at democracy, election process, laws and regulations and volunteering. Set up to have easy to use worksheets and inquiry discussions with your class. THIS IS A FREE SAMPLE OF THE FOLLOWING RESOURCE.The sample resource allows you to easily teach democracy; provide students with an understanding of what democracy and its importance in our society. If you are interested in
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Aboriginal Australians Research Activity
The perfect activity to teach your students about Aboriginal histories in Australia! This research activity features: - 8 questions for students to research - prompting websites - a mixture of short answer and multiple-choice questions
Grades:
7th - 12th
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The Bombing of Darwin 1942
A Blooms Taxonomy unit plan for a brief study of the Japanese bombing of Darwin in 1942.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Captain James Stirling 1
This resource integrates Literacy with SCSA Year 5 History (ACHASSK110). The text can be read with the whole class, in Guided Reading Sessions or individually. It supports the reading strategy 'Summarising'. Students identify the key points in the text and complete the Captain James Stirling Biography page.
Grades:
5th
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The Frontier Massacres - Interactive Q's & Source Analysis. Year 9 Humanities.
Full Lesson activity including questions relating to the Guardian Australia's interactive research piece on the Frontier Massacres, "the Killing Times", & 2 source analysis images with guided analysis matrix (Indigenous Australian & While Colonist POV).
Grades:
8th - 9th
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20th Century Immigration to Australia Timeline
This booklet contain information including population to Australia in the 20th Century.
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Early Contact between Aboriginal Peoples and the British Timeline
Timeline to assist plot the early contacts between Aboriginal People and the British during Colonisation in Australia. Can be used to include any 6 events of your choosing.
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Grades:
4th
Fremantle Prison- History of a Significant Place
Fact sheet about Fremantle Prison to be used in HASS. Comprehension questions and 3,2,1 response included.
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1st - 3rd
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FREE: SBS First Australians response sheet Year 9 AC History
This resource is a quick response task to the first episode of the SBS Series First Australians: They Have Come to Stay.
It's a wonderful series available on SBS On-Demand and YouTube.
This resource is free and is not intended for profit.
Grades:
8th - 10th
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Australian Gold Rush year 5 History
HISTORY-linking to English/literacy/writing
This mind map was created for my year 5 students. Please print the mind map on A3 paper. The students needed to do research on the Australian gold rush for history using their computer skills, and then write a report on the information gathered.
ACHHK094, ACHASSI095
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5th
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Commemorating World War One - Research Activity
This is an engaging research task where students discover the various ways that the events of World War One are commemorated. Students are required to research the origin behind each commemoration, and then follow this with understanding the meaning behind those commemorations.
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Not Grade Specific
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Australia Day/ Invasion Day
This is a web-based activity for pupils in upper secondary schools. Article with links and discussion questions. It gives indigenous perspectives on Australia Day. Aimed primarily at upper secondary pupils outside of Australia.
https://teachik.com/australia-day-invasion-day/
Grades:
11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Australian Animal Reports
This is a template for a cross-curricular (Social Studies and Science) Australian Animal report, project, poster, PowerPoint, etc. It is versatile and the Australian part can be removed if other countries need to be used.
This should take an average middle school classroom around 3 full class periods to complete. This activity can be done independently, small group or large group, depending on your need.
Thanks, S. Priebe
This work by S. Priebe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attributi
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Grade 4 Organism Profile Research Booklet
This booklet can be used for documenting research on an organism, within humanities and social sciences. Students choose an organism to research and the educator can provide websites for students to use in order to gain appropriate information. They also are learning to reference where they find their information and this booklet allows them to practice this skill.
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Grades:
4th
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