Websites Worth Bookmarking
Resources and Support for the Australian Curriculum
- Find the Curriculum online
https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/humanities-and-social-sciences/hass/ - QHTA
The Queensland History Teachers Association offers advice, professional development and support materials. Download an application form at: http://qhta.com.au/ - Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority
The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority offers professional development and support materials. Resources (including planning documents and standards) can be found at: https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/ - Best of History Web Sites
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.http://besthistorysites.net/ - BBC History
Games, articles and useful resources
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history - Internet History Project
A huge supply of primary source material for Ancient, Medieval, Modern History and a large range of specific sub sections (such as women’s history). These will need to be mediated by teachers but can be accessed by older, more skilled students.
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/index.asp - Australian War Memorial
A wide range of material on Australia’s participation in international conflicts
http://www.awm.gov.au/ - Gallipoli and the Anzacs
Dedicated to all things ANZAC
http://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/ - National Library of Australia Picture Australia
A wonderful source of visual evidence
http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/australian-pictures-in-trove - Trove- National Library of Australia
An equally wonderful range of magazines, newspapers, pictures etc all digitalised from the collection of the National Library
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ - NSW Syllabus and Support material
- Western Australia Syllabus and Support material
https://wace1516.scsa.wa.edu.au/syllabus-and-support-materials/humanities-and-social-sciences
- Wonders of the African World
Some interesting material about African history
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/ - Livius
Articles and resources for Ancient History
http://www.livius.org/ - Spartacus
An eclectic mix of useful resources suitable for a range of topics –aimed at Middle Year students in Great Britain
http://spartacus-educational.com/ - Discovering Democracy
A wide range of teaching ideas, including primary evidence, for teaching issues related to civics and citizenship in Australia
http://www1.curriculum.edu.au/ddunits/units/units.htm - The National Centre for History Education
The National Centre for History Education provides information and resources which have been developed for teachers involved in the teaching of history in primary and secondary schools across Australia. The National Centre is part of The National History Project.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/31185/20090417-0004/www.hyperhistory.org/index.html - The Learning Federation
This online resource project is best accessed through Scootle - Scootle
Access the Learning Federation here. Scootle provides access to more than 8,990 items of digital curriculum content. Users can find interactive learning objects, images, audio files and movie clips via browse, search and filter technology.
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/p/home - National Film & Sound Archive
NFSA Digital Learning combines the former Screen Australia Digital Learning websites and NFSA’s online education resources. These content rich education websites feature thousands of video and audio clips available for streaming and downloading.
http://www.nfsa.gov.au/digitallearning/ - Australian political cartooning
A history of Australian Political cartooning with great links to resources and information on a range of Australian issues.
http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-political-cartooning - Australians Together
http://www.australianstogether.org.au/about
Australians Together exists to help Indigenous and non-Indigenous people gain a better understanding about our past and commit to a better future. - Parliamentary Education Office
Resources for teachers and students about Australian Parliament
http://www.peo.gov.au/ - VROOM
The Virtual Reading Room of the National Archives of Australia.
You need to register but it is well worth the effort!
http://vrroom.naa.gov.au/
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
A page set up to assist teachers to access and use Australian statistics in the classroom
http://www.abs.gov.au/teachers - Map as History
This site is a subscriber site but also has free samples in most categories of an interesting range of interactive maps (such as Athenian democracy).
http://www.the-map-as-history.com/ - HyperHistory Online
HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html - The Avalon Project (Yale University)
Links to legal documents throughout time( see also Human Rights at Project Diana and Nuremberg trial documents at same site)
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ - Asian Education Foundation (was Access Asia)
Great ideas for integrating the study of Asia into the classroom
http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/ - Text Queensland
Text Queensland is a free website presenting a unique and dynamic collection of full-text searchable, digitised sources on Queensland’s colonial and state history
http://www.textqueensland.com.au/ - National Archives Australia
Fact sheets on a variety of subjects and people in the Australian Curriculum, and link to a selection of records and further information. They are a useful starting point for research.
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/ - Making History: a guide for the teaching and learning of history in Australian schools
Tony Taylor & Carmel Young
- PDF Version
This version is divided into eight chapters which are loaded as pdf files. Each chapter can be downloaded and printed off separately, or can be printed as sets of pages. More useful for a teacher who wants to take away sections at a time – or print out the whole Guide. - Hypertext Version
This version of the Guide is divided into small manageable sections which are linked through hypertext. These links also connect to other parts of the guide as well as to other online sites. More useful for browsers.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/31185/20090417-0004/www.hyperhistory.org/index.html
- PDF Version
- Collections Australia Network (CAN)
(formerly Australian Museums & Galleries Online (AMOL)) – gateway to museums, galleries, archives and libraries throughout Australia..
http://aumuseums.com/nsw/collections-australia-network - Australian Museum
Australia’s first museum established in 1827 with an international reputation in the fields of natural history and indigenous studies research, community programs and exhibitions.
http://australianmuseum.net.au/ - National Museum of Australia
Museum of social history, and focuses on three broad research areas that feed into the Museum’s three themes of land, nation and people: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture; Australia’s history and society since European settlement in 1788; and, the interaction of people with the environment.http://www.nma.gov.au/ - Powerhouse Museum
Australia’s largest museum with an unique and diverse collection of objects spanning history, science, technology, design, industry, decorative arts, music, transport and space exploration.http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/ - Australian National Maritime Museum
Collecting and exhibition development centred around five display themes – Discovery (including First Australians), Passengers, Commerce, Leisure and Navy. Another was added when the USA funded a gallery of US-Australian maritime links as its gift to the nation for the 1988 Bicentenary celebrations.
http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm - Project Gutenberg of Australia
Information about the history and exploration of Australia together with a number of freely available ebooks about Australia or written by Australians.
http://gutenberg.net.au/aust-history.html - SETIS Project (Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service at the University of Sydney Library)
Editions of hundreds of Australian literary and historical texts.
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/oztexts/ozlit.html
- South Seas
Concentrates on the history of European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific between 1760 and 1800. Provides access to the full text of works such as James Cook’s Endeavour Journal.
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/ - Documenting a Democracy- Australia’s Story
Covers constitutional and political history with an emphasis on federated Australia.
http://foundingdocs.gov.au/ - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
Contains concise, authoritative accounts of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/ - Federation Gateway
Help in locating a wide variety of materials (books, web sites, pictures and manuscripts) relating to the Federation of Australia.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/131193/20111216-1107/www.nla.gov.au/guides/federation/index.html - National Archives Britain
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htmEducational resources at this archive: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/ - National Archives Ireland
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/
- Year 9 Free resource
It is a free publication with teacher and student resources for Year 9 “The Making of the Modern World”.The following link goes to the Cricket Australia student resources site.
http://community.cricket.com.au/schools/cricket-smart/lesson-plans - History in the Making
This is a series of new primary teaching and learning units designed to support the History curriculum from Foundation to Year 6 – based on the Australian Curriculum: History. Produced by the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia and the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria, they provide lesson plans, assessment matrices and worksheets. Search for ‘History in the Making’ in Scootle or use this learning path. You will need to create a log in if you have not already registered. Scootle is free for Australian educators.Topics covered range from an ‘Exploration of Time’ for Foundation students and ‘Commemorating the ANZAC legend’ for Year 3 students to ‘Journeys to Australia’ for Year 6 students. - Discover Education
Despite being a US site this project offers free resources to teachers and the ability to create Crosswords, word searches and other puzzles. It is free but does require a log in.
http://www.discoveryeducation.com//teachers/
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/index.cfm?campaign=flyout_teachers_puzzle - Making History: a guide for the teaching and learning of history in Australian schools
Tony Taylor & Carmel Youngem>- PDF Version
This version is divided into eight chapters which are loaded as pdf files. Each chapter can be downloaded and printed off separately, or can be printed as sets of pages. More useful for a teacher who wants to take away sections at a time – or print out the whole Guide. - Hypertext Version
This version of the Guide is divided into small manageable sections which are linked through hypertext. These links also connect to other parts of the guide as well as to other online sites. More useful for browsers.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/31185/20090417-0004/www.hyperhistory.org/index.html
- PDF Version
- The Australian Journey video series is live on the Museum’s website:
http://www.nma.gov.au/education/resources/activities/australian-journey/ - and the Museum’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLalNYVqfWoKOY-0vTgzSdgLgAglpKOs7l - Timeline Creators
Tne is an EQ resource https://learningplace.eq.edu.au/cx/resources/items/bdb1c548-e76b-8fb5-4f37-3f94ded5c289/1/ViewIMS.jsp
Timetoast http://www.timetoast.com/
Timegraphics https://time.graphics/ - Excel timeline templates https://templates.office.com/en-za/Timelines
- MS Project https://products.office.com/en-au/project/project-and-portfolio-management-software?tab=tabs-1
- Project Libre (Open Source) http://www.projectlibre.com/product/projectlibre-open-source
- Gantt Project http://www.ganttproject.biz/
- Meistertask https://www.meistertask.com/?r_campaign=capterra_free-open-source-project-management-software/
- Trello https://trello.com/
https://www.timetoast.com/
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/timeline-30007.html - The History Chicks
The History Chicks create educational and interesting podcasts focusing on female historical figures. Their latest podcast Episode 97: Queen Lili’uokalani is about the first queen to rule Hawaii. Don’t forget to check out their archives – there is plenty of variety. - Female Factory Online
Online database of the convicted and free women (and their children) who spent time in the Female Factory in Paramatta from 1821 to 1848. - ‘World War 1 on the Home Front: the City of Melbourne 1914-1918’
Article uses the Melbourne City Council’s Town Clerk correspondence to examine the experience of World War I on the home front in an Australian City.. - How People Learn to Become Resilient
Perception is key to resilience: Do you conceptualise an event as traumatic, or as a chance to learn and grow? - FOR RIGHTS and FREEDOMS year 10
http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/105332/two-years-after-the-1966-wave-hill-walk-off - Environmental year 10
http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/28737/fighting-for-lake-pedder
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