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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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.
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/
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.
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.
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.