About this resource

This resource can be used by students for research and source analysis. It is intended to be 'dipped in and out of'.

It supports the history topics: 

• Stage 2 Community and Remembrance 

• Stage 4 Life Skills Making a Better World.

With teacher guidance it also supports the topics:

• Stage 1 Present and Past Family Life

• Stage 1 The Past in the Present

Home page gallery

The objects on the home page are arranged chronologically. They are grouped into three eras with twelve featured objects representing each era. For each featured object there are two to four connected objects. Eras:

• 1870 to 1910

• 1910 to 1950

• 1950 to 1980. 

Circa 

The word 'circa' is used when an exact date is unknown. 'Circa' means 'approximately'. The abbreviation for it is 'c.', for example, 'c.1890' means 'approximately 1890'.

Jigsaw groupings

In groups of three to six students, each student learns about one object and shares it with their group. Students select objects of interest or similar objects from different eras to enable comparisons.

Chronological sequencing

Students nominate a theme such as writing technologies and create an annotated visual timeline of examples over time.

Source analysis

Students practise source analysis skills using featured objects. They could use a source analysis table with the headings – title and date, creator, purpose, key information, what it provides evidence of, questions raised.

Continuity and change

Students identify continuities and changes within a theme such as map making and use examples of objects to support their explanations.

Cause and effect

Students identify causes and effects of changes in technologies, learning resources or teaching styles in education such as the connection of electricity, invention of plastic and introduction of colour printing.

Evidence-based inferences

Students compose historical narratives on one or more aspects of education through time. They draw on evidence in featured and connected objects to support their narrative. They comment on the usefulness of their sources and identify questions that remain unanswered.

Stage 2 History K-10 

Outcomes

HT2-2 describes and explains how significant individuals, groups and events contributed to changes in the local community over time

HT2-5 applies skills of historical inquiry and communication

Historical concepts and skills

Use of sources, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathetic understanding, significance

Community and Remembrance

Key inquiry questions

• How has our community changed? What features have been lost and what features have been retained?

Content

ONE important example of change and ONE important example of continuity over time in the local community, region or state/territory (ACHHK061)

• Using a range of sources, describe and explain how and why ONE area, e.g. transport, work, education, entertainment and daily life, has changed or ONE that has remained the same in the local area, region or state/territory since colonial times