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Free australian history projects
Australia Flip-book
Australia Acronym Flip book
This book was created as a culminating activity for an Australian unit. The pages are copied, stacked and stapled to create a booklet that spells Australia at the top.
Each letter page opens to a space for writing and illustrating Australian themed words for the focus letter.
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K - 3rd
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Indigenous Australian Art Symbols
Free activity pages showing some examples of Indigenous Australian art symbols and a page for students to try drawing some of their own. Aboriginal art and rock paintings are fascinating to study. The activity could accompany the student's own Indigenous dot style art projects and extend learning about Australia and its people. The pages assist in learning about cultures around the world, art history, First Nations and Australian history. NAIDOC week or any time. The coloring pages are provid
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2nd - 6th
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Postcard from Australia
FREEBIE Postcard template to use with your Australia unit.
Students will love writing to someone to tell them everything they know about Australia.
Various size postcard templates are included.
Students can either use the postcard with pictures on the front or a blank template so they can draw their own picture.
Be sure to check out the Australia Power Point and activities posted in our store. This postcard would make a great culminating activity for the unit.
Enjoy!
Kennedy's Korner
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1st - 6th
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The life of a soldier in World War One student activities
A Collection of Activities to help students imagine life as an ANZAC soldier during World War One.
Activities include.
1. Send a Postcard home
2. Eat like an Anzac – Making Hard Tac
3. A newsworthy story – writing a newspaper article.
4. Send a Christmas Billy
5. 24 hours in a day solider comic strip
6. Writing home.
7. Dear Diary.
8. A letter to a soldier.
Each activity is a single page of this PDF document. Simple ready tasks. Students can do one or a collection of them.
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9th
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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
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9th
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Australian Curriculum History - Personal and Family Histories
The Australian Curriculum History, in the Historical Knowledge and Understanding strand, includes Personal and Family Histories (Foundation level) and Present and Past Family Lives (Year 1). Historical skills encourage the use of graphics to communicate
historical knowledge and understanding. The making of family trees to show the relationship between family members covers both strands and provides a creative, fun and easily-understood way to focus teaching and learning activities on family rela
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PreK - 5th
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Western Australia Day Freebie
The foundation of the Swan River Colony is celebrated on the 1st June each year.
This pack includes a student booklet and PowerPoint presentation to help you teach about the beginning of the colony that became the city of Perth.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Poppy Wristbands – Commemoration Craft for ANZAC Day
ANZAC Day is commemorated on the 25th of April every year. These Poppy Wristbands are a nice way for children to show respect for those who served and can be easily decorated then worn.
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Not Grade Specific
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History Matrix Task - Dunkirk
Using the movie Dunkirk as the stimulus, Immerse your students in a dynamic learning experience with our comprehensive set of activities centered around World War II and the Dunkirk evacuation. Our package is designed to captivate young minds and instill a deep understanding of historical events. Here's a sneak peek into three captivating activities:3D Monument Masterpiece: Unleash your students' creativity! Task them with constructing a breathtaking diorama of a monument commemorating a signifi
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9th - 12th
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Poppy Flower Pot - Commemoration Craft for ANZAC Day
Create this Poppy Flower Pot as part of your Commemoration activities to start conversations about and explore the traditions of ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day.
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Not Grade Specific
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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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Grades:
4th - 7th
Guide For Embedding Australian Indigenous Perspectives in Early Childhood Ed
This product is designed to assist early childhood teachers and educators to facilitate the embedding of indigenous perspectives into their routine, program, and focused teaching. This product has been designed with the utmost sensitivity and respect for the indigenous people of Australia.A Guide to Using This Resource: 1. The table included provides suggestions for educators and teachers, to facilitate further learning with children. As a child’s interest is observed, e.g. you may observe a chi
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PreK - 2nd
Gold Rush STEM Bush Beds FREE STEM PROJECT SAMPLE Colonial Life
Explore common structures and techniques used during the gold rush and colonial times with these STEM activities! Follow the design process to design and build a working model of a bush bed; a form of bedding used during the gold rushes. For this free sample, you will receive a student work booklet (see below for details), pictures demonstrating how I built my model and sample pages from a completed workbook.***The full project can be found here!***Gold Rush STEM Projects:For each of the paid ST
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Not Grade Specific
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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
Captain Cook HASS & Mathematics Unit
This unit of 8 lessons aims to develop students understanding of the expeditions Captain Cook took and the impact that had upon Australia. Students will explore Captain Cook’s life, sequence relevant events in chronological order and examine the HMB Endeavour. Students will undertake a two-part integrated Mathematics project where they will map the voyage, create a timeline, create a scaled drawing of the ship and compare the HMB Endeavour with a ship from the First Fleet. This unit allows stude
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4th - 5th
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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
Changes in the Community Test
This is a History test assessing students on their knowledge at the end of the unit on Changes in the Australian Community. This test directly relates to the relevant History, Year 3 Australian Curriculum. Although can be adapted to suit Year 1, 2, 4 and 5.
It tests students on topics such as transportation, communication and natural and built environments.
Enjoy,
Emma ;)
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2nd - 4th
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First Fleet Project: Coin Chaos | 3D Print
First Fleet Project: Coin ChaosThe following project is aimed at students in year 4 and 5 and includes Australian Curriculum links. Students will come up with an inquiry focus around The First Fleet and design their own Commemorative Coin. Students will then create their design using free 3D printing software and justify why their design should be chosen.Student task sheet-Task-Part 1: Design and Research-Part 2: PersuadePart 3: PresentationCoin Project PowerPoint-Australian Curriculum links-Tas
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Grades:
4th - 5th
Hyde Park Barracks Lesson Plans
The website below includes two lesson plans for stage 3 which look at how people lived during colonial Australian times. The lessons were planned in conjunction with a visit to Hyde Park Barracks. NESA outcome HT3-2 describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time.
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4th - 6th
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Australian Pop Culture 1945- Project
This task has been designed to work with The Australian Curriculum Year 10 History content. In particular, it provides students with the opportunity to work towards for the following key content descriptors:
- ACDSEH027
- ACDSEH121
- ACDSEH122
- ACDSEH123
- ACDSEH149
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Grades:
10th
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Anzac Day Mini Inquiry
This is a mini-inquiry that should take at least 3 lessons. Slides are differentiated for levels 1, 2 and 3, including the information slides. This is a great activity to perform before or after ANZAC Day, when students are curious about what ANZAC Day is and why we celebrate it in Australia and New Zealand. The slides take the students through "The Inquiry Process", helping them understand what stage they are up to. I have found that when using the internet, the information supplied about ANZAC
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1st - 3rd
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Local History Project - Broken Hill (ICT)
A guided project based learning unit for students in grades 4 - 8, exploring the local history of Broken Hill and how it's transformation has caused change to Australia.
Use of ICT is important in this unit and several finished products are for use as assessment. This is a complete and in depth unit including links to English and HSIE curriculum outcomes for stages 2 and 3 (would also suit stage 4). Links to ICT learning also included.
This unit works well when students work together to create
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4th - 8th
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