Australian History Series Workbook 2: Ages 7-8 years
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Title: Australian ustra n History Series WORKBOOK WORK ORK OOK 2 The Past in the Present Presen
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Contents Thi is This i a Ready-Ed R d Ed Publications' P bli ti ' book preview. SECTION 1: SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE PLE AND PLACES
SECTION 3: CHANGING CHANGI TECHNOLOGY AND PEOPLE'S LIVES
The History of a Significant Person Activity Person of Historical Interest Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Cemetery Crawl Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Defining Local Activity Local Places Activity A Place of Historical Interest Activity Places of Interest in Australia Activity
Technology and Tr Travel Activity Technology and Buildings Activity 1 Activity 2 Newspapers Activity Written Documents Activity Photographs Activity 1 Activity 2 Then and Now Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Activity 5 Activity 6 Activity 7
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SECTION 2: SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE Historical Sites Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Indigenous Places Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3
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Word Bank Word Game Cards Create a Local History Box Memory Game
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Person of Historical Interest 1
Researching people of historical interest can tell us a lot about the past.
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Person of Historical Interest 2 Timelines help us understand a person’s past.
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Person of Historical Interest 3 Family trees help us to understand a person’s past.
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Chosen person: person:___________________ Date of birth: ______________________ Place of birth:_______________________
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Cemetery Crawl 1
Cemeteries are like books. They can tell us about people who lived in the past.
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Cemetery Crawl 2
Cemeteries can reveal problems of pioneering, the sadness of family losses, the deaths of young children and local legends and the details of murders and drownings. drow drown ngs.
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T List three causes of death that you can see in one of the periods: 1800s-1850s, 1850s-1900s or 1900s-1950s. • ______________________________________________________ • ______________________________________________________ • ______________________________________________________ T List some of the different nationalities of people buried in the graves. es.
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Cemetery Crawl 3
T Name three prominent people’s graves.
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Cemetery Crawl 4 Cemeteries are full of mysteries and puzzles. Solve them to reconstruct the past.
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Defining Local
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A person can be local to Australia, local to their school, local to their suburb and local to their street.
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Complete the Tasks 1. Mark where you live on the map with an X. 2. Define your local area ________________________________ ___________________________________________________ 3. Which state/territory do we live in? ______________________ 4. Write the name of our state on the map.
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5. What is our ccapital pita city? _______________________________ _____________________________ 6. Use a pencil and a ruler to create boundaries around local areas on the map.
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Local Places
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Places are often significant.
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A Place of Historical Interest
Researching the history of your local area is like doing a jigsaw puzzle or being a detective. Your job is to piece together all the evidence using many sources.
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Questions 1. When was it named? ___________________________________ 2. Why was that name chosen? _____________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ 3. What does it tell you about the past? ______________________ _____________________________________________________
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Places of Interest in Australia There are many places of historical interest in Australia.
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Section 22: Sites of Significance
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Historical Sites 1
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Historical Sites 2 Local sites can tell us about the history of a local area.
T Paste a photograph pho g ph or draw a picture of your phot our chosen local site.
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Questions 1. Where is your chosen site? ______________________________ ____________________________________________________ 2. Why should people visit this site? ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ 3. Write five words that best describe your chosen site. ____________________________________________________ __________ __________________________________
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Historical Sites 3 War memorials are important to us today.
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Historical Site 4 Many people do not realise the importance of sites.
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Indigenous Places 1
There are many indigenous sites, places and landscapes in Australia.
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Indigenous Places 2
There are many indigenous sites, places and landscapes in WA.
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Indigenous Places 3
There are many indigenous sites, places and landscapes in Australia.
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Changing Technology and People's Lives
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Technology has changed the way that we travel.
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Technology and Buildings 1
Technology has changed the buildings in which we live and work.
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Technology has changed the buildings in which we live and work.
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Headline: _______________________________________ Reporter: ______________________________________ Topic of article: _________________________________ What does it tell you about how people lived in the past? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________
T Draw one or more of the visuals, or create your own to go with the story.
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Written Documents
Documents can record how technology has affected the way we live.
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Photographs 1
Photographs can record changes in technology over several generations.
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Timekeeping devices measure time. The devices that we use today are different from those used years ago.
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The items that we use today are different from those used in the past.
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Then and Now 3
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Toys that you play with today are very different from the toys that children played with in the past.
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Technology has changed the way we live. Homes in the past did not have electricity.
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Technology has changed the things that we use in our homes.
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