Australian History Series: Book 2-The Past in the Present

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Contents

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Teachers' Notes National Curriculum Links

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Section 1: Significant People and Places The History of a Significant Person Teachers' Notes Activity Person of Historical Interest Teachers' Notes Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Cemetery Crawl Teachers' Notes Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Defining Local Teachers' Notes Activity Local Places Teachers' Notes Activity A Place of Historical Interest Teachers' Notes Activity Places of Interest in Australia Teachers' Notes Activity

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Section 2: Sites of Significance Historical Sites Teachers' Notes Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4

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Indigenous Places Teachers' Notes Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3

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Section 3: Changing Technology and People's Lives Technology and Travel Teachers' Notes Activity Technology and Buildings Teachers' Notes Activity 1 Activity 2 Newspapers Teachers' Notes Activity Written Documents Teachers' Notes Activity Photographs Teachers' Notes Activity 1 Activity 2 Then and Now Teachers' Notes Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Activity 5 Activity 6 Activity 7 Word Bank Word Game Cards Create a Local History Box Memory Game

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Teachers’ Notes

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This book has been specifically written for students in Year 2 studying History and living in Australia. The book has been divided into three clear sections.

• Significant People and Places • Sites of Significance • Changing Technology and People's Lives

Excursions Excursions are a great way to study the history of your local area. There are a number of appropriate excursions suggested in this book.

Here are some things to keep in mind when organising an excursion: • Before planning an excursion visit the venue yourself a few weeks before you take your class. This is important as it gives you the opportunity to become familiar with the layout by locating restrooms and meeting spaces. It is important to know which exhibitions are in which galleries and ask for floor plans and background information to study. Remember to pick up copies of floor plans for your students or reproduce and distribute your own copies.

• Talk with the venue's education or public programs officers well before your trip. Tell them about your learning focus and ask if visitors are allowed to carry backpacks, bring pens or pencils into the galleries, or sit on the floor while they write. The museum staff can help by notifying guards about the students' visit, and you may even want to book a tour to assist students’ learning. Staff can also make sure that the exhibition you wish to visit will be open when you bring your class.

If you are able to go behind the scenes to see how objects are collected or displayed, even better.

• If parents or volunteers will be helping on your visit, prepare them ahead of time. Let them know which parts of the venue you plan to use and familiarise them with the steps in the lesson and kinds of questions that might be asked by students. Make sure that they understand the purpose of the visit and the activities that you have planned.

Before the trip, go over the floor plan with them so they'll be somewhat familiar with how the venue is set out.

• Discuss the venue in class before you go. If students are familiar with the process ahead of time, they will be able to concentrate better on the objects and exhibitions. Once you’re at the venue, you may want to review its layout and features with your class.

Assessing Your Community's Resources Some of the activities in this book require students to examine objects from the past and present. Here are some ideas about accessing interesting objects and making the most of resources in your community:

• Take a close look around your community for places which celebrate and preserve your local community’s heritage. Nearby historical societies, local museums, historic houses, surf lifesaving clubs, cemeteries, sports pavilions, war monuments, and libraries are full of primary sources that can help reinforce your history program. All of these places preserve the past for the future by protecting the past.

• Encourage students to collect their own memorabilia from the family and local community.

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• Not every community has a large museum with extensive collections, but almost all communities have valuable resources that can inspire your students to write and tell their stories. If your budget does not allow for excursions, you can bring objects into the classroom or have students bring them in. You may also arrange to have another important community "resource" come into the classroom. Many hobbyists and collectors are happy to share their knowledge with young people. Think about whether someone in the community collects stamps or does dramatizations. Such people can often stimulate students.

Work with Other Teachers • To develop activities using community resources requires effort and time, so consider collaborating with another teacher. This way you can share the workload, as well as sharing information about community resources.

Involve Your Students • Your students can participate in the organising and planning of activities. In this way they can let you know what they would like to learn about their local community.

Sources

3. Local museums (hold articles, documents, photographs and objects).

4. Art galleries (display art and crafts from a particular era).

5. Local churches (have records dating from the earliest years of settlement).

6. Churchyards and cemeteries (have interesting historical evidence).

7. Local schools (keep records of attendance and reports).

8. Local businesses (some keep records of their products).

Inside the Home 9. It is surprising how many treasures we can find at home. Some of these include: postcards, old maps, dockets and receipts, old photographs and sketches, old newspapers, old directories, guidebooks, party invitations, letters and diaries, books and magazines, show programs, menus, and performance programs.

Many of the Teachers' Notes include a list of useful words. You may like to make cards of these words to put up around the classroom or have a list on the board for the class to refer to when they're doing their writing.

• Your students need to become little historians and find primary sources to complete many of the activities in this book. To find the sources they need, they could consider looking: Outside the Home 1. Libraries (hold books, records, letters and newspapers, which can be copied and studied).

2. Local council offices (store records, plans and maps).

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National Curriculum Links

Historical Knowledge and Understanding

ACHHK044 – The history of a significant person, building, site or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past.

ACHHK045 – The importance today of an historical site of cultural or spiritual significance, for example, a community building, a landmark, a war memorial.

ACHHK046 – The impact of changing technology on people’s lives (at home and in the ways they worked, traveled, communicated, and played in the past).

Historical Skills

ACHHS047 & ACHHS048 – Chronology, terms and concepts.

ACHHS049 – Historical questions and research.

ACHHS050 & ACHHS051 – Analysis and use of sources.

ACHHS052 – Perspectives and interpretations.

ACHHS053 & ACHHS054 – Explanation and communication.

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Significant People and Places

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Teachers' Notes The History of a Significant Person

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Focus:

• Exploring people of historical interest in the local community.

• Important Words: past, now, change, same, then.

Teaching Notes:

Possible Questions:

• Invite an Elder into the class to tell a story about their life in the local area and the changes that they have witnessed in the area. They could bring in photographs and objects to show the students. Ask the children to illustrate a part of the story and make a book for the library to share with other classes.

• If you cannot get an Elder to come into the class, organise an excursion or research other significant people's stories using the internet, newspapers and community information guides.

• When arranging to have speakers or demonstrators come into the classroom, keep in mind that they need a clear idea of what you would like them to do and how long you would like the talk/ demonstration to last. Importantly let your guests know how their presentation fits into the class's lesson. This will help them design their program to suit your needs. Get the class to make a list of questions that they can refer to. If you would like to know more about everyday life, opposite is list of possible questions to ask. (While the class is interviewing the person, they may think of other questions.)

1. When and where were you born?

2. Did you have brothers and /or sisters?

3. Where did you grow up?

4. Is the house that you grew up in still standing?

5. Did you do any jobs at home or after school?

6. What was the most exciting event in your school days?

7. Did you keep any animals?

8. How did you get to school?

9. How was food stored?

10. Where did your milk, bread and groceries come from?

11. Did you have water and electricity?

12. What has changed in the area?

13. Where did you go for your holidays?

14. Did your family have a car?

15. Did your family have a radio or TV? 16. What work did your parents do?

17. What did you like at school?

18. Can you remember any local celebrations?

19. Did you have a collection?

Ask students to thank any guests for coming in to do their presentation.

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The History of a Significant Person

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Illustrate an Elder’s story about the local area. book preview.

Indigenous Elders are significant because they are part of a long cultural tradition. Their stories are often passed on through drawings.

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Person of Historical Interest

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Focus:

• Exploring a person of historical interest in the local area.

Important Words: past, now, change, same, then.

Teaching Notes – Sheet 1:

Teaching Notes – Sheet 2:

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Ask your students to research a person of historical interest from the local community. This could be someone from their family.

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Ask the students to prepare their research questions (what they want to find out about their chosen person) on the activity sheet. They can use a variety of sources (internet, newspapers, community information guides and local knowledge) to answer their research questions. They can record the information that they have gathered on the back of their sheet or in their exercise books.

• Using the information that they have gathered, students can create a timeline for their chosen person of significance. They can decide on their own significant events.

Teaching Notes – Sheet 3: • Using the information that they have gathered, students can create a family tree for their chosen person of significance.

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Person of Historical Interest 1

This is a Ready-Ed Publications'  My seven research questions are: book preview. _ _____________________________________ Researching people of historical interest can tell us a lot about the past.

Question 1:

________________________________________________ Question 2:_ _____________________________________

________________________________________________ Question 3:_ _____________________________________

________________________________________________ Question 4:_ _____________________________________

________________________________________________ Question 5:_ _____________________________________

________________________________________________ Question 6:_ _____________________________________

________________________________________________ Question 7:_ _____________________________________

________________________________________________  Why I consider him/her of historical interest: ___________________

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Activity

Person of Historical Interest 2

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Timelines help us understand a person’s past.

Chosen Person:____________________

When I was ______________________________________

_ ________________________________________________ When I was ______________________________________

_ ________________________________________________ When I was ____________________________________

________________________________________________ When I was _ ___________________________________

_______________________________________________ When I was _ __________________________________

______________________________________________ When I was _ __________________________________

______________________________________________ When I was _ __________________________________

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Person of Historical Interest 3

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Complete the family tree of your chosen person of interest. book preview.

Family trees help us to understand a person’s past.

Chosen person:___________________ Date of birth:_______________________ Place of birth:_______________________

Parents Father:________________

Mother:________________

Date of birth:____________

Date of birth:____________

Place of birth:____________

Place of birth:____________

Grandparents Grandfather:____________

Grandfather:____________

Date of birth:____________

Date of birth:____________

Place of birth:____________

Place of birth:____________

Grandmother:_ __________

Grandmother:_ __________

Date of birth:____________

Date of birth:____________

Place of birth:____________

Place of birth:____________

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Activity

Person of Historical Interest 4

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Words in my search

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2. ________________________

7. ________________________

3. ________________________

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4. ________________________

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Cemetery Crawl

Teachers' Notes

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Focus:

• Exploring people of the past in the local community.

• Exploring events of the past in the local community.

Interesting Words: occupation, commemorative, inscription, life, headstone, tombstone, mason, Christian name, surname, church, belief, buried, death, grave, symbols, cause.

Teaching Notes:

his/her birth and death, his/her age when died, inscription which praises the person who has died or tells some information about him/her, the person’s occupation, a commemorative verse, manner of death, names of family and /or relatives and symbolic drawings.

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Organise an excursion to the local cemetery.

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Before the visit discuss how people buried in the local cemetery have more than likely lived in the local community. Cemeteries can tell us a lot therefore, about people Teaching Notes - Sheet 2: who have lived in the local community in the past.

• The students could further research the oldest person buried. Students could be Cemeteries can also tell us about events encouraged to link causes of death to past of the past in the local community. They events in the local community (epidemics, can tell us if there was a plague or natural wars, etc.). A large number of child disaster in a particular year or if people deaths could indicate unhygienic living died because of a historic event which conditions in early settlements. Students affected the local area. could also link nationality to patterns of Many cemeteries will provide tours immigration in the local community. for students, brochures and other information.

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Ask the students to take rubbings of four headstones at the local cemetery. Ask them to find headstones which include some interesting information. Students can practice taking rubbings of things in the school grounds first, using bricks and signs. You could enlarge the activity sheet to A3 size.

You could tell students about the prominent people in the cemetery, or this information may be obvious. They can research these people further.

Teaching Notes - Sheet 4: •

When back in class, give out the fourth activity sheet. Collate and display the rubbings and discuss and record findings.

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Cemetery Crawl 1

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Take four rubbings of interesting headstones. book preview.

Cemeteries are like books. They can tell us about people who lived in the past.

First Rubbing

Second Rubbing

Third Rubbing

Fourth Rubbing

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Cemetery Crawl 2

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview.  Find the oldest grave.

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.

Name:_____________________ Died:________________ Cause:_ ________________________________________ Other information:________________________________ What does it tell us about settlement in the local area? ______________________________________________ What else does it tell us about the past? ______________________________________________

 Find the grave of the youngest person buried.

Name:

Age:

Year of death:

 List three causes of death that you can see in one of the periods: 1800s-1850s, 1850s-1900s or 1900s-1950s.

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•_ ______________________________________________________

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 List some of the different nationalities of people buried in the graves.

Go to www.readyed.net  Draw some of the symbols used on the graves on the back of this sheet.

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Activity

Cemetery Crawl 3

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview.  Name three prominent people’s graves.

 Draw one of the above people's headstones in detail.

 What does the inscription tells you about him/her?

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Cemetery Crawl 4

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Use the information that you have collected to complete the table. book preview.

Cemeteries are full of mysteries and puzzles.

Solve them to reconstruct the past.

1800s-1850s

1850s-1900s

1900s-1950s

Most common surname(s) Most common Christian name(s)

Common causes of death

Most common nationality

Prominent people

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Defining Local

Teachers' Notes

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Focus:

• Understanding the term local and recognising how local areas can be defined in many ways.

Important Words: local, region, place, area, boundaries.

Teaching Notes: • Hand out the activity sheet.

• Define the term local on the board. (A particular place or definite region, restricted to the area nearby or close to where someone lives.)

• Tell students that different people can define local areas differently.

The local government divides the country into electoral zones, which can be called local areas.

Streets, freeways and transport zones divide cities and towns into local areas. A local area could be defined as the zone from which the school draws its students.

• Talk about the boundaries of the students' local areas. If they live in a built up area, the boundary may be the block around their house, or around their suburb, town or city.

• If students live in the country, their local area may be all the

land around their house or it may be the distance from their house to the nearest town. If they live on a station, island or peninsula, their local area is isolated from other areas. People decide on the boundaries of their local area for different reasons. Ask the students to complete questions one and two on their sheets.

• Tell students that Australia is made up of many boundaries and local areas and ask them what these may be. Have a class discussion and brainstorm their answers on the board. When they mention the states, territories and cities ask them to complete the remaining four questions on their sheets. They can then label other states, territories and cities in Australia.

• Explain that a person can be considered local to Australia, local to a city or town, local to their school, local to their suburb and local to their street!

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Defining Local

Activity

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A person can be local to Australia, local to their school, local to their suburb and local to their street.

Complete the Tasks 1. Mark where you live on the map with an X. 2. Define your local area_ ________________________________ ___________________________________________________ 3. Which state/territory do you live in?______________________ 4. Lightly shade this state/territory.

5. What is your capital city?_______________________________

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6. Use a pencil and a ruler to create boundaries around local areas on the map.

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Local Places

Teachers' Notes

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Focus:

• Understanding that local places are significant.

• Understanding that over time, we have lost touch with the significance of places.

Teaching Notes: • Tell the students that often, places in their local area have been named for a reason. The names of places can help us understand their significance.

Brainstorm some local place names on the board which fit into the following four categories: indigenous, tribute, transplanted and official.

• Discuss their individual meanings.

• Ask the students to think of more place names in their local area and sort them into categories on their sheet.

• Transplanted names - names chosen by explorers and settlers to remind them of "the home country", such as New South Wales. It was a way of immortalizing them.

• Official names – are common for electoral districts and shires. These names often attempt to recognise important historical/political/religious people or events connected to local areas.

• Ask students to pick one of the places on their sheet and research it further.

Useful Website:

Categories: • Indigenous names - like Wagga Wagga and Mylup. If the students look at a map of their local area they will probably find that lots of place names are indigenous.

www.nla.gov.au/pathways/jnls/ newsite/view/263.html is a great website for place names and their meanings.

• Tribute names - places that are named after people. It was common for explorers to name places after their founders or social or political people of the time. Some places are also named after famous Australians.

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Local Places

Activity

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Under the headings write some places that are local to you. book Indigenous Names preview.

Tribute Names Places are often significant.

Transplanted Names

Official Names

My Chosen Place:________________________________ Significance:___________________________________ ____________________________________________

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Teachers' Notes

A Place of Historical Interest

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Focus:

• Identifying a local place of historical interest.

Interesting Words: identify, locate, interest, brochure, source, evidence,

research.

Teaching Notes: • Pin up a map of the local community area using small flags or coloured pins.

• Brainstorm with the class the main points of historical interest in your local area. Mark churches, heritage buildings, monuments, museums, National Trust homes, dams/ reservoirs, botanical gardens, war memorials, wharfs and so forth.

one page of information on it by completing the activity sheet. Point out that historical inquiry is not only about answering the questions what and when, but also asking why, how, which and who questions.

• Collate all the pages to create a class brochure.

• As a class collect information on these local points of interest and pin it up next to your map so that it becomes an information board.

This could include photographs, pamphlets and brochures.

• Pair the students and ask them to pick one local place of historical interest. Ask them to research the significance of the place and create

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A Place of Historical Interest

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' My place of interest is _____________________________ book preview. ď ą Draw a map of where your place of interest is located in your 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.

local area.

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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ď ą Compare! Use the back of the sheet to paste or draw an old and recent picture of your place of interest.

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Teachers' Notes Places of Interest in Australia

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Focus:

• Understanding that there are places of historical interest all over Australia and that the students can be classed as being local to Australia.

Teaching Notes: •

Brainstorm with the class places of historical interest in Australia.

• Discuss where these places are in Australia and why these places are of historical significance. For example: Lake Mungo in New South Wales is important because it tells us about when and how the traditional owners of Australia lived. Remains of their lives (clay-pans, camp hearths, remnants of food and skeletons) can still be found there. It is such an important site that it has been listed as a World Heritage Site.

• Ask students to research some more historical places in Australia and use symbols to show where they are located on the map on their activity sheets.

• Students must create a key to explain their symbols.

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Places of Interest in Australia

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There are many places of historical interest in Australia.

Key

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Historical Sites

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Focus:

• Identifying historical sites of cultural or spiritual significance in the local area.

Teaching Notes - Sheet 1: • On the board make a list of as many local sites that students can think of that have heritage, spiritual or cultural value for present generations. (Example: a war memorial helps us to understand past conflicts and the Australians who fought to protect our country. Rock shelters and midden sites can help us to understand how and when the first Australians lived: what they ate, how they hunted, what they made, etc.)

• Ask the students to complete the activity sheet.

Teaching Notes – Sheet 2: • Ask students to choose one local site that they would like to research further.

Encourage them to use a range of resources to complete the activity sheet on their chosen site.

Teaching Notes – Sheet 3: • Discuss with the students what ANZAC stands for. (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.) They can record this on their sheets.

• Ask them when ANZAC Day is. (25th April first celebrated in 1916.)

• Ask students who we remember on ANZAC Day. (Today we remember all soldiers who have fought in all wars. ANZAC Day was first created to remember those who fought in World War I. Tell them that Australians and New Zealanders were sent to Gallipoli in 1915 to capture the Galliopli peninsula, an area almost completely

surrounded by water so that they could secure a point from which to capture Constantinople and knock the Turkish out of the war. They landed in Gallipoli on 25th April and fought the Ottoman Turkish army.

The fighting lasted for eight months and over 8,000 Australians were killed.) Ask students to create a stamp based on some of this information.

• Locate your nearest ANZAC or other war memorial. Try to visit it if possible and discuss its significance.

Useful Website: www.anzacday.org.au/interactives/ childhood puzzles/main.html. This website has interactive ‘click and drag’ puzzles displaying images relating to ANZAC Day.

Teaching Notes – Sheet 4: • Ask the students to create a poster advertising a local site(s) to the public. The poster should encourage people to visit the site by highlighting its importance to people today.

Extension Activities: • Try to visit as many local sites as possible, such as: memorials, museums, rock shelters, creeks, mountains, etc.

• You could ask an ANZAC or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person to come in and talk to the students.

• Look at ANZAC or indigenous artefacts, and ask the students to tell you what these artefacts tell us about the past.

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Historical Sites 1

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą List five local sites of heritage, spiritual or cultural significance. book preview.

Why it is important: There will be sites in your local area of heritage, spiritual or cultural importance.

Name of Site: _ ____________________

Why it is important: Name of Site: _ ____________________

Why it is important: Name of Site: _ ____________________

Why it is important: Name of Site: _ ____________________

Why it is important: Name of Site:

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Historical Sites 2

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Paste a photograph or draw a picture of your chosen local site. book preview.

Local sites can tell us about the history of a local area.

Name of site:____________________________________

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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4. What is being done to protect this site?

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Historical Sites 3

This is a Ready-Ed Publications'  What does ANZAC stand for?

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War memorials are important to us today.

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 Create a stamp to celebrate ANZAC Day.

Draw a picture.  Where is your local war memorial?

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Historical Site 4

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Encourage people to visit the site. book preview.

Many people do not realise the importance of sites.

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Indigenous Places

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Focus:

• Understanding the significance of local indigenous sites, places and landscapes.

Teaching Notes - Sheet 1:

Teaching Notes – Sheet 3:

• List with the students indigenous sites, places and landscapes of historical interest in the local community.

• Look through an atlas as a class and locate and list important indigenous sites, places and landscapes in your state and in Australia.

Teaching Notes – Sheet 2:

Additional Information:

• Ask students to choose one local indigenous site, place or landscape to research further. They can do this using the internet, newspapers, community information guides or local knowledge. Alternatively you could research one together as a class.

• To find indigenous places and their meanings in your local area contact your AEO at school or the indigenous contact person within your local council or community.

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Indigenous Places 1

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą List some local indigenous sites that are significant to people today. book preview.

There are many indigenous sites, places and landscapes in Australia.

List of local indigenous sites:

____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ď ą List some local indigenous places and landscapes that are significant to people today.

List of local indigenous places and landscapes: ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________

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Activity

Indigenous Places 2

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Choose one indigenous site, place or landscape to research. book preview.

There are many indigenous sites, places and landscapes in Australia.

Indigenous site/place/landscape: _________________

_________________________________________ Where it is located: __________________________ _________________________________________ Reasons for its location:_______________________ _________________________________________ Why it is a special place:_ ______________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________

Draw your chosen site/place/landscape.

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Indigenous Places 3

This isa look a through Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Have an atlas and find some important indigenous sites, places and landscapes in your state. book preview.

My state is: ___________________________ There are many indigenous sites, places and landscapes in Australia.

Indigenous sites/places/landscapes in my state are:

____________________ ____________________ ____________________

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ď ą Place some well-known indigenous places on the map of Australia.

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Teachers' Notes

Technology and Travel

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Focus:

• Understanding that technology has changed the way that we travel.

Teaching Notes: • Ask students how people travelled before cars, planes or trains were invented. From there, try to trace the changes that have occurred in methods of transportation because of the changes in technology.

Background Information: • In the 1850s, camels replaced horses and became the main method of transportation because they were more suited to the Australian climate.

You could look at pictures of camels and Australian cameleers from this time and read out some cameleer diary entries to the students. Camels were taken over by cars, trains and planes. In 1854 Australia's first trains began operating. First there were steam trains, then diesel locomotives, then electric trains. In 1910 planes were introduced.

Extension Activity: • Discuss how technology has also changed the way we communicate when we travel (email, Twitter, Facebook, travel blogs, etc.).

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Technology and Travel

Activity

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Complete the flow chart to show how transport has changed because of changes in technology. The earliest form of transport book preview. should go in box 1.

Technology has changed the way that we travel.

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Why is the picture of Ned Kelly funny? How did he travel? _

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Technology and Buildings

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Focus:

• Understanding that changes in technology have altered the buildings in which we live and work.

Important Words: style, architecture, architect, influence.

Teaching Notes: • Discuss how we can tell that houses/ buildings are old. Discuss what houses/buildings were made of in the past. As a class, you could collect examples of different materials: wood, brick, etc.

• Discuss structural features of old houses that identify them as belonging to the past (Victorian houses for example had no airconditioning so they had wide verandahs and corridors).

• Also discuss furnishings in houses which identify them as old or new.

(Old and new kettles and irons, etc.)

• Define the word ‘preserving’. Discuss what could be done to preserve an old house/building (make sure it is not knocked down, nothing is built too close to it which would damage it, nothing is too drastically altered or changed, so it appears in its original form).

• Discuss why old houses and buildings are worth preserving.

(Because they tell us about the past by tracing the changes that have occurred in technology as time has passed. They are our history. They give us information about how people lived and what materials were available to them. Old historical buildings attract tourists because of these reasons.)

• Hand out both activity sheets. Find an old building or house or part of the school to complete the tasks.

Extension Activities: • Students could research some heritage-listed buildings in the local area.

• Students could make a diorama of an old house or building.

• Students could collect photographs/ illustrations of old houses and buildings and create a sequence chart.

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Activity

Technology and Buildings 1

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Sketch your building in the space below. book preview.

Technology has changed the buildings in which we live and work.

Name/type of building:______________________ Location:_________________________________ Date of building:_ _________________________ How do you know this?______________________ _______________________________________ Style?___________________________________ What is the roof made of? _________________________

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Technology and Buildings 2

This is a Ready-Ed Publications'  How is this building similar to, or different from a new building?

Similar book preview.Different Technology has changed the buildings in which we live and work.

 What does this house tell us about the past?

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 Why do you think it should be preserved?

________________________________________________________

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 What can be done to ensure that it is preserved?

________________________________________________________

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Newspapers

Teachers' Notes

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Focus:

• Understanding how newspapers can tell us about changes in technology.

Interesting Words: headlines, topic, article, reporter.

Teaching Notes:

Extension Activities:

• Throughout our history, writing has been a powerful force. By writing, an author is able to share with his/her readers not only his/her own ideas and memories, but also convey to us information about the time and place in which he/she lived. Old articles can reveal how changing technology has impacted on our lives.

• Organise a visit to the local community news and ask them to talk to the students about what they write about and the process of writing and printing.

Discuss the importance of local news.

• Collate newspaper articles from the class and create a school newspaper to hand out to others in the school community.

• Take the class to the local library/ museum to find old newspaper stories. Bear in mind that newspaper publishers and state libraries have a copy of every newspaper issue that they have ever published.

• Ask each student to choose an article that records how people travelled, communicated or played in the past, before the rapid changes in technology.

• Ask your students to use their chosen article to complete the activity sheet.

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Activity

Newspapers

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Use your article to complete the task. book preview.

Newspapers can help us to trace changes in technology.

Name of newspaper:________________________________

Date of article:_____________________ Cost:__________ Headline: ________________________________________ Reporter: _______________________________________ Topic of article: __________________________________ What does it tell you about how people lived in the past? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________

ď ą Draw one or more of the visuals, or create your own to go with the story.

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Teachers' Notes

Written Documents

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Focus:

• Understanding that written documents can tell us about changes in technology.

Important Words: issued, copies, originals, recreate, loss, damage, care, old, new, stored, tell, document, information.

Teaching Notes: • There are many ways in which the past can be celebrated and preserved. Descriptions, documents, books and objects, (written in and from earlier times) can all celebrate and preserve the past. They can give us an insight into how people's lives and lifestyles have changed because of technology.

• Ask your class to bring in written documents that they may have at home to display.

They may not be able to bring in the originals but they could bring in copies. Originals must be cared for to prevent loss or damage. The written document must relate to the local area.

• Discuss as a class what the documents say about changes in technology.

• Brainstorm as a class, examples of documents and discuss what they tell us about the changes in technology. (Documents can give us information about how people travelled or communicated. Old telegrams can be contrasted with emails and coach tickets can be compared to flight tickets.)

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Activity

Written Documents

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Recreate the document. book preview.

Documents can record how technology has affected the way we live.

ď ą Answer the questions on your written document.

How old is it?_____________________________________ Are there any names or signatures on it?_______________ Are there any dates?_______________________________ Where was it issued?_______________________________ What does the document tell you about technology? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________

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Photographs

Teachers' Notes

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Focus:

• Understanding that photographs can help us to understand changes in technology over several generations.

Important Words: change, now, then, different, same, tell, happen, front, back, today, yesterday, copy, original.

Teaching Notes - Sheet 1:

Teaching Notes - Sheet 2:

• Discuss with your class how a lot of information and detail can be found in photographs.

• Discuss how the photographs help us understand the changes that have occurred because of technology.

• Discuss where old photographs can be found (at home, in books, in old newspapers, amongst school records).

• Ask the class to bring in a photograph that they have at home of something that is no longer used because it has been replaced. (Example: an old toy, an old kettle, etc.)

They can fill out the activity sheet.

• Before the students paste their photographs on to their sheets, make a photocopy of each photograph and pin them up to make a class photoboard.

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Activity

Photographs 1

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Paste your photograph here: book preview.

Photographs can record changes in technology over several generations.

Answer the Questions 1. What can you see in the photograph? _____________________________________________________ 2. How do you know that the object in the photograph is old? _____________________________________________________ 3. What was the object used for? _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Draw the object that has replaced the one in the photograph.

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Photographs 2

Activity

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Photographs can record the changes in technology over several generations.

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 Use the pictures to answer the questions.

1. Date the two pictures as best you can.

2. Is there anything the same in the pictures? _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ 3. List six main differences: • _ ____________________________________________________ • _ ____________________________________________________ • _ ____________________________________________________ • _ ____________________________________________________

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Then and Now

Teachers' Notes

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Focus:

• Understanding the impact that changing technology has had on people's lives (at home, at work and in the way they travel, communicate and play).

Important Words: generation, technology, impact, communication.

Teaching Notes - Sheet 1: • Discuss with students how the early timekeeping devices rely on no or very little technology.

Teaching Notes - Sheet 2: • Discuss how changes in technology have allowed us to be more mobile and travel longer distances more quickly.

Teaching Notes - Sheet 3: • Look at some of the traditional toys that indigenous children used to play and learn which depended on very little technology, such as string games which helped them remember stories that they were told.

Teaching Notes - Sheet 4:

devices which have changed communication. Technology has also produced faster and more efficient cars which has changed the way we travel.

• Examine how many technological goods are made offshore today compared to the time when their grandparents were young.

Teaching Notes - Sheet 6: • Students could ask their parents or grandparents to help them with the second task.

Teaching Notes - Sheet 7: • As an extension activity students could discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each item.

• Discuss how changes in technology have resulted in smaller phones and music

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Then and Now

Teachers' Notes

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Extension Activities:

• Students can make models of old and new items or bring an item in for display.

• Another idea is to set up a class exhibition. This will take some time and organisation but is a rewarding exercise. Here are some pointers: • Ask students to bring in an old or a new item to display in the class exhibition.

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Once all of the items have been brought into class, ask students to help classify them by sorting them into different groups, according to, for example, features, historical period, material, size, etc.

• When displaying the items, think about how best to showcase them to avoid valuable items being damaged. Documents printed on poor quality paper can turn yellow, fade, go brittle and tear. Don't put rubber bands around these types of documents and display them in flip albums made of polypropylene. Do not put documents in very bright light. Sometimes copies of very fragile documents can be made and handled freely. Coins should be handled carefully. Too much handling will tarnish surfaces so they should be held by the edges. They could be displayed in albums. Some items could be displayed behind glass cabinets.

• Lastly, invite your students to give the exhibition a name. You will need a label for your exhibition. Get them to think of the colours that they will use in the exhibition title label. They may like to promote the exhibition by creating posters and invitations to its opening. Invite parents and • Think about where the exhibition will people from the school community be located and who will look after it. and get someone to do an opening.

• Each student should then label their item. Their label should date and identify the item and include details about its function, owner, what it is made of and any other further information.

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Activity

Then and Now 1

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Name the timekeeping devices. book preview.

Timekeeping devices measure time.

The devices that we use today are different from those used years ago.

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ď ą Cut out the pictures and paste them on a blank piece of paper in the order that you think they were invented.

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Activity

Then and Now 2

This Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Look is at thea artefacts from the past below. Label each artefact and say how it was used and what has replaced it. Think about why the replacements are better suitedpreview. to our lives today. book The items that we use today are different from those used in the past.

Name:_ ___________________

Name:_ ___________________

Use:______________________

Use:______________________

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Replacement:______________

Replacement:______________

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Name:_ ___________________

Name:_ ___________________

Use:______________________

Use:______________________

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Replacement:______________

Replacement:______________

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Then and Now 3

Activity

This is a Ready-Ed Publications'  Look at the pictures below and tick one of the boxes underneath. book preview.

Colour all the toys that you play with.

Toys that you play with today are very different from the toys that children played with in the past.

 Past  Present

 Past  Present

 Past  Present

 Past  Present

 Past  Present

 Past  Present

 Past  Present

 Past  Present

 Draw some traditional toys used for playing and learning by indigenous children.

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Activity

Then and Now 4

This is a Ready-Ed Publications'  Number each set of pictures below in order (one being the oldest and four being the newest). preview. book Many objects are no longer used because of changes in technology.

 Choose two old items and two new items.

Where do you think these items were and are made?

________________________________________________ ________________________________________________

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Activity

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Draw things that use electricity in the house below. book preview.

Technology has changed the way we live.

Homes in the past did not have electricity.

Bedroom

Bathroom

Office

Kitchen

Laundry

Ask yourto parents if you can go for one night (or for a few Go www.readyed.net hours) without using anything electrical, and experience how people used to live in the past!

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Then and Now 6

Activity

This is a Ready-Ed Publications' ď ą Colour all the things that use electricity in the picture below. book preview.

Technology has changed the interiors of homes.

What room is this?

ď ą Draw items that people used in their homes before electricity.

For Light

For Heat

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Activity

Then and Now 7

This islinesatoReady-Ed Publications' ď ą Draw match the old and new household objects. book preview.

Technology has changed the things that we use in our homes.

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Word Bank ď ą Use these words to create a snap game with the word game cards on the next page. Check words that you do not know.

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Local places

Technology

Landscapes

Local people

Family

Collection

Local community

Inscription

Generation

Local area

Primary documents

Travel

Date

Oral history

Architecture

Research

Indigenous

Houses

Materials

Photographs

Transport

History

Written documents

Preserve

Owner

Location

Original

Museum

Evidence

Telegrams

Tombstone

Then and now

Gallery

Cemetery

Display

Places of interest

Electricity

Australia

Artefact

Map

Historical sites

Invention

Heritage

ANZAC

Historical interest

Legend

Spiritual value

Communication

Document

Resource

Mobile

Past

Cultural value

Efficient

Ancestry

War memorial

Elder

Grandparents

Poster

Key

Era

Protect

Object

Rubbings

Timeline

State

Style

Newspaper

Territory

Interview

Present

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Word Game Cards

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Activity

Create a Local History Box

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My

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Local Area 4 1. Draw an important local site/place.

2. Write the name of a local person of historical interest.

3. Draw your local war memorial.

4. Draw an old and/ or new toy.

5. Write three things that you like about your local area.

Once you have decorated your box…

• Cut out the box and fold tabs along the dashed lines.

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• Glue the sides together to create a box about your state!

Another Idea!

• You could store an object in the box to create a time capsule to be opened at a specific time.

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Memory Game In pairs, cut out the cards and turn them face down. Take turns turning each card over to create a pair. You can create your own cards to add to these.

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