Australian Curriculum History – Quizzes – Year 3 digital unit

Description

This is a 40-page ebook from the Australian Curriculum History series:

Take a trip through history and learn how the past has helped shape today, with this engaging, content-packed seven-book series covering the Historical knowledge and understanding strand for each year level. Students will be enthralled learning about the first circumnavigation of the globe, Australia’s first people, migrants who have crossed the sea for a new life, and much more.

The impact of changing technology on people’s lives (at home and in the way they worked, travelled, communicated, and played in the past (ACHHK046)
Sequence familiar objects and events (ACHHS047)
Distinguish between past, present and future (ACHHS048)
Pose questions about the past using sources provided (ACHHS049)
Explore a range of sources about the past (ACHHS050)
Identify and compare features of objects from the past and present (ACHHS051)
Explore a point of view (ACHHS052)
Develop a narrative about the past (ACHHS053)
Use a range of communication forms (Oral, graphic, written, role play) and digital technologies (ACHHS054)

Elaborations

How technology has shaped the way children play
Identifying how the same toy or game has changed over time
Understanding how traditional toys and games of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children taught them about aspects of their culture
Identifying how forms of transport have changed over time
Identifying ways forms of communication have changed over time and shaped out lives
Identifying ways radio and TV has changed over time and shaped our lives
Identifying how technology has changed the way we complete household chores

Key inquiry questions

What aspects of the past can you see today? What do they tell us?
What remains of the past are important to the local community? Why?
How have changes in technology shaped our daily life?

Historical concepts

Continuity and change
Cause and effect
Significance
Perspectives
Empathy

Student activity pages which consist of:

a stimulus text to inform students about the theme and to promote discussion
an activity page related directly to the text but requiring research, evaluative comprehension and application of historical skills
an additional activity page which may be either a continuation of the previous page or an extension activity related to the topic but not directly related to the text
a fact file on each of the two activity pages that provides an interesting or unusual fact related to the topic

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