Connections
Correlations
Comparisons
Contrasts
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Separate
• Clear delineation
of programs
• More focus on
the overviews
and what they
can offer
• Easier for Scopes
and Sequences
Integrate
• Fewer programs
to write
• More seamless
transition
between topics
• Greater
understanding of
the ‘big picture’
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Out of Africa
Egypt
Greece
Rome
Emergence
China
India
Features
Some Ideas…
Bradshaw Foundation – Journey of Life
Smithsonian Institute
Flowcharts
http://www.flowofhistory.com/u
nits
Students look at examples, and
then create their own – use
Word or Powerpoint
- Money
- Art
- Law
Google Maps/Earth
Look at the
geographies of all the
ancient civilisations,
and compare and
contrast
Explore Museums
Use
https://www.britishm
useum.org/explore/hi
ghlights/
…to explore a time
period, a culture, a
material
The Metropolitan
Museum of Art is also
great
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End of Rome/Rise of Religions
Vikings
Medieval Europe/Shogun Japan
Mongol Expansion
Polynesian Expansion
Feudalism/Trade Routes/Exploration/Contact/Religion
Renaissance
Angkor
Ottoman Empire
Contact
Black Death
Emergence of Ideas
Fake It - Empathy
Create a series of fake tweets to
sum up an historical event. Have
each student take on a different
character to show a range of
perspectives. Eg the Viking
expeditions, the spread of
Christianity
Also:
http://faketweetbuilder.com/ Fakebook:
http://www.classtools.net/FB/h
ome-page
And texting:
http://www.iphonetextgenerato
r.com/
Pin It – Use Pinterest to visually content curate a comparison and
contrast Japanese & Medieval Feudalism… How did two such
different societies develop similar social systems at the same time?
Using Google Earth…
again
Map journeys, highlight
points of any cultural
expansion and overlay
them with historical
maps
http://sites.duke.edu/tlg
e/2009/11/19/teachinghistory-with-googleearth/
Google Cultural Institute
Accesses art collections around the world. It
automatically cites the provenance of the source.
Students can create their own gallery on the
development of art & perspective through the
Renaissance
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Industrial Revolution
Movement of Peoples
Progressive Ideas
Imperialism
Asia & the World
Making a Nation
Australians at War
Inter-War Years
Blendspace
https://www.blendspace.com/
Assign students different aspects of a particular topic eg
Movement of Peoples (emigration, slavery, convicts) and
have them construct a shared space about their experience
Get Some Personality
http://historysheroes.e2bn.org
/
Students choose a personality
to explore – many from this era
(but others too)
As this is where the ideas of
human rights begins to develop
in the Western World, it’s good
to see the impact.
Can discuss as a class what
constitutes a hero or villain
What in the Dickens…?
Have students read selected
passages from Dickens’
novels.
Get them to research places,
occupations, photos, objects
as a way to understand
industrial London
App: Dickens Trails
http://charlesdickenspage.co
m/dickens_london.html
Instagram It…
Get students thinking like
historical personalities –
have them do selfies of
famous people and their
ideas at important
moments. Have class
comment on each others.
http://histagrams.com/
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Cold War & Beyond
Peacekeeping
Rights & Freedoms
The Environment
Migration Experiences
Popular Culture
Technology, Health, Sustainability
School Developed
Migrant Experiences
http://migrationsmap.net/
Students can compare and
contrast countries’
immigration and emigration
rates and attempt to account As a follow up play
http://www.playagainstallod
for it.
ds.ca/
Get students to reflect on
their experiences: I used to
think… but now I think….
Going Green
http://www.environmentalhistory.org/
Use the information from this site to track environmental
issues across time and place. Use a timeline tool such as
www.myhistro.com
Infograph it
There are a
number of
inforgraphic
tools online, e.g.
Infogr.am
Get students to
look at longevity
in a country
over time and
create an
infograph
Toy With Timelines
http://designroyale.com.au/clients/abc/human-odyssey/#/home
Have students compare and contrast various civilisations at different
points in time, or a discussion around the various people from
contemporary times and different places.
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