History
Concepts for developing understanding
The content in the history sub-strand provides opportunities for students to develop historical understanding through key concepts including sources, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathy and significance. The Year 3 curriculum provides a study of identity and diversity in their local community and beyond, past and present. Students develop understandings about the heritage of their local area (sources, continuity and change), including the importance of Country/Place to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples (significance, perspectives, empathy), and how and why their community has changed (continuity and change, cause and effect). Students explore the historical features and diversity of their community as represented in individuals and their contributions, symbols and emblems of significance (significance) and the different celebrations and commemorations, locally and in other places around the world (significance, perspectives, empathy).
Inquiry Questions
- Who lived here first and how do we know?
- How has our community changed? What features have been lost and what features have been retained?
- What is the nature of the contribution made by different groups and individuals in the community?
- How and why do people choose to remember significant events of the past?
(source: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au)
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Remembrance Day Poster Template
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Printable Easter Decorations and Poster Set
Decorate your classroom with this Easter decoration pack.
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Lunar New Year Word Wall Vocabulary
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NAIDOC Week 2022 Find-a-Word – Lower Years
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Christmas Tree Ornament - Kangaroo
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Christmas Tree Ornament - Koala
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Christmas Tree Ornament - Star
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NAIDOC 2021 – Heal Country! - Word Search (Middle Years)
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