Personal & Family History Teaching Resources
A collection of teaching resources to assist you in teaching your students about their personal and family history. Use these posters, worksheets, unit and lesson plans, vocabulary word walls and activities to comprehensively look at individual personal and family histories. Resources available cover topics titled Daily Life: Then and Now, Celebrations Around the World and All About Family.
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Build a Family Tree – Template
A versatile resource to use when exploring family history with your students.
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All About My Family Mini Booklet
A template for students to complete all about their family.
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My Family Portrait Templates
Encourage your students to explore their identity through these Family Portrait Worksheets Templates.
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Passport To My Heritage Project Template
Celebrate your students’ diverse cultural heritages with a printable Heritage Project Poster Template.
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All About My Family - Family Tree Project
Use a printable set of family tree templates and graphic organizers to help you students learn about their families.
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Biography Timeline Template
Download this biography timeline template to help students organise key life events for a person's biography with a clear, structured format.
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My Personal Timeline - Project Template
Apply knowledge of chronological order while students create a personal timeline highlighting important milestones.
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Families Come in All Shapes and Sizes - Classroom Display
Create a vibrant classroom display of your students’ families with this easy to implement resource.
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Exploring Yesterday and Today – History Word Wall Vocabulary
27 exploring yesterday and today vocabulary cards.
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Celebrating Family Ties - Template
Have students reflect on immigration to Australia while researching their own family ancestry.
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Learning About the Past PowerPoint
Use this 15-slide editable PowerPoint template when introducing younger students to historical sources.
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A Very Special Memory – Worksheet
Explore the role that photographs play in communicating the stories of our past with this simple worksheet.
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A Very Special Object – Worksheet
Explore the role that objects play in communicating the stories of our past with this simple worksheet.
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Being Careful with a New Baby Poster
A poster explaining to students how to behave around a new baby.
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New Baby Poster
A poster encouraging students to talk about their feelings when there is a new baby in the family.
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Exploring My Local Community - History Word Wall Vocabulary
20 vocabulary cards about exploring the local community.
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A Comparison of Daily Life - Assessment Task
An open-ended assessment task for students to demonstrate their understanding of how toys, modes of transport and communication devices and their uses have changed over time.
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Daily Life - Then and Now Unit Plan
This History unit covers a range of concepts relating to how daily life of the present is different from the past and how it could change in the future.
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Communicating Through Time
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explain how communication devices have changed over time.
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Toys From the Past
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare toys from the past with the present.
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Family Life - Then and Now
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare daily family life from the past with the present.
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Why Celebrate?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how and why people celebrate.
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Let's Communicate!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explain how we communicate with others.
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Toys From Today
A 60 minute lesson in which students will describe the features of a present day toy.
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Community Celebrations
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify how and why communities celebrate.
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Family Celebrations
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify how and why families celebrate.
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A Comparison of Daily Life - Assessment Task
An inquiry-based assessment task in which students will demonstrate how their world is different from the past and how it might change in the future.
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Transport - Then and Now
A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare past and present transport and describe how it has changed over time.
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A Life with Transport
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify different types of modern transport and how they are used.
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Identifying and Classifying Toys
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify an everyday object as a toy and describe how it is used in daily life.
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