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Exploring My Local Community - History Word Wall Vocabulary
20 vocabulary cards about exploring the local community.
Display and use these vocabulary cards to immerse your students in the content specific vocabulary when exploring your local community.
There is a blank sheet provided at the end for any extra words that your students may want to add.
Words include:
accurate, architecture, artefact scatter, contact sites, cultural sites, dwellings, fish trap, features, historical narrative, language group, local community, midden, now, past, point of view, site, spiritual sites, then, today, weir
Exploring My Local Community - History Vocabulary
accurate | architecture | artefact scatter |
contact sites | cultural sites | dwellings |
fish trap | features | historical narrative |
language group | local community | midden |
now | past | point of view |
site | spiritual sites | then |
today | weir |
NSW Curriculum alignment
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCHHC057
Identify the significance of a person and/or place in the local community
- VCHHC057
Identify the significance of a person and/or place in the local community
- VCHHC057
Identify the significance of a person and/or place in the local community
- VCHHK063
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
- VCHHK063
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
- VCHHK063
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
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACHASSK011
Who the people in their family are, where they were born and raised and how they are related to each other
- ACHASSK045
The importance today of a historical site of cultural or spiritual significance in the local area, and why it should be preserved
- ACHASSK044
The history of a significant person, building, site and/or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past

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