History Extension
This assessment focused on the History Extension course. I was required to select one of the case studies and a) Prepare a presentation to introduce the areas of debate associated to this case study to a HSC class (and present it to my tutorial group). This presentation had to provide an overview of the areas [...]
Sources lesson: WW1 Women on the British Homefront
This was a lesson that started life as an assignment but was adapted to be used with a G&T year 10 class during my casual block in term 4. The assignment required me to put together a lesson, resources and assessment task to follow on from a hypothetical excursion to the Australian History Museum. Lesson [...]
It’s Time
For my supervised lesson this week, I am looking at various sources that tell us about Gough Whitlam. I just came across this video – his election campaign ad! I suspect it will be stuck in my head for the rest of the week.
Bayeux Tapestry
I’m currently putting together a lesson on the Bayeux Tapestry for year 8, and am amazed at how many fantastic resources are out there freely available! So far I’ve delved into the below, and found them to be particularly useful: Hands on History: The Normans Museum of Reading Woodlands Junior School BBC UK Battle of [...]
Vikings – Ships & Weapons
The day after the introductory lesson I saw my year 8s again. This time it was all about Viking ships and weapons. I adapted a worksheet based on the support materials on the National Maritime Museum site and this site. I won’t post the worksheet for copyright reasons, and it’s easy enough to throw one [...]
Intro to the Vikings lesson
During my week block last week I had 4 x60 minute lessons with year 8. They have been doing geography all year and have just switched over to history. They’d had 2 lessons with my master teacher getting them back into it, and then were handed over to me. We were only looking at the [...]
The Aztecs
To end my prac for the year, I finished off with two lessons on the Aztecs. I really enjoyed putting these lessons together and teaching them, and they were the best experiences I have had with the class yet. I heavily used Retroactive 1, World History, 3rd Edition for these lessons on the Aztecs (earlier [...]
Contact & Colonisation: Introduction
The next lesson I was given to teach for prac was an introduction to contact and colonisation. The class are going to spend the term looking at both the Aztecs and Australian Aborigines, and this class was an introduction to the concepts. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to play the bingo game I prepared, [...]
ICT and History
It’s funny – I’m a tech nerd. I love ICT. So, you’d think an assignment where I have to write about incorporating ICT into lessons I’d nail it…. but nope. The biggest problem I had with writing this paper was the fact that there are only so many ways you can say ‘yes, it’s easy [...]
Medieval crime & punishment part 2
2 days after the disastrous lesson with year 7, I was back for more. After some seating changes, we launched in – and this lesson went beautifully. I was very happy, the master teacher was happy, and most of the kids were happy (the ones that were kept back at the end weren’t, but there [...]