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The Jacaranda Retroactive NSW Ac series is designed to support the huge variety and range of approaches and styles for successfully teaching history, providing a rich set of tools and activities that every teacher can use to bring history to life in their own way.
A rich suite of stunning new images, videos, interactivities – to spark students’ curiosity and imagination.
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A diverse range of activities to help teachers teach history their way and give teachers the best possible experience regardless of technology constraints and platform choices.
Activities organised from lower to higher levels of complexity plus challenge opportunities for those thirsting for more.
With learnON, Jacaranda’s powerful online platform, teachers can unlock deep insights into student and cohort performance.
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Topic 1: Investigating the ancient past Topic overview 1: The ancient world Topic 2a: Ancient Egypt Topic 2b: Ancient Greece Topic 2c: Ancient Rome Topic 3a: Ancient India Topic 3b: Early Imperial China Topic overview 2: The ancient to the modern world Topic 4a: The Vikings Topic 4b: Medieval Europe Topic 4c: The Ottoman Empire Topic 4d: Renaissance Italy Topic 5a: The Angkor/Khmer empire Topic 5b: Japan under the Shoguns Topic 5c: The Polynesian expansion across the Pacific Topic 6a: Mongol expansion Topic 6b: The Black Death in Asia, Europe and Africa Topic 6c: The Spanish conquest of the Americas Topic 6d: Aboriginal and indigenous peoples, colonisation and contact history
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Topic overview 1: The making of the modern world Topic 1a: The Industrial Revolution Topic 1b: Movement of peoples Topic 1c: Progressive ideas and movements Topic 2a: Making a nation Topic 2b: China and the world Topic 3a: World War I Topic 3b: World War II Topic overview 2: The modern world and Australia Topic 4a: Rights and freedoms Topic 5a: Popular culture Topic 5b: The environment movement Topic 5c: Migration experiences Topic 6a: The Holocaust Topic 6b: Australia in the Vietnam War era
Jarrod Hall from St. Dominic’s College shares how the Jacaranda Retroactive NSW Ac series has supported his teaching, simplified assigning student work, saved time marking and reviewing work and offered a range of engaging multimedia to support learning.
Maureen has taught history for over 30 years, including periods as department Head at Kambala, Rose Bay and Rosebank College, Five Dock. She has contributed to syllabus writing for the NSW Board of Studies and taught within the Teacher Education Program at Macquarie University.
Ian taught history for 30 years, including 25 years as a head teacher. He is a co-author of Retroactive 1 ; Retroactive 2 ; Retrospective: Year 11 Modern History and Medieval Quest for the New South Wales syllabuses; and the Retroactive Australian Curriculum for History 7–10 series. Ian has also contributed to the Macquarie Study Dictionary and has published journal articles, chapters in books and online articles on a range of history and education topics.
Anne has taught History and English for over 30 years, including two years in Papua New Guinea, and is currently at Freshwater Senior Campus. She has worked on secondment to Training and Development for the Department of Education.
Kate has taught History for over 30 years, with teaching qualifi cations from the University of Sydney and Sydney Teachers’ College. She has taught in high schools in Australia and Northern Ireland, including St Mary’s Cathedral College, Sydney.
Brian was a Head of History in Queensland secondary schools before joining the Education faculty at QUT in Brisbane, where he taught History, History curriculum and SOSE curriculum. He subsequently worked for the National Centre for History Education and is now an independent consultant. Brian has written syllabus and curriculum documents at state and national levels and was an adviser in the development of the Australian Curriculum: History.
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