The Jacaranda Retroactive NSW Ac series has been 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 history teacher can use to bring history to life.
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Why NSW History teachers trust Jacaranda:
Let Jarrod Hall, from St. Dominic’s College, share with you how the Jacaranda Retroactive NSW Ac series has supported his teaching, simplified assigning student work, saved time marking and reviewing work and has a range of engaging multimedia to support learning.
Bringing history to life
A rich suite of stunning new images, videos, interactivities – to spark students’ curiosity and imagination.
Helping teachers teach their way
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.
Accessible to every student
Activities organised from lower to higher levels of complexity plus challenge opportunities for those thirsting for more.
Unlock deep insights into performance
With learnON, Jacaranda’s immersive eBook, teachers can unlock deep insights into student and cohort performance.
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Series Features
The latest editions of Jacaranda Retroactive NSW Ac Series include these key features:
- Topics are organised around syllabus content, then structured into subtopics that present sections of content to suit classroom teaching practice
- A focus on historical sources, with accompanying activities, target students’ understanding and application of historical skills and concepts
- Each subtopic ends with an activity bank to further apply students knowledge, skills and concepts as required by the curriculum
- Skillbuilders embedded within topics to help students develop confidence in working with historical sources.
- Review sections check students’ understanding of topics and their ability to apply historical skills and concepts
- Reading content with integrated media provides a dynamic and uninterrupted learning experience
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Formats
Jacaranda provides a range of format options to allow teachers to teach their class their way.
Print
Printed textbook with free digital code insideDigital
learnON is our immersive and flexible digital learning platform.iPad app
Trusted Jacaranda content available online and offline through the iPad appPDF
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Authors
Maureen Anderson
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 Keese
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 Low
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 Harvey
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 Hoepper
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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Offers and complementary products
Jacaranda Bundle Offers
Get Jacaranda Retroactive NSW Ac as part of the Jacaranda Digital Bundle (digital-only) or the Jacaranda Value Bundle (print with digital). These bundles provide trusted, high quality resources, at one low price to meet the unique needs of every New South Wales school.
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myWorld History Atlas is a unique digital atlas that brings to life the content of the printed Jacaranda World History Atlas.
Jacaranda Retroactive NSW Ac series
The Jacaranda Retroactive NSW Ac series is available in a print with digital (learnON) or digital-only format to allow teacher to teach their class, their way. For digital customers, use your resource both online and offline with downloadable PDFs and the iPad app.
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Stage 4
Digital
Title: Jacaranda Retroactive 1 Stage 4 NSW Ac 2e learnON ISBN: 9780730360391 Publication date: November 2017 RRP: $60.00 learnON is the digital platform for students and teachers. Teachers get access to a bank of additional support resources – free!
Digital with Print
Title: Jacaranda Retroactive 1 Stage 4 NSW Ac 2e learnON & Print ISBN: 9780730348009 Publication date: November 2017 RRP: $90.00
($60 plus an additional $30 for print)The best of both worlds! Get full access to learnON and a printed copy for just $30 extra.
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Stage 5
Digital
Title: Jacaranda Retroactive 2 Stage 5 NSW Ac 2e learnON ISBN: 9780730360452 Publication date: November 2017 RRP: $60.00 learnON is the digital platform for students and teachers. Teachers get access to a bank of additional support resources – free!
Digital with Print
Title: Jacaranda Retroactive 2 Stage 5 NSW Ac 2e learnON & Print ISBN: 9780730347705 Publication date: November 2017 RRP: $90.00
($60 plus an additional $30 for print)The best of both worlds! Get full access to learnON and a printed copy for just $30 extra.
Jacaranda Retroactive 2 Stage 5 NSW Ac 2e Topic overview 1: The making of the modern world Topic overview 2: The modern world and Australia Topic 1a: The Industrial Revolution Topic 4a: Rights and freedoms Topic 1b: Movement of peoples Topic 5a: Popular culture Topic 1c: Progressive ideas and movements Topic 5b: The environment movement Topic 2a: Making a nation Topic 5c: Migration experiences Topic 2b: China and the world Topic 6a: The Holocaust Topic 3a: World War I Topic 6b: Australia in the Vietnam War era Topic 3b: World War II
What are teachers saying about the Jacaranda Retroactive series?
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“It is a fantastic resource and immeasurably compliments my teaching style. Turns my lessons from pedestrian to dynamic and interesting. ”
ROBERT MULDER
Head of Department, Rivermount College -
“[Jacaranda resources] are the best we had ever used.”
CHRISTINE PETERSON
Librarian, The Scots PGC College