Jacaranda
The Jacaranda History Alive series is written by practising teachers and passionate subject experts and includes a wealth of resources across multiple formats designed to spark students’ curiosity, build skills, and empower teachers to teach their class their way.
Lessons by Victoria’s best teachers
A selection of video lessons delivered by passionate subject teachers bring History topics to life to complement and enrich the classroom experience.
Unmatched teacher support – teachON
Practical teaching advice, teacher-led videos and lesson plans, designed to save time and provide inspiration and support for teachers.
Thinking Big research projects
Thinking Big research projects for every topic provide opportunities for students to delve deeper, think creatively and work collaboratively.
Focus on skills – SkillBuilders
Jacaranda’s award-winning SkillBuilders develop students’ skills in an engaging and accessible way. Delivered through our proven Tell me, Show me, Let me do it! approach and available in every topic.
Five new Victorian Humanities series
We have published a complete suite of Humanities resources, giving you the flexibility of a complete package or individual subjects – the choice is yours!
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Series features
The latest editions of the Jacaranda History Alive VC series include these key features:
- teachON – video lessons by Victoria’s best teachers, teaching advice and lesson plans
- learnON – our most powerful digital learning platform
- An immersive digital platform in which students and teachers are connected
- Rich media, including videos and interactives, to engage and inspire
- Immediate, corrective feedback for students and an in-built testmaker for teachers to create assignments from a large pool of questions for immediate, spaced and mixed practice.
- Results reported against skills and content allow unmatched visibility of students’ progress.
- Thinking Big research projects – creative, imaginative, collaborative activities
- SkillBuilders – Tell me, Show me, Let me do it!
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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
Robert Darlington
Anne Low
Benjamin Rood
Yasmine McCafferty
Allen Kerr
Graeme Smithies
Isabella Webster
Ashley Wood
Luke Jackson
Nicholas Hughes
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Offers and complementary products
Jacaranda Bundle Offers
Get Jacaranda History Alive VC as part of the Jacaranda Value Bundle (print with digital) or the Jacaranda Digital Bundle (digital-only). These bundles provide trusted, high quality resources, at one low price to meet the unique needs of every Victorian school.
Jacaranda World History Atlas
myWorld History Atlas is a unique digital atlas that brings to life the content of the printed Jacaranda World History Atlas.
See it for yourself! Get full teacher digital access for 90 days:
Jacaranda History Alive VC series
The Jacaranda History Alive Victorian Curriculum series is available in a print with digital (learnON) or digital-only format to allow teachers 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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Year 7
Digital
Title: Jacaranda History Alive 7 Victorian Curriculum 2E learnON ISBN: 9780730378556 Publication date: October 2019 RRP: $40.00 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 History Alive 7 Victorian Curriculum 2E learnON & Print ISBN: 9780730378518 Publication date: November 2019 RRP: $70.00
($40 plus an additional $30 for print)The best of both worlds! Get full access to learnON and a printed copy for just $30 extra.
To view content, simply click on the chapter link in green and the PDF will open up in a separate browser tab.
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Year 8
Digital
Title: Jacaranda History Alive 8 Victorian Curriculum 2E learnON ISBN: 9780730378723 Publication date: October 2019 RRP: $40.00 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 History Alive 8 Victorian Curriculum 2E learnON & Print ISBN: 9780730378587 Publication date: November 2019 RRP: $70.00
($40 plus an additional $30 for print)The best of both worlds! Get full access to learnON and a printed copy for just $30 extra.
To view content, simply click on the chapter link in green and the PDF will open up in a separate browser tab.
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Year 9
Digital
Title: Jacaranda History Alive 9 Victorian Curriculum 2E learnON ISBN: 9780730380528 Publication date: November 2019 RRP: $40.00 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 History Alive 9 Victorian Curriculum 2E learnON & Print ISBN: 9780730380511 Publication date: January 2020 RRP: $70.00
($40 plus an additional $30 for print)The best of both worlds! Get full access to learnON and a printed copy for just $30 extra.
To view content, simply click on the chapter link in green and the PDF will open up in a separate browser tab.
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Year 10
Digital
Title: Jacaranda History Alive 10 Victorian Curriculum 2E learnON ISBN: 9780730380283 Publication date: November 2019 RRP: $40.00 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 History Alive 10 Victorian Curriculum 2E learnON & Print ISBN: 9780730380276 Publication date: January 2020 RRP: $70.00
($40 plus an additional $30 for print)The best of both worlds! Get full access to learnON and a printed copy for just $30 extra.
To view content, simply click on the chapter link in green and the PDF will open up in a separate browser tab.
What are teachers saying about the Jacaranda History Alive series?
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“Jacaranda is clearly written and covers all topics, skills and understandings thoroughly. The tasks also have a great range of resources to refer to and add breadth and depth to the material already included. It also allows for ease of differentiating tasks.”
MICHELE MACFARLANE
Teacher, Prospect High School -
“We have been using Jacaranda resources as JacPLUS Bookshelf on student iPads for several years now. I find the Humanities textbooks in particular are engaging and of a high quality.”
GAIL STUBS
Curriculum Coordinator, Creek Street Christian College -
“Jacaranda texts have excellent, understandable explanations of core content, and online integration is great.”
ADAM LONIE
Teacher, St. John’s Greek Orthodox College