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NESA / History / Historical skills / Analysis and use of sources

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Into the Unknown Change Preview Unit
Australian Symbols: Research About Symbols · Learning Opportunities Your students will learn about important Australian symbols by studying posters that other students created during the previous task.
Habit of Mind: Gathering Data Through All Senses · Pretesting and Familiarisation Your students will be introduced to the habit of 'Gathering Data Through All Senses'.
Changes In Our Community · Learning Opportunities Your students will learn to identify and describe continuity and change as they study historic buildings in their local area.
Australian Symbols: Creating A Poster · Learning Opportunities Your students will work in pairs to create a poster about an important Australian symbol.

First Contact Community Preview Unit
Cultures of The First Peoples of Australia · Learning Opportunities Your students will be immersed into the cultures and traditional lifestyles of the First Peoples of Australia.
A Convict's Life: Reasons for the Journey · Learning Opportunities Your students will research stories of convicts who were on the First Fleet.
Researching an Artefact: Europeans · Learning Opportunities Your students will work in pairs to design an artefact that a convict or marine would have used in their day-to-day life and write a journal entry from the perspective of this person.
Future Action · Future Action and Independent Inquiry Your students will develop a plan to research a community group.
Pretest · Pretesting and Familiarisation Your students will complete a pretest about being a historian and what we know about what life was like in the past.

The Blue Marble Sustainability Preview Unit
National Park Excursion · Learning Opportunities Your students will go on an excursion to a national park.
Planning An Independent Inquiry · Future Action and Independent Inquiry Your students will plan an inquiry into an aspect of this unit that they would like to learn more about.
Conducting An Independent Inquiry · Future Action and Independent Inquiry Your students will practise the skills of questioning, research and working independently as they conduct an inquiry into a topic that they have learnt about during this unit.