Painting during the French Revolution Click here to find accompanying teaching resources for this episode at Amped up learning Click here to find accompanying teaching resources for this episode at Teachers Pay Teachers If you have ever seen a painting of Marie Antionette, you might be picturing her with graceful poise, holding a soft pink […]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFdcEhw36IQ Click here for teaching resources from Amped up learning Click here for Teaching resources from Teachers Pay Teachers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are warned that the following post contains descriptions of deceased Indigenous persons. And I would like to acknowledge the Yugumbeh people, the traditional owners of the land from which this
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Who was Roza Shanina? In 1941 she was a 17 year old kindergarten teacher in the Russian city of Arkhanngelsk, but by 1945 she had earned 2 Order of Glory medals for bravery and a Medal of Courage, she had appeared on the front page of several publications, and killed 59 enemy soldiers, before being
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History Detective is now on YouTube https://youtu.be/kR0-JWZPdmohttps://youtu.be/1oAA5CGo40Ihttps://youtu.be/XI8azUlYVAUhttps://youtu.be/7BfD2bq7Ypk Recommendations for the History Classroom One of the most popular episodes from season one was the Rosa Parks case. It investigates why Rosa Parks was chosen to be the face of the Montgomery Bus Boycott over Claudette Colvin, who was also arrested for refusing to give up her
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A Year 9 World War I Assessment Task For 5 years, I have run a museum assessment task with the Year 9 History students. And every year, the students never fail to surprise and impress me with their dedication, creativity and commitment to commemorating the people who fought in a war almost 100 years before
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How to use the Trove digital archive: Solving a Chernobyl Cheese mystery Click here to find resources for all of the Season 1 episodes on Amped up learning If you are a long-time listener, you would have heard me talk about falling down numerous Trove rabbit holes. In the bicycle face case, the nuclear testing
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History Skills Podcast for Students Click here to find teaching resources for all of the season one episodes on my amped up learning store Today I will be discussing the historical evaluation skill of reliability. But I don’t think this skill should be sidelined to just the study of history, I think it can be
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History Skills Podcast for History Students Click here to find teaching resources for all of the season one episodes at Amped up learning I am going to be discussing about the historical evaluation skill of usefulness. If you are an avid listener of History Detective, you may have noticed, that every now and then, I
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History Detective is Now Available on YouTube https://youtu.be/kR0-JWZPdmohttps://youtu.be/d36f25KNJAshttps://youtu.be/XI8azUlYVAU Why use podcasts in the classroom? Podcasts are amazing! I can’t remember a day in the last 4 years where I haven’t listened to a podcast. In fact, I love them so much that I created my own: History Detective. There is so much content out there,
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The Black Death in Australia in the 1900s Click here for a full resources lesson on TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS Click here for a full resources lesson on Amped Up Learning The first time I heard of the plague coming to Australia was in a cute children’s historical novel called “The Ratcatcher’s Daughter” by Pamela Rushby
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