The Story of Australia - History Projects tell the basic history of Australia, from the arrival of the ancient Aboriginal People, to Australian Federation. The programs are also student project resources that encourage students to 'do' and 'make' history in a manner that resembles the historian's craft.
The titles in The Story of Australia - History Project series are...
The Story of Australia - History Projects are interactive computer based teaching aids and student learning resources that are designed for history studies in Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 of the Australian F-10 National History Curriculum.
The programs assist in the development of student’s Historical Knowledge, Understanding and Skills in response to the Key Inquiry Questions for Years 4, 5 and 6 of the F-10 Curriculum.
The Story of Australia - History Projects develop Historical Knowledge and Understanding in Year 4 - First Contacts, Year 5 - The Australian Colonies and Year 6 - Australia as a Nation of the F-10 National History Curriculum.
The programs provide opportunities for learners to develop Historical Understanding through key concepts including sources, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathy and significance.
The Story of Australia - History Project narratives make an excellent introduction to any Australian history studies for learners of any age or grade level, and as project resources, they provide a springboard to more in-depth studies and further inquiry.
The Story of Australia - History Projects are centred on a series of 12 audio-visual document-aries on Australian history that are each from 12 to 15 minutes in length.
The documentaries combine drawings, narration, music and sound effects to give a broad overview of Australian history. The audio-visual narratives place the significant events and important people in the history of Australia in chronological order, from the arrival of the ancient Aboriginal People, to Federation.
The programs are also student project resources that encourage, provide the means for and reward historical research.
Develops Historical Skills in Year 4 - First Contacts, Year 5 - The Australian Colonies and Year 6 - Australia as a Nation of the F-10 National History Curriculum.
Research has shown that learners grapple with the past in much the same way as historians, making sense of it by analysing, ordering and linking events in storied form. The Story of Australia - History Projects encourage students to 'do' and 'make' history in a manner that resembles the historian's craft.
The programs are unique student project resources that challenge learners to create their own versions of the Story of Australia narratives by replacing all, or any, of the drawings in the original programs with images that they have either drawn or painted themselves, or those that they have searched for and chosen as replacements that best illustrate that section of the narratives.
Students can obtain the images from a number of sources, such as the project resources of the school library and the internet, or they can take their photographs or create their own drawings or paintings that depict their personal interpretations of what is being stated in the narrative and insert them into the project.
Following is a list of the Historical Skills used in the process of historical inquiry for years 4, 5 and 6 of the F-10 National History Curriculum, together with an explanation of how the "Story of Australia - History Projects" exercise those Skills.
Chronology, Terms and Concepts
The process of selecting and inserting the images into the program introduces learners to the use of historical methods and procedures, focusing on the interpretation of evidence and the use of narrative to construct accounts of the past, involving them as participants rather than spectators in the study of Australian history.
Analysis and Use of Sources
The search for and selection of the images helps in developing student’s research skills and helps them learn how to reason historically with content and to understand that historical accounts and illustrations of the past may differ or conflict because people select and use evidence in different ways for different purposes.
Historical Questions and Research
Each image in the programs has an accompanying “NOTES” page, which assists learners to develop patterns of historical reasoning by encouraging them to ask questions, foster debate, use evidence to support a position and, understanding that historical and literary dimensions of students' learning are complementary, to communicating that position effectively.
Explanations and Communication
The NOTES pages encourage students to analyse and make judgments regarding the plausibility of the script for that frame of the story, and to analyse and make judgments regarding how well the images depict what is stated in the script and the types of evidence they represent, and to give the reasons for their assessments in writing.
Perspectives and Interpretations
The Story of Australia - History Projects can be used by individual students, by students working together in groups, or by the entire class working on one project. The process of working on the projects fosters debate among the participating students and enables them to exchange ideas, refine points of view, make and justify choices, and appreciate the ideas of others.
Record of Achievement
The completion of a projects gives students a feeling of accomplishment and builds a sense of pride in their achievement, which, due to the powerful impact that the images have on the meaning of the story and how it is perceived by viewers, creates an audio-visual narrative that gives their personal interpretation of an important period in Australia’s history.
With the unlimited site licence version of the program, students can load the program onto their personal computers and work on it from there. Then, on completion of the program, students can burn a copy to CD-ROM for a permanent record of their accomplishment.
Teachers’ Assessment
The programs also contain an assessment page where teachers can communicate with the students while they are working on a program and offer guidance and constructive criticisms if required, and where they can provide an assessment of the student’s work on completion of a project. Each assessment session is automatically dated and saved and can be exported as a text file or printed for archival purposes.
The programs have teachers' guides, comprehensive program tutorials, student review sheets, a list of further learning activities and an interactive review to reinforce student comprehension.
The programs have teachers' guides, comprehensive program tutorials, student review sheets, a list of further learning activities and an interactive review to reinforce student comprehension.
Easy Program Setup and Operation
The programs have easy to follow tutorials that guide you through the simple process of setting up and working on a new project. A new project is started by simply copying it from the CD-ROM and pasting it onto a drive of your computer. The programs contain all the functions that are required for the student’s operation and the teacher’s assessment of a project.
The replacement of the original drawings in the documentaries with images of the student’s own choosing is a very easy process that requires students to simply prepare any images that they wish to import into the documentaries in jpeg format, and then load them into the images folders that are provided in the programs.
The names of the images will appear in the Image Lists in the Import menu of the programs and, when an image is selected a thumbnail of the image appears in the viewer window and, when the Import button is clicked, the program imports the image and automatically re sizes it to fit. The imported images are saved when the programs are quit and the new images will be used when the programs are reopened and played.
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The Story of Australia - History Projects for Windows
Vol 1 - Discovery History Project CD-Rom with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 1 - Discovery History Project CD-Rom with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 2 - First Fleet History Project CD-Rom with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 2 - First Fleet History Project CD-Rom with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 3 - Convicts Image History CD-Rom with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 3 - Convicts History Project CD-Rom with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 4 - Reign of Rum History Project CD-Rom with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 4 - Reign of Rum History Project CD-Rom with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 5 - Macquarie Years History Project CD-Rom with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 5 - Macquarie Years History Project with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 6 - Early Explorers History Project with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 6 - Early Explorers History Project with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 7 - Squatters History Project with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 7 - Squatters History Project with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 8 - New Colonies History Project with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 8 - New Colonies History Project with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 9 - The Gold Rush History Project with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 9 - The Gold Rush History Project with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 10 - The Bushrangers History Project with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 10 - The Bushrangers History Project with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 11 - The Inland Explorers History Project with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 11 - The Indland Explorers History Project with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
Vol 12 - Federation History Project with a single computer site licence, school price $50.00
Vol 12 - Federation History Project with an unlimited site licence, school price $100.00
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