History / Year 8 / Historical Skills / Chronology, terms and concepts

• TLF-IDM014417

This is an assessment package that uses the Year 8 Australian Curriculum history achievement standard to gather evidence about how well students have demonstrated what they know, what they understand and what they can do for the depth study 'Expanding Contacts: The Black Death in Asia, Europe and Africa (14th century plague)'. ...

• TLF-IDM017339

Do you have a time machine? If not, how can you be certain that your understanding of history is correct? In this clip from the 1985 documentary 'Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon', reporter Jack Pizzey considers what is known about the Inca Empire. He acknowledges there is much that we can't be sure of. This clip is ...

• TLF-IDM017188

This iPad app is a tool to learn key historical vocabulary using flashcards. The app contains 34 sets of ready-made flashcards that cover key periods and topics in world history, such as the High and Late Middle Ages, Ancient India and China, and the Industrial Revolution. Users are able to make their own flashcards under ...

• TLF-IDM011962

This is a film and accompanying case study about the origin and development of the English language, especially the great number of words it has borrowed from other languages. Beginning with the source Indo-European languages, the film traces the birth and growth of English through the invasions of Britain and subsequent ...

• TLF-IDM007800

This is one of 80 bark paintings in the Saltwater Collection, created by artists of the Yolgnu people of north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. These works highlight the issue of Indigenous land and sea rights and use sacred art to inform balanda (non-Indigenous people) of Aboriginal land ownership, in order ...

• TLF-IDS4967

These seven learning activities focus on discussion using a variety of tools (software) and devices (hardware) and illustrate the ways in which content, pedagogy and technology can be successfully and effectively integrated in order to promote learning. In the activities, teachers facilitate discussion and model questions ...

• TLF-IDM006645

This version of a chasing-and-tagging game originates in the Aurukun Aboriginal community and has been popular and played for as long as most can remember. This game has been frequently played around the streets, in the school at break time and before physical education lessons as a fun warm-up activity. The enthusiasm ...

• TLF-IDM006677

Teams from far and wide gathered at a ‘place of wrestling’ (at Dingulami) in Kabi Kabi territory in south Queensland each year at the time when the bunya nuts were ready. Tingalpa near Brisbane was also a wrestling place. Only one team represented each group attending. Two players came from each part (totem) of a group. ...

• TLF-IDR8605

This black-and-white photograph from the Second World War shows an Australian Military Forces platoon composed exclusively of Aboriginal volunteers. The photograph was taken at Number 9 Camp at Wangaratta in Victoria in December 1940. The soldiers are wearing formal parade attire and holding their bayoneted rifles over ...