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analyse cause and effect, and evaluate patterns of continuity and change (AC9HH10S05)

Elaborations
  • identifying the various manifestations or effects of an event in different geographical locations, using interactive timelines
  • organising a range of primary sources in chronological order to support the development of a historical argument about significant causes
  • explaining the links between the main ideas, actions and individuals of an event, and drawing links between them by placing them in sequence; for example, sequencing the Freedom Rides campaigns in the USA and Australia, and explaining the links between the 2 campaigns
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Causality,  Chronological order,  Historical periods,  Reasoning

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Australia's war history

  • TLF-IDA010121
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 9; 10
  • Updated07/05/2026
  • AC version 8
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This learning module provides an overview of Australia’s war history, focusing primarily on the First and Second World Wars, with an emphasis on events in Europe and the Asia–Pacific regions. It provides a broad contextual overview of these conflicts while also including personal stories from a smaller group of individuals ...

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From Sand to Celluloid - Two Bob Mermaid, 1996: 'Swimmin' ... that's for white fellas'

  • TLF-IDR7644
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This clip shows Koorine (Carrie Prosser), a young Indigenous girl whose Indigenous identity is unknown to her school friends. Koorine lives in 1957 in a rural town where Aboriginal people are excluded from the swimming pool. After a race in the pool Koorine and her friend decide to enter a swimming carnival. In subsequent ...

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Australia Today - Man-Eater, 1939: 'Silent terror of the deep'

  • TLF-IDR7642
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This clip shows lifesaving practices on a busy Sydney beach in the 1930s, and includes an intertitle describing sharks as the 'silent terror of the deep'. Footage of lifesaving equipment on the beach is shown as the narrator describes the beach, lifesaving practices and the dangers of the surf. Towards the end of the clip ...

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Fun in the waves, Manly Beach, 1956

  • TLF-IDR2881
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This is a black-and-white photograph of people at the 'children's end' of Manly Beach, Sydney, in 1956. About a dozen people are surfing an oncoming wave, some riding it on Li-Los. Other people are wading in the shallows. Buildings and trees are in the background.

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Crowd at Manly Beach, 1965

  • TLF-IDR2206
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This is a colour photograph of Manly Beach, Sydney, taken in 1965, showing people engaged in a variety of activities including sunbaking and walking on the beach, with some people in boats. Colourful umbrellas, folding deckchairs and an inflated lilo can be seen. Flags indicate a safe swimming area. A cement retaining wall ...

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Four Corners: Surf culture hits Australia in the 1960s

  • TLF-IDM018113
  • Learning areasHistory; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated30/04/2026
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How did surf culture change Australian popular culture? Rock music and the concept of the 'teenager' had arrived in Australia in the 1950s but in the 1960s the surfboard gave rise to a new youth subculture. This clip from 1964 explores conflict in the water and cultural changes that came with the rise of the 'surfie'.

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The Holocaust explained

  • TLF-IDA009663
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 5; 6; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This video provides an introductory overview of the Holocaust. Students will gain an understanding of the leadership in Germany after WWI, life for Jewish people and the persecution experienced during WWII, and how the Holocaust ended. The video includes a series of questions to discuss broader themes such as empathy, justice, ...

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Forms of Government: Change

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  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; Civics and Citizenship; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This resource supports students in analysis of some of the various factors that influence revolutions, using several brief case studies. They then analyse the ways in which governments can change in response to global issues like marriage equality, climate change, and income inequality. The resource includes a Guided Reading ...

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Humanitarian Intervention in South Sudan in 2014: A simulation activity

  • TLF-IDA008007
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; Civics and Citizenship; History
  • Year levels 10; 11; 12
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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In this simulation activity, students will learn about the UN Security Council, as well as meeting these learning outcomes specific to this simulation such as learning about the history of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. They will consider whether the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine should apply ...

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Being seen and heard in the 70s

  • TLF-IDA007708
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History; English
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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Via this resource, students will learn to think critically about the impact of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s on current societal attitudes and beliefs about the LGBTIQ+ community.

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Australian women in war: service, courage and care

  • TLF-IDA007685
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
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This book explores the roles Australian women have carried out during wartimes and examines their relationship with societal change. Topics include the Boer War, World Wars I and II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and peacekeeping operations. Students are prompted to develop their source analysis skills and are also offered ...

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History EDge episode 12: Methods of presenting and sharing your work

  • TLF-IDA006646
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 7; 8; 9; 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This video offers suggestions for finding the right medium to share historical work. It explains the advantages of written, audio, visual, or multimedia methods, and ways in which digital tools might be mobilised. The resource is part of the video series, History EDge: How to do great historical inquiry projects, developed ...

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Australia and the Vietnam War

  • TLF-IDA006595
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10; 11
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This book looks at Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War including the context for entering the war. The stories of the men and women who served there are used as ways to investigate the conflict. Those stories relate to frontline experiences and the influence of the home front on the war. Media coverage of the conflict ...

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Australian media and the Vietnam War: Great Debates

  • TLF-IDA006580
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10; 11
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This classroom resource presents the motion that the Australian media influenced the general public's perceptions of the Vietnam War. Students can use the background information and source material to explore the topic and debate the motion from either the affirmative or negative point of view.

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Australian service in Indonesia after the Second World War

  • TLF-IDA006519
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; Civics and Citizenship; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This resource documents the work of the Australian Defence Force in Indonesia from 1947 to 2005. Students are introduced to the colonial and imperial background to this work and then its history via the topics: Indonesia 1947 (the beginnings of modern peacekeeping and the United Nations), the Indonesian Confrontation (1962-1966), ...

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Migration experiences: defining moments, 1945–present

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  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This module provides resources and interactive classroom activities for examining immigration to Australia since 1945. Students investigate continuities and changes in migration patterns and learn about the reasons for these patterns. The resource consists of 17 activities organised into four investigations: ‘waves’ of ...

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Second World War: defining moments, 1939–1945

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  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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Popular culture: defining moments, 1945–present

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  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This module provides resources and interactive classroom activities for learning about popular culture in Australia. Students investigate the nature of popular culture before and after 1945, identify features of continuity and change, and analyse the role of popular culture in society. The resource consists of eight activities ...

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Learn)

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  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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Depth study 3 – Australians at war (part 2) World War II (1939-1945)

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  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 10
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This is a student-led history learning sequence, where students review the causes of the World War II, why men enlisted and where Australians fought. Students create a series of pages (digital or paper) to explain the chronology of events or problems from the end of World War I in 1918 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

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