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discuss perspectives related to objects, people, places and events (AC9HS1S04)

Elaborations
  • comparing students’ daily lives with those of their parents, grandparents, elders or a familiar older person and identifying which aspects of the past they would or would not want to experience
  • sharing personal preferences about their world (for example, their favourite weather, activities, places, celebrations, objects from the past) and explaining why they are favoured
General capabilities
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
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School transport in Darwin, 1951

  • TLF-IDR2655
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; History
  • Year levels 1; 2
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This is a black-and-white photograph of a group of primary school girls boarding a school bus in Darwin supervised by a young man who is probably a teacher. The bus appears to be a converted cattle truck and is parked on a street in front of a bush background. The image and accompanying detail offer rich opportunities for ...

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Students and school bus

  • TLF-IDR2225
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 1; 2
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This is a photograph of school students inside and in front of a school bus on the Westridge, Cotter, Stromlo service in Canberra in 1926. The image and accompanying detail offer rich opportunities for primary source analysis.

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A sustainable future – Foundation, Yr 1 – 2

  • TLF-IDA009529
  • Learning areasScience; Humanities and Social Sciences; Design and Technologies
  • Year levels F; 1
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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In this learning sequence, students explore Australian sea lions and then create a book to educate others about what sea lions need for a sustainable future.

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Rippon Lea Working life: Then and now

  • TLF-IDA008902
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels F; 1; 2
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This resource includes a series of videos comparing the experience of work at the turn of the 20th century at Rippon Lea Historic Mansion with similar occupations that people do today. Students will watch the videos to gain an understanding of historical perspective, empathy and continuity and change over time. The resource ...

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Objects of Adornment

  • TLF-IDA008235
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Visual Arts; Humanities and Social Sciences; Dance
  • Year levels F; 1; 2
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Students explore a portrait of two historical princesses and consider the adornments they both wear. Each student compares these adornments to the decorative objects worn by a woman in his or her own life and sketches a portrait of that woman, focusing on the objects of adornment she wears.

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Significance of time

  • TLF-IDA005094
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 1; 2
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This learning sequence comprised of two short historical inquiries. In Inquiry 1, students use a photograph of a special family celebration to describe a past event and its significance. In Inquiry 2, students sequence the months of the year and plot significant dates by month on a yearly calendar. They use language that ...

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The Old Man and the Penguin

  • TLF-IDA008041
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences; Science
  • Year levels 1; 2
  • Updated20/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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The resources on this webpage are designed to support and enhance use of the picture book ‘The Old Man and the Penguin’ which is a true story about a man who saves an oil covered penguin and the friendship that they subsequently develop. The associated resources include a YouTube link to a recording of the book, a lesson ...

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Storytime maps

  • TLF-IDA006274
  • Learning areasEnglish; Humanities and Social Sciences; Mathematics
  • Year levels F; 1; 2
  • Updated20/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This activity uses well-known stories to introduce the concept of place and mapping, promoting interdisciplinary learning between English, Geography and Mathematics. Students describe story settings, classify types of places and create maps using directional language to describe features on a map. This resource is one of ...

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Rainy day fieldwork

  • TLF-IDA006273
  • Learning areasMathematics; Humanities and Social Sciences; Science
  • Year levels F; 1; 2
  • Updated20/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This activity involves an outdoor fieldtrip that can be performed on a day after it has stopped raining. Students survey and observe a location on the school grounds and create a map to show what they have discovered. This resource is one of ten digital geographic resources from GeoFoundations for F-6, to develop geographical ...

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Earth’s alphabet

  • TLF-IDA006272
  • Learning areasScience; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels F; 1; 2
  • Updated20/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This activity introduces students to Earth’s many environments. Students explore the concepts of place and environment as they take a virtual tour of Earth, using Google Earth. This resource is one of ten digital geographic resources from GeoFoundations for F-6, to develop geographical skills and understanding using cross-curricula ...

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Using picture books for intercultural understanding

  • TLF-IDA005097
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated20/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This resource supports the integration of picture books into Geography and History teaching and programming. It explains how the use of picture books can develop intercultural understandings and knowledge of a range of perspectives and contexts.

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Changes over time: Family life, technology, significant local sites

  • TLF-IDA005093
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 1; 2
  • Updated20/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This webpage hosts several learning sequences that include student workbooks and a variety of tasks building historical concepts and skills. The first sequence provides opportunities for students to explore differences in family structures and roles today, and how these have changed or remained the same over time. The second ...

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My school grounds

  • TLF-IDA005088
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels F; 1
  • Updated20/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This geographical inquiry process will identify the importance of places that students belong to and why they are special. Through investigation of a local geographical issue, students will examine why people need to take care for these places. This learning is shaped by four small inquiries, which vary in length. Many ...

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Civics in Pictures

  • TLF-IDA004572
  • Learning areasHumanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 1; 2; 3; 4
  • Updated20/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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This site lists picture books that can be used as a springboard for discussion and activities about topics such as sustainable living, more effective learning spaces, media literacy, and positive action towards inclusion. The site hosts teaching suggestions and activity sheets for each picture book.

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School in the 1940s

  • TLF-IDM017882
  • Learning areasHumanities and social sciences; History
  • Year levels 1; 2; 3
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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Imagine going to school in the 'olden days' (the 1940s). Find out what morning assembly looked like. Discover the things that children kept in their desks and what they used to do their writing. This clip shows you what school was like in the past as two adults (actors Terry Norris and Carmel Millhouse) remember what they ...

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Chequerboard: First day jitters

  • TLF-IDM018094
  • Learning areasHumanities and social sciences; History
  • Year levels 1
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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What was the first day of school like for your parents? This clip shows a group of children arriving at school with their parents in 1974.

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Chequerboard: What's for lunch on the first day of school?

  • TLF-IDM018095
  • Learning areasHumanities and social sciences; History
  • Year levels 1
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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It's Shelley's first day of school and her mum shows her what's packed in her lunch box. Find out what school lunches looked like in 1974.

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This Day Tonight: Playgrounds, billycarts and hot rods

  • TLF-IDM018394
  • Learning areasHumanities and social sciences; History
  • Year levels 1; 2
  • Updated30/04/2026
  • AC version 8
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Discover what school holidays were like for children in the past. In this black-and-white clip, a reporter asks some school children how they feel about holidays. Find out what kinds of things children did on their holidays when your parents and grandparents were your age.

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Victa advertising leaflet, 1957 - asset 1

  • TLF-IDR5700
  • Learning areasEnglish; History; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated30/04/2026

This is a black-and-white with green advertising leaflet for Victa lawnmowers from 1957. It contains several paragraphs of text describing the features and advantages of the product. To the left of the text is a photograph of a smiling woman, wearing shorts, sandals and lipstick, using the mower. The text above her says, ...

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Victa newspaper advertisement, 1960 - asset 1

  • TLF-IDR5705
  • Learning areasEnglish; History; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated30/04/2026

This is a black-and-white newspaper advertisement for Victa mowers from 1960. The advertisement has a caption at the top which reads, 'Golf? Sure! Just give me ten minutes to turn grass into lawn with a Victa'. The brand name and the word 'golf' feature most prominently. The main picture shows two men, one at the centre ...

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