5-7

• Introduction to Historical Concepts.
• Personal History – Time Capsule
• Personal History – Autobiography and Family History
• Whaling
• Gold Rush – 1850s Australia
• Gallipoli
• Federation
• Indigenous Australian History
• Victorian England
• Olympics/Commonwealth Games/World Cup
• Current Affairs
• Countries of the World
• Ancient Societies – Greece, Rome, Ancient China, Ancient Egypt.

Year 8-10 - AUSTRALIA…Living on the Rim 

• Local History…early settlement, White occupation and historic buildings and history of the Mortlake area.
• Indigenous history including local Framlingham Aboriginal settlement
• Kanawinka…the Western Districts Volcanic Plains Geopark.

Year 8-10 - ASIA… From Samurai to Superpower.

• Geography of Asia.
• Medieval Japan and Bushido, the cult of the Samurai.
• Meiji Restoration and the modernization of Japan.
• World War 2: Japanese invasion of South East Asia, Pearl Harbour, Burma Railways and Japanese concentration camps, Iwo Jima and Hiroshima.

Year 8-10 - SOUTH of the MEDITERRANEAN….Africa and the Middle East

• Introducing the geography of Africa and the Middle East
• Ancient Egypt… the story of Moses and Rameses.
• Apartheid in South Africa…. The story of Steve Biko.
• Terrorism….’Fahrenheit 9/11’ and rising terrorism.

Year 8-10 - EUROPE…. Classical Empires to the Nazis.

• What is an Empire?
• The Roman Empire – life under the Romans.
• The Nazi Empire – the Holocaust, life under the Nazis and Nazi propaganda.

Year 8-10 - REVOLUTION to  NEW MILLENIUM  ISSUES

• What is a revolution?
• Who rules? The politics of power.
• Elections and political parties.
• Investigation of revolutionary change.

Year 8-10 - THE AMERICAS

• The geography of the Americas.
• Investigation of the life and culture of tribal Indians in North America.
• Exploration of North America and the development of the 13 colonies.
• The coming of Europeans and the effect on Indian culture.

Year 8-10 - CONFLICT – Twentieth Century Issues and Conflicts

• Mapping major conflicts of the 20th century.
• Planning: issues that divide us: race, religion, social and political inequality, politics and independence, environment, resources, poverty.
• Civil Rights movement in America.
• Australian Indigenous issues and land rights.
• Terrorism and the Middle East.
• Resources, global warming and the environment.

Year 8-10 - OCEANS – A Nautical History of the World

• Our oceanic geography of the world: currents, trenches, mysteries of the deep.
• Environmental issues: changing ice caps, global warming, fishing, whaling.
• Ancient history: Voyages of Jason and the Argonauts, the Atlantis myth.
• Medieval world: the Vikings, voyages to discover the New World, Columbus.
• Piracy and pirates: the Caribbean Sea, famous pirates and the development of a myth, modern   piracy.
• New World discoveries: Australia’s discovery and settlement, shipwrecks and exploration of Antarctica.