Historical concepts
Understanding historical significance: Planning document
Planning document to help students structure ideas and thinking about historical contexts and use of evidence.
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What is history?
Using diagrams and metaphors to support the teaching of history concepts.
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Wāhi: place-based education
Place-based education can help students understand and connect with the places they inhabit.
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Tales of significance
Teach historical significance by telling tales of significance. This activity utilises Christine Counsell’s 5 R’s of significance.
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Analysing change and continuity
This resource includes activities that help students develop their understanding about the relationship between change and continuity.
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Cause and consequence quotes
A selection of quotes to support students prepare for the 3.5 Achievement Standard.
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Cause and consequence
The causes and consequences of historical events are of primary interest for historians, and this relationship is an important part of the history curriculum.
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Empathy: Historical empathy
Historical empathy is the concept that history can humanise us and bring us together. If this is true then how can you teach it?
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