Jacaranda World History Atlas for the Australian Curriculum

The Jacaranda World History Atlas is a completely new History atlas designed to meet the requirements of the Australian History Curriculum. This unique resource has been written to meet the learning needs of year 7 – 10 History students. Combining clear, high-impact maps, stimulating sources and engaging activities, the Jacaranda World History Atlas places significant historical events in their geographical and chronological context to help students discover ‘the where of the when’.

KEY FEATURES

• covers all four units of the 7 – 10 Australian Curriculum
• provides invaluable support for the teaching of the Overviews and each of the Depth Studies
• organised into double-page spreads containing detailed sources plus introductory text and a chronology for context
• each spread includes carefully graded activities, based on the maps and sources, designed to develop students’ historical skills
• over 120 specially commissioned full-colour maps
• enriches the teaching of History whatever resources are being used.

eGuideplus - online teacher support
Full teacher support is provided with the Jacaranda World History Atlas eGuidePLUS — an essential companion resource for both the non-History trained and the experienced History teacher.

The eGuidePLUS includes, for each spread:

• teaching advice and additional background information
• suggested learning activities
• answers to all Atlas student activities
• an editable student worksheet
• answers to all eGuidePlus student worksheets as well as
• selected downloadable blackline masters
• advice on using the Working Historically section
• curriculum grids that show at a glance the content descriptors each spread addresses.

The myWorld History Atlas is a unique and innovative digital atlas which contains and enhances all the content of the Jacaranda World History Atlas.

KEY FEATURES

• interactive maps showing change over time, stunning video footage, a three dimensional globe, and interactive timeline containing over 120 historical studies
• the ability to make connections between key events in history, periods of time and regions of the world
• students can track their progress as they gain instant feedback from over 1000 interactive history questions.

Teachers may access both the individual and aggregated class results from the questions using the myWorld History Atlas Teacher edition.