A new history mystery for years 6,8 & 9 ready for 2021 school year!
CASE STUDY OVERVIEW
This History Mystery is a multimedia educational resources designed to introduce students to a number of areas of the curriculum that they can study in their history courses at Years 6, 8 and 9:
- Black Death in the 14th century, and in an English plague village in 1666
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas in the first half of the 1500s
- Smallpox disaster in Sydney 1789
- Plague in Sydney 1900
- Influenza pandemic in Australia 1919
Interactive website
The website comprises the following resources:
- Teachers’ Notes
The Teachers’ Notes set out a series of steps as an approach to using this resource in the classroom. The suggested approach may be done as a whole-class activity or with small groups tackling different activities and reporting their findings back to the class. - Video
The video incorporates an introduction to each of the topics above, designed to identify the key aspects of each, and to engage students’ interest in it. - Student Online Activities
There is also a set of on-line activities to help students understand and focus on the key concepts involved in their study, to start developing hypotheses about it, and a template page that students complete to help summarise their findings about plagues in history.