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Hey History!
by UTS Impact Studios
For kids age 8-12, a series on Australian history with stories and music. For teachers, a professional learning series called Hey History Teacher!Season 1 follows Stage 2 and 3 of the Australian curriculum, and of NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland. Students can listen in class and use our Learning Materials designed and road-tested by a primary school educator.Go back in time to the Gold Rush. What happened at the meetings between Captain Cook and First Nations people at Kamay Botany Bay? Experience life as a convict kid, and hear how First Nations people learn on Country.Season 2 is for teachers, teacher-educators and pre-service teachers. hear conversations and advice about over 8 episodes, including teaching difficult histories, creative history teaching, approaching First Nations histories with care and confidence, complexity in history teaching, advice for new history teachers, great history teaching, and teaching the Australian Wars.These eight PD episodes are
Episodes
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Teaching The Australian Wars
How do we teach the Frontier Wars with honesty, care, and confidence? You'll hear from filmmaker Rachel Perkins, leading academic and advocate Professor Marcia Langton, Culture is Life CEO Belinda Duarte, senior secondary history teacher Bill Lewis, and Professor Melitta Hogarth of Ngarrngga at...
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Teaching First Nations history
Nearly half of Australian teachers say they don't feel confident to teach First Nations history, according to research. Historian and educator Associate Professor Al Fricker explains why so many teachers feel underprepared — and why it's not a personal failing. He offers some straightforward…
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More than facts: teaching complexity in history
You know history is complex. How do you teach that in the classroom? We unpack what 'complexity' in history means and how to bring it to life for your students. As history educator Jonathon Dallimore puts it, “Factual information… is not sufficient. Information doesn’t guarantee that you actually...
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Teaching difficult histories
Practical strategies to help you confidently teach history involving trauma and conflict. You’ll learn how to: build trust use different techniques so everyone can ask a question respond to challenging or confronting student questions support students with personal connections to the content use...
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*Really* creative history teaching
Want to try creative history lessons that students won’t forget? Hear expert teachers bring history alive in the classroom. From 'Top Secret' source investigations and historical group chats, to escape rooms, courtroom trials, video games, and history festivals. Ideas that spark curiosity, deepen...
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Creative history teaching
What actually works when it comes to creative history teaching? In this episode of Hey History Teacher, we go inside real classrooms to find out - from songs and dress-ups to protest reenactments, and even stomping on a cardboard box. You’ll hear from experienced primary and secondary school...
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Advice for new history teachers
Starting out as a history teacher can feel overwhelming. How do you manage a classroom, cover the syllabus, and help students make sense of the past - all at the same time? Experienced history educators from across Australia share practical advice for teachers who are new to the subject. From...
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What is great history teaching?
What does great history teaching look like? Is it passion for the past? Creativity in the classroom? The courage to follow students’ questions - even when it means throwing out the lesson plan? Historian Anna Clark speaks with experienced teachers and university educators from across Australia...
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Introducing... Hey History Teacher!
What does great history teaching look like in practice? How do teachers handle the challenges with teaching history today? Hear practical ideas, fresh inspiration and thoughtful conversation about how history is taught in primary and secondary school classrooms in Australia. Hey History Teacher!…
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7. Walk for truth-telling
Have you ever told the truth but it felt like no one listened? This episode is all about truth-telling. Hey History! follows Travis Lovett, a proud Gunditjmara/Kerrupmara man and Commissioner at the Yoorrook Justice Commission, on a 400km 'Walk for Truth' across Victoria. Who is Travis Lovett…
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6. What can objects tell us about the past? Live at Adelaide Writers Festival
In this special live recording of Hey History! host Axel Clark asks historians Clare Wright, Anna Clark and Kiera Lindsey what historical objects can tell us about the past? What can a piece of ochre tell us about Australia’s Deep Time History? And what about a pair of South Australian pink…
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5. How to talk with kids about Australian history
How do you teach and talk about Australian history with kids? This is a bonus episode for teachers, carers and parents featuring Professor Anna Clark and Professor Clare Wright. Teaching and talking about history with kids can be rewarding and challenging. From their experience studying and...
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4. Gold fever
What were the Gold Rushes? Why did people from all over the world get ‘gold fever’? What was life like on the Ballarat goldfields of Victoria, on Wada Wurrung Country? With so many different groups of people, how did everyone get along? Did First Nations people mine gold too? What was the Eureka...
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3. Convict kids
Why did kids get transported from Britain to Australia? What were their crimes? Did they miss their families? What was life like as a convict in Van Dieman’s Land, an open air prison on Palawa land? Students from Princes Street Primary School in Hobart tell us what they know about convict kids....
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2. First meetings at Kamay Botany Bay
In 1770, Captain Cook got secret instructions to find the ‘Great South Land’. His ship The Endeavour sailed into Kamay Botany Bay, the land of the Gweagal people. How did the Gweagal people meet Captain Cook and his crew? How did they communicate? What happened over the eight days that Captain…
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1. The Oldest Classroom
How did First Nations people learn before books, school and the internet? What are some of the teaching places on Country? Can a cave or a beach be a classroom? What’s the role of rock art, like engravings, stencils and prints, in the ‘oldest classroom’? What are the different kinds of classrooms...
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Introducing... Hey History!
A podcast all about Australian history where the kids ask the questions. Go back in time to the Gold Rush. What happened at the meetings between Captain Cook and First Nations people at Kamay Botany Bay? Experience life as a convict kid, and hear how First Nations people learn on Country. Each...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
For kids age 8-12, a series on Australian history with stories and music. For teachers, a professional learning series called Hey History Teacher!Season 1 follows Stage 2 and 3 of the Australian curriculum, and of NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland. Students can listen in class and use our Learning Materials designed and road-tested by a primary school educator.Go back in time to the Gold Rush. What happened at the meetings between Captain Cook and First Nations people at Kamay Botany Bay? Experience life as a convict kid, and hear how First Nations people learn on Country.Season 2 is for teachers, teacher-educators and pre-service teachers. hear conversations and advice about over 8 episodes, including teaching difficult histories, creative history teaching, approaching First Nations histories with care and confidence, complexity in history teaching, advice for new history teachers, great history teaching, and teaching the Australian Wars.These eight PD episodes are
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For kids age 8-12, a series on Australian history with stories and music. For teachers, a professional learning series called Hey History Teacher!Season 1 follows Stage 2 and 3 of the Australian curriculum, and of NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland. Students can listen in class and use...
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Hey History! is created and hosted by UTS Impact Studios.
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